Effects of Changing Default Delivery Location in Outlook 2003

[Jim DeGeorge]

Hi

My company's policy is that they don't provide much email storage space for
users on the LAN, so they suggested that I change my default delivery
location to a PST file on my hard drive, which would remove the limitation.

I'm about to do that but get a warning message:

"You have changed the default delivery location for your e-mail. This will
change the location for your Inbox, Calendar, and other folders."

I expected only the INBOX to be moved, so I'm concerned that my calendar
will be wiped out and a new one created in the PST file rather than the
existing calendar moving over to the PST.

Does anyone know what Outlook will do in this situation? The LAN folks
don't know, and I searched the MS Outlook knowledgebase and couldn't find
anything about the calendar.

I'll leave things be and archive frequently until I can get this sorted out.
I'd appreciate any insight about this. Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

My company's policy is that they don't provide much email storage
space for users on the LAN, so they suggested that I change my
default delivery location to a PST file on my hard drive, which would
remove the limitation.

Poor advice.

I'm about to do that but get a warning message:

"You have changed the default delivery location for your e-mail.
This will change the location for your Inbox, Calendar, and other
folders."

I expected only the INBOX to be moved, so I'm concerned that my
calendar will be wiped out and a new one created in the PST file
rather than the existing calendar moving over to the PST.

Changing the delivery location changes ALL your default folders and breaks
most of the advantages for using Exchange in the first place.

Does anyone know what Outlook will do in this situation? The LAN
folks don't know, and I searched the MS Outlook knowledgebase and
couldn't find anything about the calendar.

I'll leave things be and archive frequently until I can get this
sorted out. I'd appreciate any insight about this. Thanks!

If I were in your shoes, I'd create a rule that moves incoming mail to the
PST, leaving the delivery location set to the Exchange mailbox.

 

[Jim DeGeorge]

Brian

I tried that. The criteria was any email with me in the CC or TO box, which
I thought would cover everything. Not all was moving.

Also, my calendar could have events with attachments that may break the LAN
size policy and those meetings will get deleted.

I agree it's a bad policy, but they're backing me into a corner.