Outlook 2000 Roaming Profiles????????

[dixonsm]

Can Outlook 2000 be setup using roaming profiles, so that anyone on our Exchange Server can log on to a win2K computer and get their email? We have 300 PC's so there is no way to install a profile on every PC for every user, so I am just curious if there is a way for each user to login and get their mail??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! [sig][/sig]

 

[Dreamboat]

I asked someone (briefly, I'm afraid) about your question here. They told me that roaming profiles are stored on the server, not the PC. You may want to get into Outlook on the PC, then go to Tools-Options. Somewhere in there is a place to tell it that you want to prompt for a profile whenever Outlook is opened.


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[connecta]

hello,

i don't have this option in my Outlook but have already configured working roaming profiles. Is the option to prompt for a profile just only available if Outlook is in Exchange mode?

Thanks in advance.

 

[bigfoot]

How did you do the working roaming profiles?

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[connecta]

Within the Active Directory user settings I entered a profile path on the server. I have shared this profile path and created a new user on a W2K client computer. The W2K client computer automatically recognized the settings on the server and switched to the roaming user profile.

Then I installed Office 2K on the client computer. Office created several new hidden folders on the client computer, one of them the "Local Settings". But the system didn't synchronized these new folders of the user settings with the roaming profile on the server. Although everything works fine, only the Outlook.pst file still stays on the client computer. I have not excluded any folders from synchronization between the client and the server.

In addition I searched the web for the problem and i think it's because of our lacking Exchange server. Is there any work-around to use Outlook with roaming user profiles but without any exchange server?

Thanks,
Kar-Wing