Login script to backup pst files on remore machines?

[realized]

Our office uses a UNIX mail server in another location. Outlook is configured for POP3/SMTP. All the data is stored on the client’s c:\documents and settings\login\local settings\application data\Microsoft\outlook\*.

What’s a good way of going about backing up everything on each machine on a network? I was thinking a login script but moving 1GB~ or so per machine on login will cause a 10min+ login time probably... Or I could copy it to another spot on the HD, let the user login, and then copy the copy...

But I am sure you guys have better ideas =)

Thanks

[allen2]

You should use offline folders. They can be assigned administratively with a GPO but you'd have to modify where outlook store his pst (storage should be directly on the network). Offline folders can be synchronized automatically at logout and at login.

This way when people have access to the server where their pst are stored, they will store all mails straight to the server and then when they logout, the synchronization will make a copy on people computer. So if they have a mobile computer, they will be able to access the pst even when not connected to network.

To have experienced this in a big company, either way you'll choose; you have to make people of your company use archive pst. This way the only thing that will be synchronized should not be too big except the first time the archive is created. Of course each time you modify the archive pst you'll have to synchronize it again. You'll have to explain this to outlook users in order they take the time each month to filter which mails will go to the archive.