Topic: Roaming profiles and Outlook configuration

[nemtex]

Hi all,

I am running SME 6.5 and I have just got Roaming profiles up and running on all the machines on the network. Unfortunately I have encountered a snag with outlook and would like some advice.

I can login to my main computer (the one is set up my email on), everything is fine, I can load outlook and check and send e-mails etc, but when I log into another computer Outlook complains that the PST file/s are missing from the default location. This is in 'C:\Documents and Settings\username.DOMAINNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook' Somewhere along the folder tree the path is hidden (local settings) and this does not seem to be transfered into the profile stored on the server. Is it because this folder is hidden?

To move it is obviously not a huge problem but I dont really want to do this for everyones email. This leads me to another question, Is it possible to run a batch file for new users that will create an outlook mail account (IMAP) when they first log in? I would like to be able to setup profiles that contain preconfigured settings for Outlook I have read in posts on this forum that it is possible to create a default profile and store it in the netlogon share, could I configure outlook in this default share using something like %username% for the user name and a default password?

Any help would be greatly received

Thanks

James

[MSmith]

You'll be a LOT happier if you put everybody's My Documents tree on the SME server so it doesn't have to replicated down to the workstation each time.  You can, for instance, map each user's home directory to H: and point "My Documents" to H:.  Will make for much faster login.

[nemtex]

Yeah I have tried that but I do not want to have to configure all these settings and moved storage locations for a each user. What I would probably do is map home to \\server\userdir\mydocs and then locate email files in \\server\userdir\email. That way the email files are hidden from most users.

What I want though is a way of setting this up so that all new users automatically have this setup when they first log in, including email account profiles, is this possible?

[laurie_lewis]

Not sure on how many users you have etc but I have similar issues on my home network.  I have been searching for some ideas with the use of a login script that will alter all the settings on an initial login and then check them on each subsequent login.

The problem is I am struggling to understand how to do it with registry edits/settings from a batch file.

Just thought this approach might also solve your problems.  If anyone knows how or has some examples would like to see them

Laurie