Looking for a way to query a system for path to current AutoArchiv

[Sandy Wood]

We recently changed file servers for all our user home drives. Many of our
users have created .pst files for AutoArchive purposes and saved them on
their home directories. Most of the users set the path, in the AutoArchive,
as a drive mapping, say F:\myarchive.pst. I'm worried that some users may
have the servername / UNC path instead configured
(\\servername\username\myarchive.pst) instead of the drive letter. I'd sure
like to find a way to query that info for each user, say in a script that
looks at a certain registry location at login.

I noticed that the settings are saved in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Messaging Subsystem\Profiles under the key 0a0d020000000000c000000000000046

For Outlook 2007 we can look into the value 001f0324 and see the setting.
I'd like to be able to query this value but it's a REG_BINARY key, it doesn't
look like it's a good candidate for querying in a script.

Does anyone have a better way to do this?

 

[Gordon]

We recently changed file servers for all our user home drives. Many of our
users have created .pst files for AutoArchive purposes and saved them on
their home directories. Most of the users set the path, in the
AutoArchive,
as a drive mapping, say F:\myarchive.pst.

That's actually a bad way of doing it. Outlook requires read/write access to
pst files (including, AFAIK, Archive files) and if the network drops at the
moment of archiving, the data will be corrupted. Far better to get your
Users to archive to their local HDD and then write a batch file to copy the
archive files to the server share on shut-down..

 

[Sandy Wood]

I see your point and I would rather not even have .pst files in our network
but what are you gonna do. It may be more unweildly to copy .pst files on
over 1000 machines however so we're staying with saving .pst files on their
home directory.

Either way, I'd love to find a way to verify each user's file and path for
their AutoArchive settings.