Roaming Profile in Outlook

[Richard Treleaven]

I am trying to set up a roaming profile in a Server 2003 / Exchange
2003 / Outlook 2003 / Windows XP environment.

I set up a GPO for my OU... and did folder redirection for Application
Data. Also did it for MyDocs and Desktop.

I created a user RICH... and logged onto PC1. Setup the Outlook mail
profile from scratch... saved it and logged off.

In my profiles directory on my shared server... I see my roaming
profile and I see under \rich\application data\microsoft\outlook\ two
files called Outlook.srs and Outlook.xml.

Ok cool deal... looks like its working. However when RICH logs onto
PC2... my roaming settings like My Docs and Desktop seem to move...
however when I launch Outlook... i get the "create a new profile
screen". Its not reading those two files from my roaming profile. If
i create a new profile... it creates a NEW outlook.srs (actually
called outlook~1.srs).

The user has full rights to these profile folders, as they are able to
write to them. Any idea why Outlook 2003 is not using the already
created Outlook.srs and Outlook.xml files for the profile? I haven't
tried this in Outlook 2000... but I might to see if I get the same
results or not.

This is all in a test environment BTW.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The srs and xml files are for send receive settings and the navigation pane.
Outlook 2000 won't create them.

not sure why they won't roam, however the xml can hold shortcuts that are
local - the shortcuts would fail in a roaming profile.

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



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[Richard Treleaven]

Well then where are the profile files supposed to be located? I can't
seem to figure out why this isnt roaming.

 

[pcunite]

To automatically create outlook exchange profiles I suggest Outloo
Profiler.
http://goff.nu/products/windows/profiler/index.htm