Roaming Profiles Windows 2003 With Outlook

[Graham Mckenzie]

we have office 2003 edition and roaming profiles what is
the best practice for roaming email accounts as well. we
have set up the roaming desktops they seem to work but
the users want there email settings and inbox to work
when they roam too


the clients configs are all the same

windows xp pro
office 2003

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

What do you have in the way of an e-mail server? If you're using Exchange,
it's very easy and you don't have to do anything special.

If you're storing e-mail in PST files, then you're stuck. Microsoft doesn't
recommend storing PST files on the network and they're generally too large
to copy to and from a workstation as part of a roaming profile.

Oli



"Graham Mckenzie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21d4001c45b96$94996780$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> we have office 2003 edition and roaming profiles what is
> the best practice for roaming email accounts as well. we
> have set up the roaming desktops they seem to work but
> the users want there email settings and inbox to work
> when they roam too
>
>
> the clients configs are all the same
>
> windows xp pro
> office 2003
>
>

[graham mckenzie]

thanks for your help it was pst files
so u recommend exchange

how easy is it with exchange 2003

and outlook 2003

appreciate the help


graham

>-----Original Message-----
>What do you have in the way of an e-mail server? If

you're using Exchange,

>it's very easy and you don't have to do anything special.
>
>If you're storing e-mail in PST files, then you're

stuck. Microsoft doesn't

>recommend storing PST files on the network and they're

generally too large

>to copy to and from a workstation as part of a roaming

profile.

>
>Oli
>
>
>
>"Graham Mckenzie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote in message

>news:21d4001c45b96$94996780$a501280a@phx.gbl...

>> we have office 2003 edition and roaming profiles what

is

>> the best practice for roaming email accounts as well.

we

>> have set up the roaming desktops they seem to work but
>> the users want there email settings and inbox to work
>> when they roam too
>>
>>
>> the clients configs are all the same
>>
>> windows xp pro
>> office 2003
>>
>>

>
>
>.
>

[graham mckenzie]

one more question can you make the msn messenger roam at
all


thanks

>-----Original Message-----
>we have office 2003 edition and roaming profiles what is
>the best practice for roaming email accounts as well. we
>have set up the roaming desktops they seem to work but
>the users want there email settings and inbox to work
>when they roam too
>
>
>the clients configs are all the same
>
>windows xp pro
>office 2003
>
>
>.
>

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

I'm not actually using Exchange 2003 yet, so I can't say how difficult or
easy it is. Much easier than Exchange 2000, if the things I'm hearing are
true. As far as the client settings and resolving your actual query are
concerned, it makes things very easy.

However, you have the added complexity of running an Exchange server to
contend with.

Oli


"graham mckenzie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22ad801c45dde$79589d70$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> thanks for your help it was pst files
> so u recommend exchange
>
> how easy is it with exchange 2003
>
> and outlook 2003
>
> appreciate the help
>
>
> graham

>>-----Original Message-----
>>What do you have in the way of an e-mail server? If

> you're using Exchange,

>>it's very easy and you don't have to do anything special.
>>
>>If you're storing e-mail in PST files, then you're

> stuck. Microsoft doesn't

>>recommend storing PST files on the network and they're

> generally too large

>>to copy to and from a workstation as part of a roaming

> profile.

>>
>>Oli
>>
>>
>>
>>"Graham Mckenzie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>

> wrote in message

>>news:21d4001c45b96$94996780$a501280a@phx.gbl.. .

>>> we have office 2003 edition and roaming profiles what

> is

>>> the best practice for roaming email accounts as well.

> we

>>> have set up the roaming desktops they seem to work but
>>> the users want there email settings and inbox to work
>>> when they roam too
>>>
>>>
>>> the clients configs are all the same
>>>
>>> windows xp pro
>>> office 2003
>>>
>>>

>>
>>
>>.
>>