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Jeremy Schubert

We are using Outlook 2003 with Exchange Server 2003. We are discontinuing
the use of romaing profiles so I want to redirect the existing profiles to a
folder in the user's home drive. I can't use a pfr file for this right?
Than't only for setting up new profiles? I want to let the users keep the
profiles they have as they already have it organised as they like. So is
there a registry setting I can modify to accomplish this?
Thanks,
 
Roaming profiles is a Windows domain configuration. A mail profile holds
mail account configuration. These are not the same. Your post is confusing
in what you are trying to accomplish.
 
With roaming profiles, our users email settings follow from computer to
computer without having to create a new OWA profile at each computer. We're
getting rid of roaming profiles. But I'd like to know if there is a way we
can still centralize the OWA profiles.
Better or still confusing?
 
Jeremy Schubert said:
With roaming profiles, our users email settings follow from computer
to computer without having to create a new OWA profile at each
computer. We're getting rid of roaming profiles. But I'd like to
know if there is a way we can still centralize the OWA profiles.
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OWA doesn't use profiles. OWA is an HTML view of your Exchange mailbox. No
matter what you do with WIndows profiles, OWA should still show you the same
data.
 
Sorry! I meant Outlook 2003 using an Exchange Server. Don't know where my
head was.
 
OK, I've been thinking about this...I've probably confused everyone,
including myself, so here is my question asked in a different way.Please
correct me if the following information is incorrect.

1. We use the mail control panel in Windows to create our Outlook profiles
(we use Outlook 2003 and Exchange Server 2003).
2. That process creates a PST file in the location of C:\Documents and
Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\"
3. We currently use roaming profiles which copies the contents of that path
to the profiles share on the server
4. We are going to discontinue using roaming profiles so the contents of
that path will stay on the workstation. At that point, we might use folder
redirection for other purposes. But folder redirection can only be used for
the Application Data folder, not the Local Settings\Application Data folder.
5. Our teachers logon to various computers in the school. Without roaming
profiles, when a teacher logs on to a different computer for the first time,
they will have to create a new profile for that computer via the Windows
mail control panel.
6. By doing things this way, even though the mail is all kept on the
Exchange Server, the changes users make on their email accounts on one
computer will not be synchronised with the other computers they might use.
7. http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.asp lists some ways of
accomplishing the synching. But that might be a waste of time/money (?) and
I should probably just tell the teachers that they're going to have to
expect some differences between their emial settings form workstation to
workstaton?

Jeremy
 
1) Ok
2) Not correct, it creates an ost-file there which is a local copy of the
Exchange mailbox. It will only create a pst-file if you do not use Exchange
or change the default delivery location from the Exchange mailbox to a
pst-file.
3) Not correct, Roaming Profiles doesn't include any folder in the "Local
Settings" folder. "Local" is the key word here.
4) Correct, again "local" is the key word here. You do not want to sync this
folder since it is mainly designed for cached content or contains info
specific data and settings for that specific machine. Copying back and forth
that info defeats its purpose.
5) Yes, or you automate this by logon scripts, prf-files or Office
customization (cmw and mst-files; see the Office Resource Kit for more
info). Note all applications and Window settings will reset to default; not
just Outlook's.
6) What changes should users make to their accounts exactly? It's only the
mail profile configuration like adding secondary mailboxes that would get
lost and not the mail data itself.
7) You don't need any of that; you have an Exchange server.

Return question; why exactly are you moving away from roaming profiles?
Sounds like you still want to use them; users logging on to different
computers and expect to have them the same settings.
 
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