access archive.pst file from old domain user profile

[Joe]

Hello Everyone,
I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
was removed from the domain and added to a peer to peer group properly. The
user originally use to log in to the domain profile and access her Outlook
email.We never manually backed up and exported her pst file from this domain
user account. I have since created a new local user account for the peer to
peer workgroup and transferred her my docs and favorites into it. Is there
a way for me to access and get a default archive.pst copy of her old outlook
contacts and emails from her original domain user profile? I thinking of
using windows explorer, but to not know the actual default outlook archive
path for this file. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Joe

 

[Dave Patrick]

You can import the *.pst

The default store for the *.pst file is;
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

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:
| Hello Everyone,
| I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
| was removed from the domain and added to a peer to peer group properly.
The
| user originally use to log in to the domain profile and access her Outlook
| email.We never manually backed up and exported her pst file from this
domain
| user account. I have since created a new local user account for the peer
to
| peer workgroup and transferred her my docs and favorites into it. Is
there
| a way for me to access and get a default archive.pst copy of her old
outlook
| contacts and emails from her original domain user profile? I thinking of
| using windows explorer, but to not know the actual default outlook archive
| path for this file. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
|
| Joe
|
|

 

[Guest]

I believe that you've got to access the Security properties of this file and
take ownership of it before you can do anything with it.

 

[Vagabond Software]

Hello Everyone,
I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
was removed from the domain and added to a peer to peer group properly.
The user originally use to log in to the domain profile and access her
Outlook email.We never manually backed up and exported her pst file from
this domain user account. I have since created a new local user account
for the peer to peer workgroup and transferred her my docs and favorites
into it. Is there a way for me to access and get a default archive.pst
copy of her old outlook contacts and emails from her original domain user
profile? I thinking of using windows explorer, but to not know the actual
default outlook archive path for this file. Thank you in advance for any
suggestions.

Joe

Dave has responded with the pathname for the PST file. I am responding to
let you know that it will not be that easy if she was an Exchange Server
mail client while on the domain.

If you do not see what you expect in the PST file and there exists, in the
same location, an OST file. Let us know.

Good Luck,

Carl