that's very weird because as far as I can see it has worked this way
wonderfully for years... the data loss can occure if you dont backup
the network once in a while or if you have to have all data including
current day always up to date if you have a power surge or whatever -
both of which can lead to data loss anyhow on any system. :-\

Oren


On Jan 2, 4:45 am, "Diane Poremsky" wrote:
Storing pst on network drives is not supported and can lead to data loss.

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"Oren" wrote in message

...

Hello,
I help in managing a pretty large network. As we are sadly using
pretty old computers people tend to crash\change computers pretty
often. To prevent large data loss they save important mail either on
the exchange server or in a personal folder the .pst file of which
usually should sit on their private network folder. I have a small
scripting applet running on each computer capturing a snapshot of the
computer status and saving it to a database on the network. I would
like it to also add a column for the location of the outlook data
files, so that I can see which users save their .pst files locally
instead of on the network.
In order to do that I need to know how the locations of the data files
in outlook are saved. I would suspect that it involves the registry
somehow, which is not a problem, but what I have found seemed to be a
bit too user personalized. I would appreciate any help in this, even
if it would mean that the script would have to jump from one key to
another in order to find the required information...

Thanks a lot,

Oren