outlook 2003 and roaming profile

[steve]

I setup roaming profiles along with folder re-direction. Installed office
2003 and created an exchange account. The problem is when I log into computer
A, get the outlook welcome screen, setup the exchange account, fine. Log into
computer B with the same user account, I get the welcome screen for outlook
again.

Shouldn't the outlook settings follow the user around? What can I do to make
this happen?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, that should happen indeed.
Is Outlook the only program that doesn't bring over the settings?
What folders did you redirect and to where?
Did you logoff from computer A before logging on to computer B?

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I setup roaming profiles along with folder re-direction. Installed office
2003 and created an exchange account. The problem is when I log into
computer
A, get the outlook welcome screen, setup the exchange account, fine. Log
into
computer B with the same user account, I get the welcome screen for outlook
again.

Shouldn't the outlook settings follow the user around? What can I do to make
this happen?

 

[steve]

Hi Rob. The only other item to my knowledge so far is IE favorites. I
re-directed all 4 folders in the GPO folder redirection. I created a shared
folder with everyone full permission and pointed the re-direction there. Yes
I did logoff before logging back on again.

Also the system turned on offline files, which I turned off before I left
the client site and I didn't test after that, could that have anything to do
with it?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Folder Redirection is not the same as setting up Roaming Profiles.
Roaming Profiles can be set up on the user object in AD. For this you
specify a profile path.

FWIW; I've never been a real fan of redirecting the Application Data folder.
You might want to monitor (amongst others) network traffic, amount of open
files on server and client and server performance to see if it's working
optimally in your environment.

Note that you can create a custom policy or script to redirect IE Favorites.
This is one I highly recommend. I always set it as a subfolder of My
Documents.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Hi Rob. The only other item to my knowledge so far is IE favorites. I
re-directed all 4 folders in the GPO folder redirection. I created a shared
folder with everyone full permission and pointed the re-direction there. Yes
I did logoff before logging back on again.

Also the system turned on offline files, which I turned off before I left
the client site and I didn't test after that, could that have anything to do
with it?

 

[steve]

I do have a profile path in each user account, in addition to folder
re-direction. I'm not that concerned of network traffic at the moment but I
would really like to figure out why outlook settings aren't following the
user around.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

When you logoff is something actually being written back to the server?
Namely NTUSER.DAT