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by kingofthenerds 1 view

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Hi All,

I have setup roaming profiles for my users on a windows 2003 server domain. Everything works perfect except for outlook mail.

Basically they can send and recieve fine after I setup their mail, but when they log out and login again, their mail is gone from inbox, sent items etc.

I traced it down to it storing mail in local c:\documentsandsettings\user\etc

Shouldn't this information be redirected into the roaming profile?

Can I apply a group policy from the server or registry edit from the server to force the mail to be stored in their roaming profile?

I don't have an exchange server, I am simply setting up a pop account in outlook express.

Please help

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by jon

Your problems would be eliminated in this respect if you implemented Exchange Server...or another mail server that is more affordable and offers Outlook integration.

Your profiles seem to be working correctly, right?

Are you deleting cached profiles at logoff?

Here's something you could do. Implement home folders. On the same server you are storing your profiles, create a root folder for user home folders...somewhere that has lots of space and that you can share. In Active Directory Users and Computers, in the home folder of the users' settings, select the letter of the drive you wish to call their home folder, like H:\, and the path would be %username%\.

The next time they login, in My Computer, they'll see something like on \\servername (H:)

The home folder will be theirs and only theirs and going to drive H: puts them into their home folder only.

Move their Outlook PST file to that folder and make sure Outlook is using that data file.

That should do it.

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