[Samba] Outlook path to pst file is lost when usingroaming profiles

[Louis van Belle]

I use poledit.exe and the outlook.adm templete to define the path
of my pst files. I did put them on the server in the personal folder
in a hidden non accessable path for the users (example P:\.email ) 
at first start outlook wil create in p:\.email\ the file Outlook.pst
if alread one exist it will create Outlook1.pst.

Louis

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>Namens Robert Schetterer
>Verzonden: woensdag 22 februari 2006 0:37
>Aan: Douglas Phillipson
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Outlook path to pst file is lost when 
>usingroaming profiles
>
>Hi,
>i have all kind of versions of outlook ( 2000/xp/2003) running with 
>roaming profiles and samba pdc and i dont have any problem loosing the 
>pst path, on win 2000/xp, perhaps this was a bug from outlook 
>configured
>using with imap, check about that, note that every outlook patchlevel 
>behaves different, so check the outlook patch level too.
>I dont recommend setting regs , for the default pst i think it 
>is better
>to use a adm/ntconfig.pol
>Regards
>
>
>Douglas Phillipson schrieb:
>> Is nobody else losing their Outlook profile/path to pst when using 
>> roaming profiles?
>> 
>> Doug P
>> 
>> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>> We are having a problem getting the path to the Outlook PST file to 
>>> move from machine to machine using roaming profiles (Samba 
>3.0.10 on 
>>> RHEL 4).  When a user logs off on one machine and logs on 
>to another, 
>>> the outlook path to the PST file is gone.  I found this 
>message in the 
>>> archive back in 2002 but I see no resolution for it:
>>>
>>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2002-July/047507.html
>>>
>>> Here is the text from that post:
>>>
>>> Does anybody know how to manage roaming profiles with 
>outlook 2002 ? I
>>> have XP boxes with roaming profiles and all work fine. The 
>only problem
>>> is that
>>> XP doesn´t export the path where outlook stores ist .pst 
>file. This is
>>> not the problem for the .pst file where outlook stores 
>contacts and so.
>>> The path of the normal pst is on a network drive.  But I 
>have an IMAP
>>> mail account for every user and if you configure outlook for imap it
>>> creates another .pst file under the normal path ...Local
>>> Settings../outlook/
>>> I am not able to store this file under a different path 
>e.g. a network
>>> drive. I think that there are 2 ways for my problem:
>>>
>>> 1.) show outlook the path to a network drive for the imap 
>pst as I did
>>> it for the normal pst --> I don´t know how
>>>
>>> 2.) export the whole outlook path under local settings -->
>>>
>>> It works, but not for a long time:
>>>
>>> After you create an outlook account for the first time, 
>outlook adds a
>>> registry entry under
>>>
>>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows 
>NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
>>> --> ExcludeProfileDirs
>>>
>>> In this entry you can add directories of the roaming profile not to
>>> export. --> because of that, the outlook pst would not 
>exported with the
>>> roaming profile. If I delete this entry on all workstations 
>under the
>>> default and the user profile of the registry it works for some time.
>>> But after some time, I don´t know why the entry is back in 
>the registry
>>> to not export the outlook folder.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have an idea ?
>>>
>>> Regards sven
>>>
>>> Has anybody else seen this problem or found a resolution?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Doug P
>
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