Saving: Outlook Express

Unfortunately, no, you can't choose where the Outlook Express data files will be stored, and you definitely can't put them on a server (you can do all this with Outlook, however).  

You can find the email files by clicking TOOLS->OPTIONS->MAINTENANCE->STORE FOLDERS and here is the path to the DBX files which hold all your email.

You could create a shortcut to this folder on your desktop, so clicking the shortcut will open the folder that holds your email files just like they were stored on your desktop.

You can find the address book file by searching for *.wab, it'll actually be your windows-logon.wab, so if you were logged in as the default user it would be default.wab.

However, the only reason to have these files accessible from the desktop is if you are going to rely on the users to manually back up the files, and this just isn't going to happen.  Even the ones that don't just blow off backing up are going to do it wrong anyway, so when you need the backup it won't be there.  Instead you'll find they backed up winword.exe by mistake, or some such.

If you are using backup software, the software doesn't care where the files you want backed up are at, so just find them on the harddrive and set the folders to be backed up to the server by your software.

What is the difference between Outlook Express and Outlook?

Thanks for the great advise!