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Network PST Confusion
All,
I'm a bit confused! This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Netowkr PSTs are bad. Yet another by MS (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm) supports the use of Network PSTs. If PSTs are no longer supported on network stroage, what is the recommended strategy nowadays for users to have access to mail in their personal archive? I know that by using some sort of 'near-line' storage 3rd party product I can 'automatically' archive mail based on age or size but these solutions are expensive. This is why in the past network stored PSTs were perfect for giving users access to thier archive, no matter where they sat. OWA is great for checking new mail but once again there is no access to a users' PST archive. If anyone knows what the recommended approach is, without shelling out for 3rd party products, please enlighten me! |
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Network PST Confusion
As the KB article says, "The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term,
continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment." This article is really aimed at daily use of .pst files as a primary data sore. I think the overall attitude is that storing .pst files on a network drive is technically feasible, but discouraged. I see no reason not to use it for personal archives, but you should show users close the archive file when they're not using it. Archive files should not be in continuous use. ..pst files are also not a viable solution for the type of archives that many corporates are required to keep for legal purposes. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "spooky" wrote in message ... All, I'm a bit confused! This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Netowkr PSTs are bad. Yet another by MS (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm) supports the use of Network PSTs. If PSTs are no longer supported on network stroage, what is the recommended strategy nowadays for users to have access to mail in their personal archive? I know that by using some sort of 'near-line' storage 3rd party product I can 'automatically' archive mail based on age or size but these solutions are expensive. This is why in the past network stored PSTs were perfect for giving users access to thier archive, no matter where they sat. OWA is great for checking new mail but once again there is no access to a users' PST archive. If anyone knows what the recommended approach is, without shelling out for 3rd party products, please enlighten me! |
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Network PST Confusion
Many thanks for your reply Sue.
I'm going to carry this on in microsoft.public.outlook.general as I accidently placed it here in 'contacts' |
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Network PST Confusion
Sue,
sorry that i contradict the article of microsoft. I wrote this also the first time for the outlook power magazin: http://www.outlookpower.com/issues/i...001210002.html To share outlook pst files in a network and to use it also in an enterprise environment is for our solution with until now more than 3.500 customers also no problem. Not for 2 users and not for 150 users like Bosch Dieselsystems in Vienna our referenc customer. The fact is, that there are more and more alternative solutions for outlook sharing )based on PST sharing or synchronization solution like netfolders) on the market and maybe (my meaning), MS say now, this is not a secure method. First they say it is a solution, 2 years later they say it is not a solution? Why? Our experience is, that our customers have no problem to share the PST files in a network. -- Oliver Vukovics Public OutLook: Outlook Groupware without Exchange Public SyncTool: Outlook PST Notebooksynchronization Awarded on CeBIT 2003 and 2004: www.outlookstore.com Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: As the KB article says, "The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment." This article is really aimed at daily use of .pst files as a primary data sore. I think the overall attitude is that storing .pst files on a network drive is technically feasible, but discouraged. I see no reason not to use it for personal archives, but you should show users close the archive file when they're not using it. Archive files should not be in continuous use. .pst files are also not a viable solution for the type of archives that many corporates are required to keep for legal purposes. "spooky" wrote in message ... All, I'm a bit confused! This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Netowkr PSTs are bad. Yet another by MS (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm) supports the use of Network PSTs. If PSTs are no longer supported on network stroage, what is the recommended strategy nowadays for users to have access to mail in their personal archive? I know that by using some sort of 'near-line' storage 3rd party product I can 'automatically' archive mail based on age or size but these solutions are expensive. This is why in the past network stored PSTs were perfect for giving users access to thier archive, no matter where they sat. OWA is great for checking new mail but once again there is no access to a users' PST archive. If anyone knows what the recommended approach is, without shelling out for 3rd party products, please enlighten me! |
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Network PST Confusion
Roady and I asked MS about this earlier in the week, and the official
position of Microsoft Support is that placing a .pst file on a network volume is not a supported configuration, as the earlier cited KB article says (and in contradiciton to the RK article). That said, we all know that people do it and that the world hasn't ended. But if they have problems with file corruption, they'll get no support from Microsoft if the .pst file was on a network drive. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Oliver Vukovics" wrote in message ... Sue, sorry that i contradict the article of microsoft. I wrote this also the first time for the outlook power magazin: http://www.outlookpower.com/issues/i...001210002.html To share outlook pst files in a network and to use it also in an enterprise environment is for our solution with until now more than 3.500 customers also no problem. Not for 2 users and not for 150 users like Bosch Dieselsystems in Vienna our referenc customer. The fact is, that there are more and more alternative solutions for outlook sharing )based on PST sharing or synchronization solution like netfolders) on the market and maybe (my meaning), MS say now, this is not a secure method. First they say it is a solution, 2 years later they say it is not a solution? Why? Our experience is, that our customers have no problem to share the PST files in a network. -- Oliver Vukovics Public OutLook: Outlook Groupware without Exchange Public SyncTool: Outlook PST Notebooksynchronization Awarded on CeBIT 2003 and 2004: www.outlookstore.com Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: As the KB article says, "The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment." This article is really aimed at daily use of .pst files as a primary data sore. I think the overall attitude is that storing .pst files on a network drive is technically feasible, but discouraged. I see no reason not to use it for personal archives, but you should show users close the archive file when they're not using it. Archive files should not be in continuous use. .pst files are also not a viable solution for the type of archives that many corporates are required to keep for legal purposes. "spooky" wrote in message ... All, I'm a bit confused! This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Netowkr PSTs are bad. Yet another by MS (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm) supports the use of Network PSTs. If PSTs are no longer supported on network stroage, what is the recommended strategy nowadays for users to have access to mail in their personal archive? I know that by using some sort of 'near-line' storage 3rd party product I can 'automatically' archive mail based on age or size but these solutions are expensive. This is why in the past network stored PSTs were perfect for giving users access to thier archive, no matter where they sat. OWA is great for checking new mail but once again there is no access to a users' PST archive. If anyone knows what the recommended approach is, without shelling out for 3rd party products, please enlighten me! |
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Hi Sue,
[...] But if they have problems with file corruption, they'll get no support from Microsoft if the .pst file was on a network drive. What is a network drive? Only with a domain controller or also in a workgroup?. If i have a Server and i move my PST file to the server and I work with this PST file on this server, also to save it with a central backupsystem I didnīt get any support by MS if the PST will be corrupted? My PST file is located on a Win2k server and i have also a Dial in connect from home to this PST file, it is also not supported by MS? After 7 years (beginning with Outlook 97), MS find out that they get problems with a network PST file? It is very fast, I think. What do they tell 2 user networks who use a briefcase. Buy Exchange, because no other network system is supported by us? I would have a lot of questions if I would use it. Normally I must be glad that our program use the server PST files as a local PST file and only our server is the network access. So our "network" PST files must be supported my MS :-))).(?) -- Oliver Vukovics Public OutLook: Outlook Groupware without Exchange Public SyncTool: Outlook PST Synchronization (coming soon) www.outlookstore.com Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Roady and I asked MS about this earlier in the week, and the official position of Microsoft Support is that placing a .pst file on a network volume is not a supported configuration, as the earlier cited KB article says (and in contradiciton to the RK article). That said, we all know that people do it and that the world hasn't ended. But if they have problems with file corruption, they'll get no support from Microsoft if the .pst file was on a network drive. "Oliver Vukovics" wrote in message ... Sue, sorry that i contradict the article of microsoft. I wrote this also the first time for the outlook power magazin: http://www.outlookpower.com/issues/i...001210002.html To share outlook pst files in a network and to use it also in an enterprise environment is for our solution with until now more than 3.500 customers also no problem. Not for 2 users and not for 150 users like Bosch Dieselsystems in Vienna our referenc customer. The fact is, that there are more and more alternative solutions for outlook sharing )based on PST sharing or synchronization solution like netfolders) on the market and maybe (my meaning), MS say now, this is not a secure method. First they say it is a solution, 2 years later they say it is not a solution? Why? Our experience is, that our customers have no problem to share the PST files in a network. -- Oliver Vukovics Public OutLook: Outlook Groupware without Exchange Public SyncTool: Outlook PST Notebooksynchronization Awarded on CeBIT 2003 and 2004: www.outlookstore.com Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: As the KB article says, "The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment." This article is really aimed at daily use of .pst files as a primary data sore. I think the overall attitude is that storing .pst files on a network drive is technically feasible, but discouraged. I see no reason not to use it for personal archives, but you should show users close the archive file when they're not using it. Archive files should not be in continuous use. .pst files are also not a viable solution for the type of archives that many corporates are required to keep for legal purposes. "spooky" wrote in message ... All, I'm a bit confused! This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Netowkr PSTs are bad. Yet another by MS (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm) supports the use of Network PSTs. If PSTs are no longer supported on network stroage, what is the recommended strategy nowadays for users to have access to mail in their personal archive? I know that by using some sort of 'near-line' storage 3rd party product I can 'automatically' archive mail based on age or size but these solutions are expensive. This is why in the past network stored PSTs were perfect for giving users access to thier archive, no matter where they sat. OWA is great for checking new mail but once again there is no access to a users' PST archive. If anyone knows what the recommended approach is, without shelling out for 3rd party products, please enlighten me! -- Oliver Vukovics Outlook im Netzwerk ohne Exchange: Public OutLook: Outlook PST Synchronisation for Notebooks: Public SyncTool Empfohlen von der PC Pro. 11/2003: www.outlookstore.de |
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Network PST Confusion
From what I've been able to gather, .pst files are supported only on the
local drives of the machine running Outlook. If you access a .pst file on another machine, you're in an unsupported configuration. It doesn't matter what kind of network it is. Assuming that you're using the Briefcase to make a local copy of a .pst file on another machine, that would be fine, because Outlook would be working from the local copy. Any other system that copies the .pst file to the local drive before Outlook opens it would also be fine. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "Oliver Vukovics" wrote in message ... Hi Sue, [...] But if they have problems with file corruption, they'll get no support from Microsoft if the .pst file was on a network drive. What is a network drive? Only with a domain controller or also in a workgroup?. If i have a Server and i move my PST file to the server and I work with this PST file on this server, also to save it with a central backupsystem I didnīt get any support by MS if the PST will be corrupted? My PST file is located on a Win2k server and i have also a Dial in connect from home to this PST file, it is also not supported by MS? After 7 years (beginning with Outlook 97), MS find out that they get problems with a network PST file? It is very fast, I think. What do they tell 2 user networks who use a briefcase. Buy Exchange, because no other network system is supported by us? I would have a lot of questions if I would use it. Normally I must be glad that our program use the server PST files as a local PST file and only our server is the network access. So our "network" PST files must be supported my MS :-))).(?) Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: Roady and I asked MS about this earlier in the week, and the official position of Microsoft Support is that placing a .pst file on a network volume is not a supported configuration, as the earlier cited KB article says (and in contradiciton to the RK article). That said, we all know that people do it and that the world hasn't ended. But if they have problems with file corruption, they'll get no support from Microsoft if the .pst file was on a network drive. "Oliver Vukovics" wrote in message ... Sue, sorry that i contradict the article of microsoft. I wrote this also the first time for the outlook power magazin: http://www.outlookpower.com/issues/i...001210002.html To share outlook pst files in a network and to use it also in an enterprise environment is for our solution with until now more than 3.500 customers also no problem. Not for 2 users and not for 150 users like Bosch Dieselsystems in Vienna our referenc customer. The fact is, that there are more and more alternative solutions for outlook sharing )based on PST sharing or synchronization solution like netfolders) on the market and maybe (my meaning), MS say now, this is not a secure method. First they say it is a solution, 2 years later they say it is not a solution? Why? Our experience is, that our customers have no problem to share the PST files in a network. -- Oliver Vukovics Public OutLook: Outlook Groupware without Exchange Public SyncTool: Outlook PST Notebooksynchronization Awarded on CeBIT 2003 and 2004: www.outlookstore.com Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] wrote: As the KB article says, "The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment." This article is really aimed at daily use of .pst files as a primary data sore. I think the overall attitude is that storing .pst files on a network drive is technically feasible, but discouraged. I see no reason not to use it for personal archives, but you should show users close the archive file when they're not using it. Archive files should not be in continuous use. .pst files are also not a viable solution for the type of archives that many corporates are required to keep for legal purposes. "spooky" wrote in message ... All, I'm a bit confused! This article (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019) says Netowkr PSTs are bad. Yet another by MS (http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/xp/four/outd05.htm) supports the use of Network PSTs. If PSTs are no longer supported on network stroage, what is the recommended strategy nowadays for users to have access to mail in their personal archive? I know that by using some sort of 'near-line' storage 3rd party product I can 'automatically' archive mail based on age or size but these solutions are expensive. This is why in the past network stored PSTs were perfect for giving users access to thier archive, no matter where they sat. OWA is great for checking new mail but once again there is no access to a users' PST archive. If anyone knows what the recommended approach is, without shelling out for 3rd party products, please enlighten me! -- Oliver Vukovics Outlook im Netzwerk ohne Exchange: Public OutLook: Outlook PST Synchronisation for Notebooks: Public SyncTool Empfohlen von der PC Pro. 11/2003: www.outlookstore.de |
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