Hi, I have set up folder redirection on my domain, to serve the purpose of roaming profiles. The Application Data, My documents and Desktop folders have been redirected to a share on the server - \\server\Profiles$\ so that each user has an automatically created folder under the root directory. This is all working fine, but Outlook 2003 decides to put it's .pst file in the Local Settings folder on the local workstation, so users have to reconfigure their Outlook profile every time they log on to a new workstation. Is there any way that I can tell Outlook to store its .pst file in the Application Data folder on the server, so that it will be remembered wherever the user logs on? Thanks a lot Rob

Outlook 2003 uses an OST and offline personal mail file, which default location is in Local settings dir, which isnt included in roaming profiles, however there is a small bug you can exploit, you will first need to connect to the exchange account on a machine, then create the profile again on the users machine the profile and exchange will whine saying that it cant find the ost, this is where you can redirect the ost to a new folder and save a new version.

Well I dont have exchange server, so the profile just contains information about the user's external email address etc. I just wondered if this information could be "remembered" in any way (as with roaming profiles). Thanks for the reply Rob

easy then go to control panel , then mail icon, then got o show profiles and change location

OK that sounds good but is there no way that this can be done centrally from the server, so that it is already configured for every user. I would like to learn how larger comains would handle this kind of this, as I am hoping to do this kind of thing for a career. Thanks a lot Rob

They would use exchange to manage the email profile, exchange stores all messages for users in a central store accessable anywhere. if you are not using exchange then you must manually cnage the location of outlook profiles. there maybe a way round this, but not that i can think of right now. Larger domain users would use exchange or am advanced messaging system i.e lotus notes

That makes more sense doesnt it, thanks a lot for that. I guess I'm gonna have to learn how to use exchange server as well, but I think you can get a trial from the MS website. Rob