- Backing up Outlook data on laptops in a MS 3k domain without Excha
- Posted by rich on June 20th, 2007
We have several laptop users who are in the office infrequently throughout
the week. All laptops have domain membership with roaming profiles and
offline file synchronization active. This way, their profiles and data are
synchronized with a server during logon/logoff. But offline file synch
doesn’t let you target files like Outlook’s .PST file because of the nature
of the file. I want to automate the backup of their .PST files so that backup
happens during logon but that this doesn’t interfere with Offline Synch
tasks. I would like it to be transparent to the end user and silently fail if
they are logging on outside of the network.
- Posted by SBS Rocker on June 20th, 2007
Well I assume you do backup your Exchange server on a daily basis? What you
should be doing is configuraing those laptops in a "Cache" mode. This keeps
a copy on the Exchange server and synchs up ecerytime they log onto the
network.
"rich" <rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by rich on June 20th, 2007
we do not have an exchange server
"SBS Rocker" wrote:
- Posted by Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] on June 21st, 2007
rich <rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
I suggest you install one. POP accounts and PST files aren't reallhy
suitable for corporate networks.
That said, you could set up a batch file to copy their PST files to their
home directories/etc and have them manually run them. Or check out third
party sync stuff which tends to work better than offline files anyway (I
like SecondCopy from www.centered.com).
