How to disable local pst use and storage while allowing network ps

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I am looking for a way to prevent users from archiving email to a local .pst
file while allowing them to only archive to a pst located on a network drive.
It would be best for my purposes to only allow archiving to the nework drive
and not allow users to copy the pst file from the network drive. They will
need to be able to read the emails stored in the pst files and open and save
attachments. Does anyone have ideas?
Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook has no features that would allow that level of control. Furthermore, putting .pst files on a network drive is not a supported configuration. Microsoft wants that doing so may result in greater network traffic and data corruption.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

Microsoft wants that doing so may result in greater
network traffic and data corruption.

Sue meant "Microsoft warns..."

 

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

I am looking for a way to prevent users from archiving email to a local .pst
file while allowing them to only archive to a pst located on a network drive.
It would be best for my purposes to only allow archiving to the nework drive
and not allow users to copy the pst file from the network drive. They will
need to be able to read the emails stored in the pst files and open and save
attachments. Does anyone have ideas?
Thanks

As far as I know, the Outlook GPO templates from the Office Resource
kit will allow blocking of PST files but not selectively.

You can easily use other GPO's to stop punters saving to local drives
and re-map user directories to network locations.

You don't need to use Outlook for this when Windows and GPO's will do
it.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Mark, what policy setting would you use to block the user's ability to create a .pst file on their local drive? I'm not that familiar with policies beyond Outlook's.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Mark Arnold [MVP]]

Mark, what policy setting would you use to block the user's ability to create a .pst file on their local drive? I'm not that familiar with policies beyond Outlook's.

I was refering to the policies, ACLs and folder redirection that
people put in place to prevent users from dumping anything (or seeing
etc.) onto the "C" drive. I wasn't singling PST's out as a file type
you could do something special with.
Apologies if that came across the wrong way before.