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andy M
Ladies, Gents and assorted experts,
I am a user connecting to a corporate exchange server with Outlook
2007.
As a solution to exploding memory usage, our corporate IT-bods have
decided to limit network postbox storage to one calendar week of
mails. All messages older than one week are automatically transferred
to a local archive.pst on the users PC.
I will admit that I probably misuse Outlook, as I have, to date, used
a subdirectory filing system to organise mails in my inbox. The
automatic archiving system now automatically re-creates this filing
system and transfers the mails in my Inbox structure to the equivalent
folder in my local archive.pst after one week.
For me, as a user, this has a whole raft of disadvantages. Apart from
having to use the search function twice to locate older mails, I am
unable to use PIM functionality such as reminder alarms on the mails
in the archive.pst (outlook tells me that this functionality is
unavailable for this type of folder).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Can I set options on archive.pst to
be able to use alarms? Could we set the system to archive to a
different sort of file rather than an archive? Does anyone have a
better solution to the probem of mixed local/online file storage? Can
anyone suggest a way for me to better use Outlook with this split
storage scheme so that I reduce my disadvantages? Performance of
Outlook 2007 is slooooow, but thats not the main issue at the moment.
I cant imagine that we are the only people with this kind of problem
and I cant imagine that this clunky solution is the industry standard.
Also, our IT people are getting sick of my barbed "Mordac, preventer
of information services" comments and I would like to become more
constructive.
TIA
andy M
I am a user connecting to a corporate exchange server with Outlook
2007.
As a solution to exploding memory usage, our corporate IT-bods have
decided to limit network postbox storage to one calendar week of
mails. All messages older than one week are automatically transferred
to a local archive.pst on the users PC.
I will admit that I probably misuse Outlook, as I have, to date, used
a subdirectory filing system to organise mails in my inbox. The
automatic archiving system now automatically re-creates this filing
system and transfers the mails in my Inbox structure to the equivalent
folder in my local archive.pst after one week.
For me, as a user, this has a whole raft of disadvantages. Apart from
having to use the search function twice to locate older mails, I am
unable to use PIM functionality such as reminder alarms on the mails
in the archive.pst (outlook tells me that this functionality is
unavailable for this type of folder).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Can I set options on archive.pst to
be able to use alarms? Could we set the system to archive to a
different sort of file rather than an archive? Does anyone have a
better solution to the probem of mixed local/online file storage? Can
anyone suggest a way for me to better use Outlook with this split
storage scheme so that I reduce my disadvantages? Performance of
Outlook 2007 is slooooow, but thats not the main issue at the moment.
I cant imagine that we are the only people with this kind of problem
and I cant imagine that this clunky solution is the industry standard.
Also, our IT people are getting sick of my barbed "Mordac, preventer
of information services" comments and I would like to become more
constructive.
TIA
andy M