The ,ost file is meant to live on the local drive since it is most often
used for laptops that travel. The .ost keeps a local copy of the mailbox
for users to synch when they return to the network. An .ost file on a
network is about as useful as Just for Men to Mr. Clean.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, asked:

| Hi
|
| We are about to swap our IMAP mail server with Exchange. Everything
| is going swimmingly, EXCEPT that we are using the Office Res Kit
| (2003) to change everyone's Outlook settings. We create a new
| profile with the Exchange settings in. We set the OST file to be on
| a DFS network share (\\waterline.co.uk\Office\Newport
| Mail\%Username%\Outlook.ost). This works fine for the first PC that
| a user logs into, however, any subsequent PCs that they log into
| presumably check if that file exists, see that it does and creates
| the Outlook.ost file on the local drive (C:\Documents and
| Settings\%Username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Outlook.ost).
|
| This is a pain, since, if people change PCs permanently, we want their
| OST file to still be on the server! I was under the impression it
| should just create an Outlook1.ost on the same network share... Is
| there any way to force it to do this?
|
| Cheers
|
| Chris