Outlook Automatic BackUp

[coop9653]

I am looking for a way for my users to automatically backup there exchange server accounts to a pst file.

A macro with a button would be nice.

We are using outlook 97 now, but will be upgrading to 2000 soon. Microsoft has a add-in that will backup pst files, and they say your exchange account is backed up by your exchange admin, which is about STUPID, our exchange admin is 1500 miles away, and worthless, THUS we need manual backups.

any suggestions would be helpful!

 

[Dreamboat]

Why don't you pretend they all have laptops and create offline folders? Tools-Synch

This should create *.OST files on their hard drives. And you can set it to synch on exit.

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[coop9653]

Ahh there comes the difficulty.

I am avoiding having anything but exchange services on any computer, reason being our users move from computer to computer often.

roaming profiles is OUT they wont let us do this. There is not enough space on the personal folders server to accomidate anything!

My users are well trained, but expecting them to do more than change there name in exchange services is asking too much. So i would end up spending all my time, reconfiguing things for them.

You may ask why this needs to be so difficult! I work for a GOV agency! The network guys are untrained morons! I was hired to support a specific office. I do what i can, but The network guys politic the exchange server away and they have full control over it.

So far they tend to lose all our mail on a pretty regular bases. Soon they plan on consolidating MORE offices into one server, thus increasing the problem!

 

[Dreamboat]

So, what you're saying is:

1. You don't want it stored on the exchange server.
2. You don't have any other network drive room available for these users, so you can't put personal folders there.
3. But you say they move from PC to PC too much; then you wouldn't want to store them on a hard drive.

You've got no options, looks like to me. Unless one of my three statements is wrong?

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