Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file Hi Sharyn- That would be pretty easy to do with a _vbscript_. Create a FileSystemObject and have it access the file. That exposes most file properties, including filesize, as I recall. The script can send you an email if the file gets too large. Run the script once a day using the task scheduler. Check the docs on http://msdn.microsoft.com. There should be good info there. If not, let me know and I'll be glad to dig something up for you. -Dave Doherty - Original Message - From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 1:32 PM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file Good afternoon, In the last few weeks, Desktop support has had issues in where Outlook has stopped working due to the size of the Outlook.pst file. I back up these files using Backup Exec on a server. I am looking for some sort of software that can monitor file size, either installed on each users local machine with some sort of notification function, or something that can monitor the .pst size in Backup exec, again with some sort of flag. I am after some way to get an alert, once the users' Outlook.pst gets to be, say, over 1 gig. My users are not savvy enough to separate their psts into manageable sizes, so we need to do it for them. Suggestions? Thanks, Sharyn
RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message That would be pretty easy to do with a _vbscript_. Create a FileSystemObject and have it access the file. That exposes most file properties, including filesize, as I recall. The script can send you an email if the file gets too large. Run the script once a day using the task scheduler. Unfortunately, it's not just 1 file. Its 300 users' Outlook.pst files, on 300 different machines. What I was looking for, was a piece of 3rd party software, to load on a server, that will go out and find all Outlook.pst files on the network (or any other file type that I specify) check the file size, then email me back or notify me if the file gets too large. Is there such a thing? Thanks, Sharyn
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message From a server on the network, you would have to have permissions to each machine to do that. If you run Active Directory it's not a problem, though. In fact, you could add the script Dave suggested to their startup to compile a report of pst sizes. Darin. - Original Message - From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:04 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file That would be pretty easy to do with a _vbscript_. Create a FileSystemObject and have it access the file. That exposes most file properties, including filesize, as I recall. The script can send you an email if the file gets too large. Run the script once a day using the task scheduler. Unfortunately, it's not just 1 file. Its 300 users' Outlook.pst files, on 300 different machines. What I was looking for, was a piece of 3rd party software, to load on a server, that will go out and find all Outlook.pst files on the network (or any other file type that I specify) check the file size, then email me back or notify me if the file gets too large. Is there such a thing? Thanks, Sharyn
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Hello Sharyn, Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 1:32:42 PM, you wrote: SS> Suggestions? A good while back someone here recommended www.ks-soft.com. GREAT application. -- Best regards, Davidmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message From a server on the network, you would have to have permissions to each machine to do that. If you run Active Directory it's not a problem, though. In fact, you could add the script Dave suggested to their startup to compile a report of pst sizes. I do run an AD domain here. That would be pretty easy to do with a _vbscript_. Create a FileSystemObject and have it access the file. That exposes most file properties, including filesize, as I recall. The script can send you an email if the file gets too large. Run the script once a day using the task scheduler. Scripting writing is not one of my strengths so forgive the stupid question..would I not have to load some sort of .net framework on every workstation in order for this script to run? I like the idea of using AD to have each workstation run the script as they log onto the domain, but I am not sure how to get this script to work on the individual machines. Thanks for your time! Sharyn
RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message The .NET framework is not needed for VBS scripts or non-.NET executables, only for .NET compiled executables. So now, the thing is to just find or have someone write the script for you . If you standardized the location of the PST on every workstation, a simple bat file would do the trick. If the directory name is different on each workstation, then you would need to pass it a parameter to find the directory and echo the dir info to a network file. Heh..I"m working on the "get someone to write it for me" part, that would be my boss who came up with this idea about the size monitoring of the pst files anyway. The directory is the standard directory that Outlooks installs all it's pst files, documents and settings//local settings/application data/ etc etc So, since everyone's user name is different that would put it in a different directory.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message The .NET framework is not needed for VBS scripts or non-.NET executables, only for .NET compiled executables. So now, the thing is to just find or have someone write the script for you . If you standardized the location of the PST on every workstation, a simple bat file would do the trick. If the directory name is different on each workstation, then you would need to pass it a parameter to find the directory and echo the dir info to a network file. Darin. - Original Message - From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file From a server on the network, you would have to have permissions to each machine to do that. If you run Active Directory it's not a problem, though. In fact, you could add the script Dave suggested to their startup to compile a report of pst sizes. I do run an AD domain here. That would be pretty easy to do with a _vbscript_. Create a FileSystemObject and have it access the file. That exposes most file properties, including filesize, as I recall. The script can send you an email if the file gets too large. Run the script once a day using the task scheduler. Scripting writing is not one of my strengths so forgive the stupid question..would I not have to load some sort of .net framework on every workstation in order for this script to run? I like the idea of using AD to have each workstation run the script as they log onto the domain, but I am not sure how to get this script to work on the individual machines. Thanks for your time! Sharyn
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message If you put the username as a parameter to a batch file in every users AD profile, then a simple batch file like ECHO %1 >> \\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTsize.log DIR C:\documents and settings\%1\local settings\application data\ etc... >> \\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTSize.log Would give it to you. Of course you could get fancier with the log file format, but this gives you the fundamental data. Obviously you have to put this individually into each users' profile with their username, so that will take time... Darin. - Original Message - From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file The .NET framework is not needed for VBS scripts or non-.NET executables, only for .NET compiled executables. So now, the thing is to just find or have someone write the script for you . If you standardized the location of the PST on every workstation, a simple bat file would do the trick. If the directory name is different on each workstation, then you would need to pass it a parameter to find the directory and echo the dir info to a network file. Heh..I"m working on the "get someone to write it for me" part, that would be my boss who came up with this idea about the size monitoring of the pst files anyway. The directory is the standard directory that Outlooks installs all it's pst files, documents and settings//local settings/application data/ etc etc So, since everyone's user name is different that would put it in a different directory.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message No need for %1 There are these varibles available. %COMPUTERNAME% %USERNAME% %USERPROFILE% Now, you can't have spaces in the "DIR" Command, so DIR "%USERNAME%\*.*" >> "C:\Pst.Log" Now, that only works in a .cmd file. testing from a command prompt doesn't work. - Original Message - From: Darin Cox To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file If you put the username as a parameter to a batch file in every users AD profile, then a simple batch file like ECHO %1 >> \\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTsize.log DIR C:\documents and settings\%1\local settings\application data\ etc... >> \\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTSize.log Would give it to you. Of course you could get fancier with the log file format, but this gives you the fundamental data. Obviously you have to put this individually into each users' profile with their username, so that will take time... Darin. - Original Message - From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file The .NET framework is not needed for VBS scripts or non-.NET executables, only for .NET compiled executables. So now, the thing is to just find or have someone write the script for you . If you standardized the location of the PST on every workstation, a simple bat file would do the trick. If the directory name is different on each workstation, then you would need to pass it a parameter to find the directory and echo the dir info to a network file. Heh..I"m working on the "get someone to write it for me" part, that would be my boss who came up with this idea about the size monitoring of the pst files anyway. The directory is the standard directory that Outlooks installs all it's pst files, documents and settings//local settings/application data/ etc etc So, since everyone's user name is different that would put it in a different directory.
Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file
Title: Message Good point...forgot about the environment variables. So, for Sharyn's use, it would be something like... ECHO %1 >> "\\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTsize.log" DIR "%USERPROFILE%\local settings\application data\ etc..." >> "\\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTSize.log" Then she just has to put them in every AD profile . There may be a shortcut for that though...possibly a group policy that would do it. Darin. - Original Message - From: William Stillwell To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file No need for %1 There are these varibles available. %COMPUTERNAME% %USERNAME% %USERPROFILE% Now, you can't have spaces in the "DIR" Command, so DIR "%USERNAME%\*.*" >> "C:\Pst.Log" Now, that only works in a .cmd file. testing from a command prompt doesn't work. - Original Message - From: Darin Cox To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file If you put the username as a parameter to a batch file in every users AD profile, then a simple batch file like ECHO %1 >> \\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTsize.log DIR C:\documents and settings\%1\local settings\application data\ etc... >> \\ path to your server here that every user has write access to>\PSTSize.log Would give it to you. Of course you could get fancier with the log file format, but this gives you the fundamental data. Obviously you have to put this individually into each users' profile with their username, so that will take time... Darin. - Original Message - From: Sharyn Schmidt To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:43 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] WAY OT: software to monitor the size of the local Outlook.pst file The .NET framework is not needed for VBS scripts or non-.NET executables, only for .NET compiled executables. So now, the thing is to just find or have someone write the script for you . If you standardized the location of the PST on every workstation, a simple bat file would do the trick. If the directory name is different on each workstation, then you would need to pass it a parameter to find the directory and echo the dir info to a network file. Heh..I"m working on the "get someone to write it for me" part, that would be my boss who came up with this idea about the size monitoring of the pst files anyway. The directory is the standard directory that Outlooks installs all it's pst files, documents and settings//local settings/application data/ etc etc So, since everyone's user name is different that would put it in a different directory.
