Exchange Server & Outlook 2003 PST files

Is there a methodology to back up the PST files to the server via
syncronization ( besides the my documents folder) I am looking for a happy
medium so if I keep all the files on the server that could bloat the exchange
database files but I do not want to lose the data in the outlook pst files (
have multiple users using the same PC & roaming locally & remotely.
Thanks

 

I would stop using PST files and use Exchange. It's much easier to recover
deleted messages and users always have access to their mailboxes from any PC
they log on to.

If you must use PST files and lose many of Exchange's benefits, you'll need
to locate them in the users' home folders, not on the local drive and then
they'll be backed up along with everything else. You can change the PST
location from Outlook.

Kathy

 

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I agree with Kathy. Mail doesn't belong in PST files when you have Exchange.
Keep anything you are about on the server.

Also note that MS doesn't support accessing PST files across LAN/WAN
connections.

 

You are not going to believe this but it is not recommended to have the PST
on a network share as it is more likely to get corrupted. I was shocked to
see this article myself. See for yourself:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019

 

Ok, how do we archive the data??

What about the 16Gb artifical limit imposed on users

 

Use GFI archive until Exchange 2003 sp2 kicks it to 75 gigs.

 

Or walk round the office burning archive PSTs to a CD every couple of
months. Then replace with new empty PST for archive. That's the cheapskate
method...

Kathy

 

Hey, thats really cool.....

when I saw a post here about Novell Groupwise and Novell SBS6.5 I contacted
a local Novell partner
to find out what that was - just interested. My experience over that last 6
years has only been Windows.
I had heard of Novell and since we don't hear much about them naturally
thought of them as yesterdays new....

Boy how wrong was I

I contacted Novell who put me touch with a LOCAL partner - this partner
educated me, showed me a Groupwise 6.5 - he had less than 2000 emails and
12,000 documents in his LIVE mailbox. He also has 680,000 Emails, 184,000
documents in his archive mailbox

Searching for "British Telecom" in his archive mailbox found 14 quotations
and 230 emails
took 19 seconds.

We took Novell on-board with the help of the Novell partner and now we have
6 of our largest Clients switched over from SBS2003.

My clients are happy as there are no real issue - those montly patches on
the Server are no longer necessary