New pst file is created after network outage..

[Geir Holmavatn]

Hi,

We have some users' Outlook .pst files in the users' file server home
folder. If there has been a network problem and Outlook did not find
the .pst file, a new and empty .pst file is created.

How can we avoid that a new .pst file is automatically created in the
cases when Outlook cannot find the default one?

Thanks for comments on this

regards

Geir

 

[Gordon]

Hi,

We have some users' Outlook .pst files in the users' file server home
folder.

You do realise that Microsoft does NOT support pst files on network drives
for precisely this reason?

 

[Geir Holmavatn]

You do realise that Microsoft does NOT support pst files on network drives
for precisely this reason?

This practice has been around here from before I started to work here.
The users say they need to access their Outlook mailstore (.pst file)
from other workstations from time to time.

Secondly they want to have a backup of their .pst file on the server in
case of local disk failure.

Any other (and more reliable) solution to these needs as of the
placement / management of .pst files?

regards

Geir

 

[Gordon]

This practice has been around here from before I started to work here. The
users say they need to access their Outlook mailstore (.pst file) from
other workstations from time to time.

Secondly they want to have a backup of their .pst file on the server in
case of local disk failure.

Any other (and more reliable) solution to these needs as of the placement
/ management of .pst files?

regards

Geir

Then the answer is to write a script to place a COPY of the pst file on the
server, not the working one.