Outlook 2002 and PST files 1

[gazzanewpy]

I am using Exchange 2000 with Outlook 2002 on the client stations. Whenever we open Outlook it wants to open a default PST file but Exchange is not creating them. At present I have to use a PRF file to open up outlook properly but this causes headaches for all the users (1000+). Please can someone tell me how to get Outlook to stop trying to open a PST and go directly to Exchange mailbox?

Ideally I want to be able to push this from the group policy of Windows 2000 or at least any amend from the server. I do NOT want to run a PRF on startup- this is a school we are talking about and I don't need the kids being straight into email on log-on.

Thanks for any helpyou can give!

 

[Marcs41]

Exchange does not create PST files, Outlook does.
It looks like you set it up to Deliver messages to a local file, but the file is not there.
Check in control panel - mail, choose the profile and set the message delivery to Mailbox (that means, leave mail on exchange). If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too

 

[gazzanewpy]

Thanks for this. The only thing is that I cannot find how to set this through the group policies. Any idea how I can push this out to all my users (around 1200+)?

 

[Marcs41]

Never did it, but I seem to remember there a Office samples policies, I think in the Resource kits. If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too