Moving pst to a new network location

[Guest]

I'm migrating a 2000 domain to a current 2003 domain. The 2000 domain users
use an H drive as their home drive (personal drive). The 2003 domain users
use an I drive as their home drive (personal drive). Both domains put their
users pst files on their home directories. They want the 2000 domain users to
move thier H drives to now map like the 2003 domain (the I drive) as their
home drive (personal drive). There is about 3500 users in the 2000 domain.
How do I move drive mappings in outlook to point to the new I drive, without
having to do each one individually?

 

[Gordon]

I'm migrating a 2000 domain to a current 2003 domain. The 2000 domain
users
use an H drive as their home drive (personal drive). The 2003 domain users
use an I drive as their home drive (personal drive). Both domains put
their
users pst files on their home directories. They want the 2000 domain users
to
move thier H drives to now map like the 2003 domain (the I drive) as their
home drive (personal drive). There is about 3500 users in the 2000 domain.
How do I move drive mappings in outlook to point to the new I drive,
without
having to do each one individually?

I always thought the Microsoft did NOT support pst files on networked
drives?

 

[Guest]

so how do you back up 15,000 pst files on 15,000 different desktops then?

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Hi Stephen,

maybe a PRF file could be a solution:

Microsoft write:
"The PRF file lets you quickly create or modify MAPI profiles for Outlook
users"

Here a some websites with information about PRF file.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402581033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/ha011384161033.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308300&sd=tech
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/prftips.htm
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/prf.htm

I wouldn´t use a UNC path, because Outlook don´t support UNC paths (my
develeoper always said this to me), so the real network path should be
better then a UNC path for a PST file.

Network PST files are untill now not supported on a network drive, but since
~2001 they were supported by Microsoft. If we will wait 5 years, maybe the
will be supported again in the future.;-)

 

[Gordon]

so how do you back up 15,000 pst files on 15,000 different desktops then?

You didn't mention BACKUPS in your original post........