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We have an NT4 server with WIN98 and WIN2000 clients and use Outlook 2000. Is there a way to relocate the users email and email settings off the client PC's and onto the server.

Thanks for your help.

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by curlergirl

If I understand your question correctly, you don't have Exchange Server, but you want to store the users' .pst files on the server instead of on their local workstation. This is very easy to do - just copy each user's .pst file to the location on the server you want to use (this would usually be a folder specifically for that user's files, such as the user's home directory). Then, on the workstation go to the properties of Outlook, edit the user's profile, and edit the location of the personal folders to point to the new (server) location instead of the local (C: drive) location. If you want to remove the original .pst file, you can do that on the workstation by simply deleting it (after you're sure that the copy on the server is working properly, of course). You also referred to "email settings" - by this I assume you mean the user's \application data\microsoft\Outlook folder. This can only be relocated if you relocate the user's workstation user profile to the server, such as by using roaming profiles. Hope this helps!

by pcb

We typically don't share computers between users, so I only need to move email onto the server for backup, not necessariy the settings.

I would like to change the file location in Outlook, but I can't find where to change that parameter. I've done it in Excel and Word, why is it so hard to do/find in Outlook?

Thanks

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