Roaming Profiles , Laptops with Outlook Cached mode Offline files

[Marcus]

Setup :-
Windows 2003 SBS

Old Laptop
Outlook 2003
Windows XP

New Laptop
Windows XP
Outlook 2003

The problems :-

The old laptop has a roaming profile folder of username.DOMAIN I cannot get
the new laptop to create and use a roaming profile with this folder it just
creates a profile folder called username.

The old laptop is using cached mode and therefore has a large OST file which
is on the laptop itself in the username.DOMAIN folder it also has an
archive.pst with the same setup.

How can I get the old laptops email folders and setup to correctly create
and copy onto the new laptop which will not create the username.DOMAIN folder
and which cannot recieve the OST file or the PST file as they are local to
the old machine.

How should the roaming profile actually be setup and handle Outlook for
laptop users, what should be setup for off line use of outlook so that a user
can create emails etc .. offline

Our laptop users use Wireless, VPN connections , Network connections this
needs to be a seemless transition and they should be able to hop from a
client machine to any laptop but initally I do need to resolve the transfer
from old to new laptop.

Many Thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Apparently on the old laptop there is also (or at least has been) a folder
with %username% containing the profile of the user. If it is still there
logon as an adminsitrator and rename it to .old and do the same with the
username.domain folder.

When you know logon with your own username the roaming profile will get
loaded again and will now use %username% for the base folder.

 

[Marcus]

How do I deal with the current .OST and .pst files from the old laptop ?

should i just disable cached exchange mode on the old laptop so it saves
that setting in the profile and then open outlook on the new email and
re-enable chached exchange mode?

How should archive.pst 's be handled? I tried adding a GPO for Default
Location for .pst files but that hasnt made any effect to my account or
anyone elses. Each user has a arhive.pst that is stored within there Local
Settings which is clearly wrong?

Apparently on the old laptop there is also (or at least has been) a folder
with %username% containing the profile of the user. If it is still there
logon as an adminsitrator and rename it to .old and do the same with the
username.domain folder.

When you know logon with your own username the roaming profile will get
loaded again and will now use %username% for the base folder.

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


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Setup :-
Windows 2003 SBS

Old Laptop
Outlook 2003
Windows XP

New Laptop
Windows XP
Outlook 2003

The problems :-

The old laptop has a roaming profile folder of username.DOMAIN I cannot
get
the new laptop to create and use a roaming profile with this folder it
just
creates a profile folder called username.

The old laptop is using cached mode and therefore has a large OST file
which
is on the laptop itself in the username.DOMAIN folder it also has an
archive.pst with the same setup.

How can I get the old laptops email folders and setup to correctly create
and copy onto the new laptop which will not create the username.DOMAIN
folder
and which cannot recieve the OST file or the PST file as they are local to
the old machine.

How should the roaming profile actually be setup and handle Outlook for
laptop users, what should be setup for off line use of outlook so that a
user
can create emails etc .. offline

Our laptop users use Wireless, VPN connections , Network connections this
needs to be a seemless transition and they should be able to hop from a
client machine to any laptop but initally I do need to resolve the
transfer
from old to new laptop.

Many Thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Ost-files are just a cache of your Exchange mailbox and basically worthless
as it will be created the next time you connect to Exchange.

You can move the pst-files after everything is configured correctly and
connect to it by File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...
The Local Settings location is ok but you can move it to another location if
you want as long as it is local to the computer and not within a folder that
is in your roaming profile or does some other logon/logoff synchronisation.

GPO doesn't have anything to do with solving your issue.

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


-----

How do I deal with the current .OST and .pst files from the old laptop ?

should i just disable cached exchange mode on the old laptop so it saves
that setting in the profile and then open outlook on the new email and
re-enable chached exchange mode?

How should archive.pst 's be handled? I tried adding a GPO for Default
Location for .pst files but that hasnt made any effect to my account or
anyone elses. Each user has a arhive.pst that is stored within there Local
Settings which is clearly wrong?

Apparently on the old laptop there is also (or at least has been) a
folder
with %username% containing the profile of the user. If it is still there
logon as an adminsitrator and rename it to .old and do the same with the
username.domain folder.

When you know logon with your own username the roaming profile will get
loaded again and will now use %username% for the base folder.

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


-----

Setup :-
Windows 2003 SBS

Old Laptop
Outlook 2003
Windows XP

New Laptop
Windows XP
Outlook 2003

The problems :-

The old laptop has a roaming profile folder of username.DOMAIN I cannot
get
the new laptop to create and use a roaming profile with this folder it
just
creates a profile folder called username.

The old laptop is using cached mode and therefore has a large OST file
which
is on the laptop itself in the username.DOMAIN folder it also has an
archive.pst with the same setup.

How can I get the old laptops email folders and setup to correctly
create
and copy onto the new laptop which will not create the username.DOMAIN
folder
and which cannot recieve the OST file or the PST file as they are local
to
the old machine.

How should the roaming profile actually be setup and handle Outlook for
laptop users, what should be setup for off line use of outlook so that
a
user
can create emails etc .. offline

Our laptop users use Wireless, VPN connections , Network connections
this
needs to be a seemless transition and they should be able to hop from a
client machine to any laptop but initally I do need to resolve the
transfer
from old to new laptop.

Many Thanks