can't get the pst file from the roaming profile

[balaji]

hello,

i have 2K DC and clients are xp professional its going well two days
before i set a roaming profile for some people on that people cant able to
access the outlook because the pst file is not available in the server. I
search that pst file i can't get that what happen the old pst file in that
outlook. and again i disable the roaming profile this time also same problem
is occer. anyone give the solution for this problem i am very thankful to
him.

thanks and regards,
balaji

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

If I'm not mistaken, the folders that the PST files are in are excluded from
the roaming profile. Best bet would be to establish a profile where the PST
file comes from a network drive, but this doesn't do much good because if
the person goes offsite, they would still be w/out the PST file. Not to
mention the fact that Microsoft doesn't support the use of PST file(s) from
network drives.

/neo

PS - roaming profiles are ideal for exchange only sites.

 

[balaji]

hai neo,
i created a new user in a roaming profile. i configured the outlook for the
first time then its works(iam able to work in roaming) ,but the when i
change the existing user profile to roaming profile iam not able to locate
the pst file of the user.

regards,
balaji

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

That is to be expected because the folder that the PST is in will not be
replicated back to the server. (Basically anything under \documents and
settings\<userid>\local settings is excluded by default from a roaming
profile. PST files are placed here so they don't copy back. Next machine
you logon to, this file is missing and kaboom... No PST.)

/neo

PS - Microsoft does this for a reason. Think of the problems that might
occour... eg. Data corruption, Lengthy logoff to copy large PST files back,
..etc