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No. You have to quit Outlook for the copy to work. What you could do is have a script to copy the files to your server when the user logs off or shuts his PC down.
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No. You have to quit Outlook for the copy to work. What you could do is have a script to copy the files to your server when the user logs off or shuts his PC down.

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You can't copy PST files while in use.<br />
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PST files SHOULD be on the local machine as Microsoft specifically don't support PST files on Network sahres. See:-<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019</a><br />
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and<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/01/21/network-stored-pst-files-don-t-do-it.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/01/21/network-stored-pst-files-don-t-do-it.aspx</a><br />
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If you are using Exchange Server you might want to set up Group Policies that prevent this happening.
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You can't copy PST files while in use.

PST files SHOULD be on the local machine as Microsoft specifically don't support PST files on Network sahres. See:-

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019]

and

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/01/21/network-stored-pst-files-don-t-do-it.aspx [http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/01/21/network-stored-pst-files-don-t-do-it.aspx]

If you are using Exchange Server you might want to set up Group Policies that prevent this happening.

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We have about 18- 20 users in network using MS Outlook with pst files being created on individual systems.<br />
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I want to take backup of each of these files on a particular machine with in same network &amp;&nbsp;most importantly when these are still in <u><b>USE. </b></u><br />
Is there any way or software which enables this....
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We have about 18- 20 users in network using MS Outlook with pst files being created on individual systems.

I want to take backup of each of these files on a particular machine with in same network & most importantly when these are still in USE. 
Is there any way or software which enables this....

PST file copy

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Outlook

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