Thanks for the insight, but I checked all servers this user maps to. Of course, as luck would have it, these servers are at remote locations, so I had to have other staff check. And take their word for it that they did indeed check.
>From: Sean Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Upgrade from Windows 98 SE to Win2k - missing .pst file
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:42:28 -0900
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>Could it be that the data was stored in .pst on a server and not the pc?
>
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>Regards,
>
>Sean Martin, MCSE
>Network Administrator
>Ribelin Lowell & Company
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Boris Elieff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 4:36 PM
>To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>Subject: Upgrade from Windows 98 SE to Win2k - missing .pst file
>
>
>I upgraded a station from Win98 to Win2k. I made the fatal assumption that
>all contacts and other Outlook data were stored at the Exchange Server in
>the Information Store. After reattaching to Exchange, I could not find any
>of the contacts or other data. I'm assuming the Outlook was directing the
>data to a .pst file and that this file was stored in the folder containing
>the user's profile data. However, I cannot find a .pst file anywhere. So,
>could the upgrade of the OS have erased this file? Can outlook read/write
>to a file with an extension other than .pst?
>Thanks in advance. Boris
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