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I am trying to get Outlook 2000 to follow my users to what ever computer they decide to logon to. As you may know the directory that Outlook stores some of the files in, is in the "Local Settings" directory (in the user profile directory) The "LocalSettings" directory does not get updated to the server. There is a registry hack to include this directory in the update to the server, but this only helps some of the problems. The email gets stored on the server, but does not follow the user to another computer. I wouldnt mind storing the email directly on the server (not in the profile) without using Exchange but this may induce a lot of network traffic. I only have 13 clients though but want to use good practice anyways. I have tried some tests and tried to just move the Outlook files to the server, and this works fine, but I lose the custom directories on the left that I setup, and I still can't roam with it. I get an error if I try to go to another computer. Can some one tell me all of the files to put on the server or in the profile, where they are located, and how to tell Outlook where to look for ALL the files. Thanks a million in advance.

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by rcc

You need to enable the User Roamin Profiles. Create a DOMAIN policy and set the directories you want to update in there. Use the user's home drive to store the dictionary files, personal address book and so on. It can only be done using ROAMING PROFILES in an NT type environment with NT/2000 workstations (doesn't work with 9x)
This is how we do it, for a much greater number of users.
I hope this helps. MS has a lot of articles on how to set-up domain policies and roaming profiles (there are several white-papers). I'd suggest you examine these, they can be used as "best practices".
Regards,
Radu

by infohungrynewbie

I guess a little more info will help. All of the computers on my network including the server are NT 4.0. I also have roaming profiles setup for everyone with User Profile Path, a simple logon script for mapping and the user Home Directory. If I leave the Outlook files in there original location (after Outook setup) I dont get some of the files updated to the server because they are stored in the "Local Settings" directory which does not get updated. I can use a registery hack to alow this directory to get updated to the server and this works, but if you go to another computer it comes up with can't find .PST file. This is also true if I relocate the files directly to the server. I must be missing a file on the local hard drive that is notstored in the user profile directory. Some thing that tells Outlook where the .PST file is stored. I am grabing all the following files in the user profile directory...
"Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\"
and
"Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\"
I hope this addon info helps a little more. Thanks

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