RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:18:25 -0700

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Darren,
 
thanks for the response - I know what you mean... we have PST's used in places here - I have several because I, like you do not like to delete stuff.... however, I'm happy with the fact that it's entirely at my own risk.... and I do my own backups periodically (Now I have my Gmail account I can get me mailing lists moved over to there and archive / search for stuff there instead.... heheheheh)
 
I'm just trying to do my bit to help people out - I've spent a lot of time lurking on a lot of lists - and I've picked up a lot... most of which I've dropped again since :-) but this is one lesson that has stuck with me.... and it's nice to be able to give a little back here and there....
 
btw - on the giving something back front - anyone want a Gmail invite? Joe, Darren, Tony, Roger, et al - your names are on some...... ;-)
 
Cheers
Jack

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: 23 June 2004 14:58
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange

Jack-
You have a perfectly valid point and yet, millions of people live and die by PSTs, even in large corporations that "should know better". The reasons vary from inadequate central storage for Exchange to just plain old user preference. Hell, even I keep emails forever in PSTs--yea they're bad but it beats the heck out of having to groom my info store every week or month, and I have a wonderful history of my life in email that I can refer to at any time :-).
 
In any case Edwin, to answer your question--yes you should try avoiding PSTs altogether. Failing that, try to avoid having to roam them--its just messy. Finally, if you have to make them available from anywhere then I have used mapped drives to store PSTs before (e.g. the user's home directory). It isn't the greatest idea, especially when they get very large, but it is do-able--just be prepared for the occasional corrupted PST and you get issues with being able to back those PSTs up on the server if the user has them open (i.e. they've left Outlook open). You probably don't want to do anything to make them roam with the profile because any reasonably sized PST will cause the logon and logoff process to take forever--esp. when the user is remote to their server.

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Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:30 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange

Hmmmm how about..... DON'T USE PST's!! THEY ARE BAD!!
 
Does that cover it? If you have an Exchange Server, and judging by your subject I'm ass-u-me-ing that you do.... then use the Information Store - it's what it's designed for...... Centralised Backups, Single Instance Storage, etc.
 
If you're in any doubt about how bad PST's are, sign up to the Exchange list that Sunbelt software hosts and Post something along the lines of "I like PST's, what does the rest of the group think?" (remember to put on a flame retardant jacket and duck before you hit send :-)
 
 
Or try reading this: http://snipurl.com/7a0f
 
HTH
Jack
 
 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin
Sent: 23 June 2004 14:07
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange

According to MS documentation, it is not a good idea to put Outlook *.pst files in a remote location such as a UNC path.  So what is the alternative if you are using roaming profiles?  The *.pst file does not seem to get copied over into the users Application Data folder when logging off or when moving to another computer.

 

At one point, I had the GPO set to delete locally cached copies of profiles but because of the above mentioned had to disable this option.

 

 

Thank in advance for your responses,

Edwin

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