How to store view settings with Outlook + W2k?

[Sen7inel]

Hi,

our W2k network has roaming profiles. Whenever a user logs into her workstation and loads up Outlook Express, the Outlook shows the "Welcome to Outlook Express"-page, and has "forgotten" all the viewport settings and IMAP folders. It seems that by default, Outlook stores these settings locally when the user is ON the workstation somewhere in %systemroot%\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ .. Now, this folder seems impossible to include in the roaming profile, thus the viewport and IMAP settings are gone when the user logs out.

My temporary and cumbersome solution for this problem is a logon/logoff script that copies this information from/to the user's home directory and at logon deletes it. The process is invisible to the user, but it fails and starts to BUG when roaming profiles are not deleted from the client computer. This, in turn, is caused by the UserEnv EventId 1000 ("Cannot unload your registry&quot bug which is yet unsolved (SP1, IE SP2, SP2, nothing helps).

In short, how can I make it so that the view and IMAP settings are stored somewhere else than the Local Settings-folder, which is excluded from the roaming profile?

 

[Diodin]

Outlook Express is not the most advanced email client. It is not possible to locate the mail and settings somewhere else. A solution might by to setup a MS Exchange Server (Expensive) or to start using MS Outlook. Included in almost every MS Office installation. In this program you can specefy your personal folder location.

Arjan Meskers
Junior Software Developper
The Netherlands