Roaming Profiles and Outlook

[UberNuggets]

Hi, I need to setup a roaming profile for a user. Our office only has 8 users so we are running under a workgroup model. I setup a roaming profile for the user and have his profile located at \\server\profiles\%username%. Now the problem is Outlook 2000. When I create the account on each individual workstation and setup Outlook it saves the .pst file to c:\Docs&Settings, which is not what I want. I need the .pst file and all other Outlook files saved to the Profiles network share so that the user can access his e-mail from any of our workstations. What am I doing wrong?

 

[CharlieJax]

Don't save the pst to the profile drive. Save it to the user's personal drive.

The profile drive is not mapped with a letter, so Outlook will not be able to correctly communicate with the pst file.

You can change the location that the pst file is saved at in the Outlook settings. CJ
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[UberNuggets]

Thanks for the reply CharlieJax. I can't save the pst to the user's personal drive because he does not have a personal drive. He is only in the office a few times a week and uses any number of workstations (whatever is available at the time). I mapped a letter to the user's profile folder. Where in Outlook do I change the location of the pst file?? I've looked and looked for such a setting and must be blind, because I can't find it.

 

[UberNuggets]

I think I have it all sorted it out now. I mapped Z: to \\server\profiles\%username%, then I cut the outlook.pst from c:\docs&settings and pasted it into my desired location. Open up Outlook, it can't find the .pst so it prompts for the location. Point it towards z:\outlook\outlook.pst, yada yada yada, it seems to be working.

I think this accomplishes my objective, although shortcut bar, signatures and other miscellaneous files are still stored in docs&settings. I don't think that will be a major problem. If anyone knows of a good way to take care of those as well please let me know.