Problem with group policy applying "Default location for PST files"

[Jaycee]

I'm trying to set the default location for PST files to a drive letter with
a group policy:

(User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office
Outlook 2003 -> Miscellaneous -> PST Settings -> Default Location for PST
files)

However, it doesn't appear that the policy ever applies to the user. I can
run rsop.msc on the client machine and it has the correct setting but when I
open Outlook to view the setting it has not changed.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You realize that policy doesn't affect any existing .pst files? What it does do is change the location that Outlook will use when it needs to create a new default .pst file for a new profile. The way to test it is to create a new profile without an Exchange account in it.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers