LOL. No I don't need any more email accounts, but thanks!
Trying to work on reducing what I have now which is
something in the ball park of 20 or so. I actually spun up a <cough cough
cough hack cough> E2K3SP1machine<cough hack cough cough cough> at home.
I am going to start routing everything into that and see how the spam control
works on it and if it isn't good enough start working on figuring that stuff
out. I get about 300-400 spams a day at this point I think. I was just going to
set up a pop3/smtp server but figured I dealing with Exchange too much with
people now I might as well fire it up and use it regularly here in my test
environment.
I must say that I agree that PSTs are evil. All the while
saying I have about 17GB of them in folders (largest is 500MB though, I am just
dumb, not stupid). I am thinking about pushing them all into my exchange server
and then working on a perl script to sort them out and make them all clear
text and put them in some other format so I can easily search them.
joe From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange 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 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 :-)
You can find the list here: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/community.cfm
Or try reading this: http://snipurl.com/7a0f
Full link is here: http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/faq_db.asp?status=questions&faqID=1000&faqname=Exchange%205.5§ionID=1013§ionName=Why%20PST%20=%20BAD (watch
for wrapping)
HTH
Jack
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Sent: 23 June 2004 14:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 |
Title: Message
- RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange jack . eales
- RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange Darren Mar-Elia
- RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange jack . eales
- RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange deji
- RE: [ActiveDir] Roaming Profiles and Exchange Brian Desmond