Automate SCANOST.EXE

[Ex-Microsoft Guy]

Question:
Is there a way to run scanost.exe from a command prompt/logon script WITHOUT
being prompting the user (automatically)?

History:
I am recovering from a DR of Exchange where my last good backup was three
weeks old. My final obstacle involves the Outlook Client.

You see, my users are using Outlook 2003 in cached mode. Therefore their
OSTs have more current messages than my restored server. This seems to
prevent Outlook from "seeing" the newest messages arriving on the server.

After researching this I found out about and ran SCANOST.EXE and it added
the missing messages within the OST back up to the store (Nice!!!!) AND
restored the OST synchronization funtionality.

So all is well for this bad situation in terms of Exchange data recovery.
Unfortunately I have hundreds of clients and would like to automate this fix
by running scanost.exe using a logon script. However I do not see a help
file associated with this tool that allows command line switches of any kind.

So if there are some internal ones that you can share, you would save me
from having to visit hundreds of Outlook clients.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[VanguardLH]

Question:
Is there a way to run scanost.exe from a command prompt/logon script WITHOUT
being prompting the user (automatically)?

History:
I am recovering from a DR of Exchange where my last good backup was three
weeks old. My final obstacle involves the Outlook Client.

You see, my users are using Outlook 2003 in cached mode. Therefore their
OSTs have more current messages than my restored server. This seems to
prevent Outlook from "seeing" the newest messages arriving on the server.

After researching this I found out about and ran SCANOST.EXE and it added
the missing messages within the OST back up to the store (Nice!!!!) AND
restored the OST synchronization funtionality.

So all is well for this bad situation in terms of Exchange data recovery.
Unfortunately I have hundreds of clients and would like to automate this fix
by running scanost.exe using a logon script. However I do not see a help
file associated with this tool that allows command line switches of any kind.

So if there are some internal ones that you can share, you would save me
from having to visit hundreds of Outlook clients.

Thanks in Advance.

Wouldn't this utility only have to be ran once by each user when they
next login? I'm wondering if you could use policies to push a registry
update to add an entry under the RunOnce key but that policy only gets
pushed once per domain login. I don't administer a DC so I don't have
experience with configuring domain policies but I would think there
would be a way to push just once a policy.