ost and user profile path in roaming profile
Hi there,
if cached mode is activated Outlook creates the file outlook.ost by default in a subdirectory of the user profile path.
i.e. [user profile path]\..\...\Microsoft\Out
Unfortunately this path seems to be stored as string in the outlook profile.
This causes a problem, when the same user logs in at another workstation, where the user profile path is different. The difference of the user profile path is caused by various reasons but is correct.
(i.e. "user" at on workstation and "user.domain" at another)
When outlook is started on this other workstation, an error is displayed because outlook does not find the .ost files at the original stored path.
Because we need the caching, we cannot deactivate that.
Question:
Is there a method to define the path of the ost-file in a generic way, such as using a variable like %userprofile% ??
I have tried this out, but it seems that the string %userprofile% is resolved to the local user profile path when it is stored in the Outlook profile.
Michael
if cached mode is activated Outlook creates the file outlook.ost by default in a subdirectory of the user profile path.
i.e. [user profile path]\..\...\Microsoft\Out
Unfortunately this path seems to be stored as string in the outlook profile.
This causes a problem, when the same user logs in at another workstation, where the user profile path is different. The difference of the user profile path is caused by various reasons but is correct.
(i.e. "user" at on workstation and "user.domain" at another)
When outlook is started on this other workstation, an error is displayed because outlook does not find the .ost files at the original stored path.
Because we need the caching, we cannot deactivate that.
Question:
Is there a method to define the path of the ost-file in a generic way, such as using a variable like %userprofile% ??
I have tried this out, but it seems that the string %userprofile% is resolved to the local user profile path when it is stored in the Outlook profile.
Michael
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Hi Simon,
can you give me a hint for deploying a network-path for the OST file via group policy?
Unfortunately your proposed method for deleting the unwanted profiles is not practial in our environment.
thanks
Michael
can you give me a hint for deploying a network-path for the OST file via group policy?
Unfortunately your proposed method for deleting the unwanted profiles is not practial in our environment.
thanks
Michael
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Thanks Simon, it seem to be the definite truth.
Michael
Michael
Roaming profiles only really work very effectively where the machines are as identical as possible. If you are getting issues with username and username.domain then I would go to those machines and remove the profiles so that they can be put in to the correct location next time.
Simon.