Archive: Default PST location

[Austin]

Okay, it's the year 2008 and MS still doesn't trust PST's out on the network?
WHY!? I have over 3000 users with Autoarchive PST's we have to manually put
in their H:\MAIL directory and not ONE.. NOT ONE has EVER gone bad.

So.. now that my rants are out of the way. Is there a way in Office 2007 to
setup the archive file to automatically go to H:\MAIL?

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

And M$, it's the 21st century and I am meeting with Apple reps on the 7th to
try to bring the company I work into that century since you can't.

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Okay, it's the year 2008 and MS still doesn't trust PST's out on the
network?
WHY!? I have over 3000 users with Autoarchive PST's we have to
manually put
in their H:\MAIL directory and not ONE.. NOT ONE has EVER gone bad.

Microsoft *recommends* not using networked drives. They don't say it
is impossible. When a user has an open handle on a file over the
network and the network goes down, just what application do you think
is running locally on the networked host to gracefully close the file?
That's right, nothing so the file gets slammed closed. Client-server
applications will have an application running on each end to handle
persistent connections and handle the file closings if other end
disappears. There is no client-server relationship between Outlook
and a networked drive for the file(s) that it has open. Be thankful
that your users have a decent network to work with. Or maybe they
don't even have their archive .pst files open in Outlook except on
rare occasion. Or there have been problems but you weren't the one
that had to handle them.

So.. now that my rants are out of the way. Is there a way in Office
2007 to
setup the archive file to automatically go to H:\MAIL?

So what stops you now from mapping a drive letter (H and specifying
that in the path for the archive .pst file? Why are you even
bothering with archive PST files if you have a professed corporation
of 3000 employees where all their e-mails should be getting backed up
at the Exchange server?

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

See your next claim. Pretty much obviates any need to address your
question.

And M$, it's the 21st century and I am meeting with Apple reps on
the 7th to
try to bring the company I work into that century since you can't.

And this community of peer users would give a gnat's fart about your
intended change why? Why would we even bother to address your
question if you are intent on replacing Outlook (and probably
Exchange) in the near future? Are the employees ready for the switch
although apparently they are obviously still getting their e-mailing
done?

 

[Austin]

Like I stated before, we have over 3000 users and not a single problem PST..
why because I do have a great network and I intend on keeping it that way.
Thats why we use archiving to get mail off the exchange server and onto a
much easier to backup file server.

Currently we do map the archive to the H: drive but we have to do it
manually. Why can't this be in a policy or the PRF file. There is a spot for
it in the PRF file but it doesn't work!.

In todays day and age things need to be as automated as possible, and having
to set the archive location manually is just plain stupid.

Please Vanguard don't reply anymore unless you can actually read the post
AND have a real resolution.

 

[Austin]

Vanguard I apologise for the poor response. I'm just having a horrid day with
this stuff.

Thanks

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Currently we do map the archive to the H: drive but we have to do it
manually. Why can't this be in a policy or the PRF file. There is a
spot for
it in the PRF file but it doesn't work!.

Why not use login scripts (to run the 'net share' command)? I've been
on several domains where they use the login scripts (when you log into
the domain and not locally) that do this.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Okay, it's the year 2008 and MS still doesn't trust PST's out on the
network? WHY!?

Networking I/O protocols are not the same as local hard drive I/O protocols.

I have over 3000 users with Autoarchive PST's we have
to manually put in their H:\MAIL directory and not ONE.. NOT ONE has
EVER gone bad.

TCP/IP is not a guaranteed-delivery transport mechanism. If IP is the
transport stack, I/O can go astray or packets can be delivered out-of-order.
If you're busy writing to disk and your I/O packets aren't handled in the
correct order, who knows what effect that can have on the resulting data.

 

[msnews.microsoft.com]

Okay, it's the year 2008 and MS still doesn't trust PST's out on the network?
WHY!? I have over 3000 users with Autoarchive PST's we have to manually put
in their H:\MAIL directory and not ONE.. NOT ONE has EVER gone bad.

So.. now that my rants are out of the way. Is there a way in Office 2007 to
setup the archive file to automatically go to H:\MAIL?

Any help would be greatly appriciated.

And M$, it's the 21st century and I am meeting with Apple reps on the 7th to
try to bring the company I work into that century since you can't.

Use Outlook Profiler to automate the PST files. You should also look at Exchange Archiving software.