Application Data redirection - not redirecting all files?

[Jesse]

I have a policy set to redirect users desktop and application data
folders to a share. The test computer is windows XP running Office
2003. The odd thing is the folders are different on the servers vs
what's on the local desktop. The server and desktop also have
different files in the \Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder,
which stores the users archive.pst file.\


The server has the following 2 files in the redirected folder


Default Outlook Profile.xml
Default Outlook Profile.srs


The desktop has these files


archive.pst
extended.pst


Is this behavior by default? Is there a way to get the archive.pst
file to be redirected onto the server using group policy or a transfrom
file with the Office deployment? This is one of the main reasons for
why I am redirecting the application data folder.


Thanks,
Jesse

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a policy set to redirect users desktop and application data
folders to a share. The test computer is windows XP running Office
2003. The odd thing is the folders are different on the servers vs
what's on the local desktop. The server and desktop also have
different files in the \Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder,
which stores the users archive.pst file.\

You are aware, are you not, that PSTs on a network share are unsupported and
can lead to PST corruption?

Default Outlook Profile.xml
Default Outlook Profile.srs

New Windows user profiles will get these. I'm unsure of the purpose of the
former (it appears to be presentation data for the profile named "Default
Outlook Profile"), but the latter contains the send/receive settings for the
profile named "Default Outlook Profile"

The desktop has these files


archive.pst
extended.pst

Those should be in %UserProfile%\Local Setrtings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook and not where you claim them to be. That folder is
the default location chosen whenever a PST is created with File>New>Outlook
Data File or by the Archive function.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The .xml file stores the navigation bar settings for a particular profile.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Jesse]

Thanks for the info on pst's. The folders are where I claim them to
be, I jsut left off "%UserProfile%\Local Setrtings" from the path

How does one plan for new computers when users have archive.pst files
on their local drives? I guess I could have a script run when the
user logs in that copies the pst to a share on the network, then bring
it back down to the new computer, but I would have to do this right
before the computer is replaced (i.e. before the user gets a chance to
open Outlook and archive again).

Any ideas?

 

[Jesse]

Thanks Sue, that's good to know.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks for the info on pst's. The folders are where I claim them to
be, I jsut left off "%UserProfile%\Local Setrtings" from the path

Well, not quite. The .srs and .xml files are in %AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook
(which is
%UserProfile%\Applicatoon Data\Microsoft\Outlook) and the .pst files are in
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

 

[Jesse]

Ahhh, you are correct. Thanks for catching that. I don't think I ever
would have noticed.

Now the question remains on how to get archive.pst files off of the old
PC's and onto the new PC's with any intervertion from a techie actually
at the desktop. I'd call Microsoft and pay $$$ if I wasn't working at
a non-profit, but since I am I'm hoping somebody who has done this
before can answer this in the next few days.