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Hal Berenson
Backgrround: We are building a Terminal Server farm and use Roaming
Profiles. When a user logs on to one of the TS we need them to get back
their complete environment. At the moment this is not possible, partially
due to Outlook settings.
The problem we are running into is that Outlook puts .PST files into the
Local Settings\Application Data folder and with Roaming Profiles these don't
roam (meaning they are at best unavailable on other machines and given our
settings they are just deleted when the user logs out). There is a Group
Policy setting for the default PST location and we use it, however this just
applies to user created PST files. Automatically created PST files that act
as cache's for Hotmail or IMAP mail systems still get created in Local
Settings\Application Data. I understand the logic in considering these to
be easily recreatable caches, but the logic is flawed by:
1) Client rules (and who knows what else) are flushed when Outlook discovers
that the PST file is gone. So our users lose the rules on their IMAP mail
accounts every time they logoff.
2) Accessing these files on a share over the network, or having them copied
as part of the roaming profile, is still faster than completely rebuilding
them every time the user runs Outlook for the first time after logging in.
The speed advantage of an SMB file transfer over email protocols is just
tremendous.
So, does anyone know how to get Outlook to store these automatically created
..PST files somewhere other than in Local Settings? Can we get Outlook to
store them according to the default PST location policy settable via the
GPO?
Thanks!
Profiles. When a user logs on to one of the TS we need them to get back
their complete environment. At the moment this is not possible, partially
due to Outlook settings.
The problem we are running into is that Outlook puts .PST files into the
Local Settings\Application Data folder and with Roaming Profiles these don't
roam (meaning they are at best unavailable on other machines and given our
settings they are just deleted when the user logs out). There is a Group
Policy setting for the default PST location and we use it, however this just
applies to user created PST files. Automatically created PST files that act
as cache's for Hotmail or IMAP mail systems still get created in Local
Settings\Application Data. I understand the logic in considering these to
be easily recreatable caches, but the logic is flawed by:
1) Client rules (and who knows what else) are flushed when Outlook discovers
that the PST file is gone. So our users lose the rules on their IMAP mail
accounts every time they logoff.
2) Accessing these files on a share over the network, or having them copied
as part of the roaming profile, is still faster than completely rebuilding
them every time the user runs Outlook for the first time after logging in.
The speed advantage of an SMB file transfer over email protocols is just
tremendous.
So, does anyone know how to get Outlook to store these automatically created
..PST files somewhere other than in Local Settings? Can we get Outlook to
store them according to the default PST location policy settable via the
GPO?
Thanks!