pst files located on network share

[Guest]

Our company just recently upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003. In 2000, you
could go to "Services" and add Personal Folder Files that were located on a
network share instead of importing them. I do not see this option in the 2003
version. Does Outlook 2003 support linking to pst files located on network
shares? or do you actually have to import them?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Our company just recently upgraded from Outlook 2000 to 2003. In 2000,
you
could go to "Services" and add Personal Folder Files that were located
on a
network share instead of importing them. I do not see this option in the
2003
version. Does Outlook 2003 support linking to pst files located on
network
shares? or do you actually have to import them?

Outlook does; but Microsoft doesn't. Which is to say you can still do it;
you
just need to go to Tools | Options | Mail Setup | Data Files, but
Microsoft discourages it. Network problems or latency issues could cause
data corruption in your PST file which could be very bad.