Stephen Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Rodney M. Dyer wrote: >> 2. A users profile has a folder under it called "Local Settings". >> THIS FOLDER DOES NOT ROAM. This folder only exists during your >> session on the local machine. When you logout, the data in that >> folder is considered temporary for your session. Microsoft in >> further "grand wisdom" decided to store valuable information in that >> folder that you really need to carry around with you with the >> profile, but this data is "excluded by default". Notable application >> data includes: Microsoft Outlook email settings and PST files, etc.. >> Microsoft IE history, etc.. >> Microsoft Visual Studio .NET option settings,etc. > > This is a very good reason to recommend Firefox and Thunderbird. The > most annoying thing for my users was that the desktop picture is a > "Local Setting" that doesn't roam. Clever logout and login scripts > took care of this though.
Last time I checked, attempting to use an Outlook PST file from ANY network file system was considered unsafe, which is probably why it defaults to a local folder. <<CDC _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info