Proper Laptop Usage

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John E. Crouse

I run an Exchange 2000 server and have numerous traveling users. I am
attempting to setup my romaing users so that they can take all of
their data with them WHILE maintaining a small and efficient database
in Exchange. We use auto-archiving and place the PST file on a network
drive so that the data gets backed up every evening to guard against a
hard drvie crash on the local PC. I have also setup offline folders in
Outlook so that my users have access to their Exchange data while they
are away from the office. The problem is that they don't have access
to the PST data that is store on the network drive. I tried to use
offline folders in Windows Explorer to copy the file local using
synchronization but it errors out telling me that this type of file
(PST) can't be synchronized. What is my best option here?

Thank you,
John E. Crouse
 
do they need access to the contents of the archive while they are traveling?
if they use the data, then a small and efficient database isn't worth a hill
of beans because the data they need isn't in it. The archive should be for
data they don't need regularly but needs to be kept for future reference -
data they won't miss while out of the office.

FWIW, accessing a pst from a network drive can lead to corruption.

if you can't increase the mailbox limits and leave the data in the exchange
store, then copy the pst to the hard drive and keep copies on the server so
it's in the backup.
 
Well, here's my solution. I will take everyones advice that a
networked PST is bad and place the PST in the root of the C drive. I
will auto-archive everything to it. I will name it using the
convention "username_archive.pst". I will then create a group in the
Domain called "Laptop_Users". Then during login (I use svar-dos and
Kixtart) I will use an "IF" statement to determine if the are in the
"Laptop_Users" group and if so copy the PST file to their "H" drive
using the username variable and concatination to get the file. Do you
see and problems with this? It seems to be working good with my test
user.

Thanks,
John


Diane Poremsky said:
do they need access to the contents of the archive while they are traveling?
if they use the data, then a small and efficient database isn't worth a hill
of beans because the data they need isn't in it. The archive should be for
data they don't need regularly but needs to be kept for future reference -
data they won't miss while out of the office.

FWIW, accessing a pst from a network drive can lead to corruption.

if you can't increase the mailbox limits and leave the data in the exchange
store, then copy the pst to the hard drive and keep copies on the server so
it's in the backup.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





John E. Crouse said:
I run an Exchange 2000 server and have numerous traveling users. I am
attempting to setup my romaing users so that they can take all of
their data with them WHILE maintaining a small and efficient database
in Exchange. We use auto-archiving and place the PST file on a network
drive so that the data gets backed up every evening to guard against a
hard drvie crash on the local PC. I have also setup offline folders in
Outlook so that my users have access to their Exchange data while they
are away from the office. The problem is that they don't have access
to the PST data that is store on the network drive. I tried to use
offline folders in Windows Explorer to copy the file local using
synchronization but it errors out telling me that this type of file
(PST) can't be synchronized. What is my best option here?

Thank you,
John E. Crouse
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