J
JDThree [MVP]
I have a site where a (now fired) admin had set up all the users (about 80)
with their OST files on a network drive (redirected My Documents and then he
also put the OST files there).
Seems kind of pointless to me because if they lose connectivity, they no
longer have even their cached info, which seems to be the logical reason
(other than anti-spam in 2003) to have the OST file in the first place.
I've been doing some google searches and registry searches, but I can't find
where I can modify that location without having to actually physically touch
the machine.
Right now their home directory is set via their user account to a network
share and mapped to the H drive. They want to get rid of this drive
altogether.
I pulled up an image onto a new machine to see what i can find out off the
network, when I looked at the profile properties set up for this one, and go
to the "offline folder file settings" button in the Advanced tab (outlook
2003 on Windows XP) it tells me, for obvious reasons, "the path specified for
the file h:\outlook\outlook.ost is not valid." Since I don't have the network
plugged in, this is hardly a surprise, but it gave me my starting point to
try to track where it stores the file location and path.
However, I can't find any reference to it in the registry, or in the file
system. "h:\outlook" or even just "outlook.ost" turn up with nothing found.
Is there a registry setting where I can modify this? Since it's buried within
the user profile I know it won't be just one setting I can apply to everyone,
but at least I can deal with variables if I can at least figure out just
where it's kept.
And if it's not in the registry, hopefully someone can let me know if there
*is* some way to change this administratively throughout the domain rather
than having to sit at each computer.
Thanks for any info!
with their OST files on a network drive (redirected My Documents and then he
also put the OST files there).
Seems kind of pointless to me because if they lose connectivity, they no
longer have even their cached info, which seems to be the logical reason
(other than anti-spam in 2003) to have the OST file in the first place.
I've been doing some google searches and registry searches, but I can't find
where I can modify that location without having to actually physically touch
the machine.
Right now their home directory is set via their user account to a network
share and mapped to the H drive. They want to get rid of this drive
altogether.
I pulled up an image onto a new machine to see what i can find out off the
network, when I looked at the profile properties set up for this one, and go
to the "offline folder file settings" button in the Advanced tab (outlook
2003 on Windows XP) it tells me, for obvious reasons, "the path specified for
the file h:\outlook\outlook.ost is not valid." Since I don't have the network
plugged in, this is hardly a surprise, but it gave me my starting point to
try to track where it stores the file location and path.
However, I can't find any reference to it in the registry, or in the file
system. "h:\outlook" or even just "outlook.ost" turn up with nothing found.
Is there a registry setting where I can modify this? Since it's buried within
the user profile I know it won't be just one setting I can apply to everyone,
but at least I can deal with variables if I can at least figure out just
where it's kept.
And if it's not in the registry, hopefully someone can let me know if there
*is* some way to change this administratively throughout the domain rather
than having to sit at each computer.
Thanks for any info!