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From personal experience in my neophyte days as a network admin....
You can put PST files in a roaming profile... but only if you want 30
minute logon times as the HUGE pst files come across the wire. (hehehe)
Don't do this.
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Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCDBA
Flagship Integration Services
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
> > marcello wrote:
> >> I have created a roaming users in Windows 2000 domain and I see that
> >> the mail account is update in every logon but the box mail are only
> >> in local. I made error in user configuration or is not possible have
> >> in roaming the mail messages too?
> >
> > Do you have an Exchange server? If so, this is a piece of cake.
> > However, if you're using PST files, this isn't. Microsoft doesn't
> > support accessing PST files over a LAN/WAN connection (so you can't
> > really store them all on the server & expect things to work
> > smoothly). This isn't to say that it can't be done, but I strongly
> > discourage it.
> >
> > I don't know whether PST files can be included in the roaming profile
> > sync but I've never tried it. And I personally wouldn't want them to
> > - you want roaming profiles to be *tiny*....or you'll run into other
> > problems.
> >
> > I'd probably still use roaming profiles to make workstation
> > replacements easier, but I wouldn't want users roaming if they use
> > PST files. Just my $.02.
>
> Just realized you haven't said you're using Outlook at all - I made an
> assumption. If you're using OE, you can't even store the data files on a
> non-local drive, and they do not roam.
>
>
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