Autoarchiving

[snakeeyes1978]

I've just joined a new company and users are currently setup to have auto-archiving to C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\USERNAME\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\MICROSOFT\OUTLOOK - What I need to do is change this because when we rollout a new PC and the user is not present, their profile does not exist so its nigh impossible to copy their PST files to the correct directory which means going back to the user at a later date. What I need to do is this:

* Alter the Outlook autoarchiving settings for new users so that it points to a different path. (Is this an SOE issue or is it handled by Exchange itself??)

* Alter the settings for current users so that it autoarchives to a different directory. Does this require a registry change (and if so, what changes) or is it a simple Exchange server setting.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Smorgan11]

go tools options other auto archive and then choose the location you want to auto archive files.

 

[ntinlin]

Auto-archive is all client based.

But if you are using an AD rather than NT domain you should be able to use the Office templates to configure auto-archive via group policy.

 

[snakeeyes1978]

Sorry for the late replies.

Smorgan11: I can't do that as I need to change around 1200 users and I obviously can't attend each machine to make the appropriate changes.

Ntlinlin: That was my inital thoughts but unfortunately we haven't got Office Group Policies running.

The only way that I can see it working is to change registry settings as part of the system logon script. What I need to know is where the auto-archive settings are stored for outlook. Are they in a file, registry or what?\

 

[tmohn]

From what I gather, your choices are limited. I suggest you Group email your users and have them set their archive paths to their server based drives assuming they have network based storage. Follow the steps Smorgan11 suggested but make sure
you have enough server storage space to handle a lot of data.
I'm not sure this will move existing archive folders (don't think so)to the network side. Clients can do this by opening
existing archive folders and copying or moving to a network side folder location.
TM