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Microsoft Outlook express email with roaming profiles
I am running a domain using windows 2003 server and Active Directory.
All users have roaming profiles. The only problem is that their email doesnt follow their roaming profile.
Is there a way in that has to be originally set up? If not, how to I get their email from outlook express to follow their roaming profiles?
Please help
cjjimbos
All users have roaming profiles. The only problem is that their email doesnt follow their roaming profile.
Is there a way in that has to be originally set up? If not, how to I get their email from outlook express to follow their roaming profiles?
Please help
cjjimbos
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It's not exactly that way that it works, but, yes, you are right.
In the IMAP cas, the DBX files would not follow roaming users. But their environment would. As they would connect to an IMAP server, then the mails would stay on the server (as in exchange).
Check with your provider. It's possible they provide IMAP access. But I doubt it.
The best for you, in this case would be an exchange server as you already have a domain controller, an active directory ...etc.
In the IMAP cas, the DBX files would not follow roaming users. But their environment would. As they would connect to an IMAP server, then the mails would stay on the server (as in exchange).
Check with your provider. It's possible they provide IMAP access. But I doubt it.
The best for you, in this case would be an exchange server as you already have a domain controller, an active directory ...etc.
I think it can be done, with a trick, using Outlook Express 6.
Try this:
Make a folder under My Documents for each user, called, let's say "Mail".
Open Outlook Express 6 (I don't n kow if it's works with older versions).
Then go to Tools/Options/Maintenance/
Now, if the folder My Documents (and its subfolders) is (are) in the roaming profile everything it's ok.
Other solution to use is to change the location of Outlook Express files to a network drive, and assign that location to the user by using Active Directory User and Computers/User properties (use the name instead of user)/Profile, and use Home folder option to map a location of the file server as home directory to each user (I use letter S and the location is %username%, previously created folders for each user). Because a roaming profile requires a large amount of network traffic at every logon/logoff, I think the second solution works better, but only if the workstation are connected to the network, if the workstation are used outside the network use roaming profile as stated in the first solution.
I hope this will help you! We use Outlook and the PSTs (personal folders files) of our domain users are set on a network location, this is very usefull when changing computers.
Try this:
Make a folder under My Documents for each user, called, let's say "Mail".
Open Outlook Express 6 (I don't n kow if it's works with older versions).
Then go to Tools/Options/Maintenance/
Now, if the folder My Documents (and its subfolders) is (are) in the roaming profile everything it's ok.
Other solution to use is to change the location of Outlook Express files to a network drive, and assign that location to the user by using Active Directory User and Computers/User properties (use the name instead of user)/Profile, and use Home folder option to map a location of the file server as home directory to each user (I use letter S and the location is %username%, previously created folders for each user). Because a roaming profile requires a large amount of network traffic at every logon/logoff, I think the second solution works better, but only if the workstation are connected to the network, if the workstation are used outside the network use roaming profile as stated in the first solution.
I hope this will help you! We use Outlook and the PSTs (personal folders files) of our domain users are set on a network location, this is very usefull when changing computers.
I strongly suggest not doing that. Or login/logout will take minutes.
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So for sure, without having an exchange server or using IMAP with our ISP, then I cannot have email .dbx(?) files follow the profiles?