Outlook PST File

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Using Outlook 97 with MS-Mail. Have many users who are winding up with
the PST file on the desktop. Should be stored in their user folder on
the server to be backed up at night. This is our standard policy. Have
seen where network connection is lost and the profile is gone but the
pst file or a "Temp" PST file being placed on the desktop concerns me.
Has anyone else had the file just show up on the desktop for no
apparent reason? Do realize that the users could be doing this but
first appearance is they aren't. Thanks for any help.

Lance
 
Lance said:
Using Outlook 97 with MS-Mail. Have many users who are winding up with
the PST file on the desktop. Should be stored in their user folder on
the server to be backed up at night.
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OT, but you might want to rethink this. You will likely have performance
problems, and possibly data corruption/loss. MS doesn't support accessing
PST files across a LAN/WAN connection - see
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019
This is our standard policy. Have
seen where network connection is lost and the profile is gone but the
pst file or a "Temp" PST file being placed on the desktop concerns me.
Has anyone else had the file just show up on the desktop for no
apparent reason? Do realize that the users could be doing this but
first appearance is they aren't. Thanks for any help.
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I've never seen this happen, myself, so I'm a bit baffled as well. Again,
this may sound OT, but what I'd suggest is that you store PST files locally
on each user's computer, and setup a backup of some sort to copy the PST
file to the user's home directory via a scheduled batch file or somesuch.

The MS backup utility for PST files is pretty nice, but won't work with your
version of Outlook IIRC - and the newest versions of Outlook (post 2000)
don't support MS Mail. If your company is large enough to justify it (or has
enough need to justify it) you might want to look at exchange server
instead - MS Mail isn't supported anymore, and Exchange offers much more.
SBS is pretty good stuff for small offices.

Sorry I can't be of more help with your specific problem, but I thought
these were worth mentioning....
 
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