I wouldn't recommend keeping them on CD as such (IOW, primary copy on CD). What you could do to ease matters is get a single license version of something like the Servant Salamander file manager(http://www.altap.cz), which has the option to automatically remove the Read-Only attribute when copying files from CD to Hard Disk.
Alternately, you might just be better off getting a removable hard disk (USB 2.0 or Firewire preferably, but USB 1.1 will do) and storing the PSTs there. He gets the portability he wants, you get to not worry about it so much (possibly set it up so that he has a one click shortcut to backup the drive to a file (if his desktop is Win2k)on the server for data redundancy). -----Original Message----- From: Desiree Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 07:15 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Personal Folders Suggestions to Users PST's because he's got approx. 4 GB of data between all his folders now, and is at about 95MB on his Inbox sitting in Exchange. We would be better served to upgrade to E2K, for a couple other reasons other than simply mailbox sizes, but that's not in the budget at this point. I know the duplicating of the PST's is problematic, I have told him this, but he wants me to try and get it to work somehow. With my small folders I'm testing with it does work, changing Read Only attributes, but I'm thinking when it gets to the point of him moving things on his own it's just going to be a big mess... I am still thinking the best solution for him is to simply have the Personal Folders on CD's that he can slip into the CD-ROM either place. Is it a good practice to keep moving files to a writable CD? How many times would be too many? I have two of my Archives on CD, but I don't keep writing to them, I simply access them when I need to refer back to something. Thanks for your support... -----Original Message----- From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Personal Folders Suggestions to Users Why the need for PSTs, if I may ask? They needlessly complicate the situation. (BTW, the quick fix for his problem with the CD copies is that they need to be writeable. When he copied them ,the Read-Onl attribute was carried over.) HOWEVER, your description of him wanting to be able to move items into the PST at work AND at home is problematic. He'll need to be replacing at least one copy of the things everytime he makes a change. He'd be much better served with everything in the Exchange store, and either a VPN+Offline Folders setup or Secure IMAP (if he ONLY needs the mail component). -----Original Message----- From: Desiree Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 06:38 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Personal Folders Suggestions to Users I wonder if anyone might have a suggestion or two for the following dilemma... Exchange Server 5.5, Outlook 2000 I am trying to give my boss options that will work for him to keep the size of his pst files manageable along with being able to get at the files easily... Some of his pst's have been to hell and back, but I've been able to get at them somehow each time there has been an issue to this point... I thought I was there with splitting up his Personal Folders by year, etc. and showing him how to check the size so they don't get too big. He claims he goes into all his mail at different times and wants it all to be accessible all the time. He's now decided he wants to be able to pull up the same Personal Folders at home that he does here at work. Then he also wants to move new items into those Folders both here and at home in one step. He decided that it would work so he went and copied his pst file to a CD and copied it to his hard drive at home, he couldn't get it open... I haven't been to his house but will most likely make a trip over there. So, I've been trying to come up with a solution that would help him without too much work on his part... So, I've tested with a small meaningless Personal Folder in my account, I find it easiest in this scenario to copy messages into Personal Folders here at work, then to actually move the messages into the folder from my Inbox when I get home, this would mean going through mail twice and I'm sure that won't go over well. I have also suggested that he keep Personal Folders on CD's, but he doesn't like that idea. I imagine there will be a ton of messages, why doesn't he get a laptop, he has one, but he likes his two Dell Precision workstations and would rather keep his mail on them... He's particular about the way he does things and likes what he likes, which, at times can make my job a bit difficult... I know I'm not the only one. Desiree Happy Friday:-) List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
