None of those solutions are exactly cheap. There's many bad reasons against PSTs, but in the end, in all my experiences, they work almost flawlessly locally, and on LAN's when running on SCSI storage, and they are free. I've never tried to run them on a SAN/NAS personally PS - If you get onto the ExchangeList hosted off Freelists, there have been many good dicussions recently on archiving solutions. There's at least 6 ot 7 to choose from. We have CommVault's product, but have not fired it up yet. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Saunders Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:39 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Outlook PST Files The best solution is to get rid of the PST's altogether by using an archiving solution. I believe that Enterprise Vault is by far the best solution out there. Enterprise Vault links of interest: The following knowledgebase article has links to all the V6 documentation http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/277782.htm Good documents to read are: â VERITAS Enterprise Vault 6.0 Introduction and Planning â Installing and Configuring Enterprise Vault 6.0 â Administratorâs Guide Enterprise Vault 6.0 Symantec forum for Enterprise Vault. This is the main forum. http://forums.veritas.com/discussions/forum.jspa?forumID=106 Tales from the Vault. Terrific Enterprise Vault site. http://vaulted.blog.co.uk/main/ Another very good site for Enterprise Vault support. Contains some good info under the White Papers section, and another good forum. http://www.udstech.com/ Symantecâs support page specifically for Enterprise Vault for Exchange. http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_EVME.htm Symantecâs home page for Enterprise Vault. A few white papers and stuff. http://www.veritas.com/kvs/ MSExchange.Orgâs message board for archiving. May contain some useful information. http://forums.msexchange.org/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=000266#000013 Hope that's enough information to convince you to get rid of the PST's. Cheers. Kind regards, Jeremy Saunders Senior Technical Specialist Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS) & Cerulean Global Technology Services (GTS) IBM Australia Level 2, 1060 Hay Street West Perth WA 6005 Visit us at http://www.ibm.com/services/au/its P: +61 8 9261 8412 F: +61 8 9261 8486 M: TBA E-mail: jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx "Jeff Pitsch" <jepitsch@xxxxxxx om> To Sent by: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx thin-bounce@freel cc ists.org Subject [THIN] Re: Outlook PST Files 02/05/2006 12:22 PM Please respond to thin It is probably the fact that PST's are not supported on network drives. The symptoms you are experiencing seem in line with that: Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/en-us Jeff Pitsch Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server Forums not enough? Get support from the experts at your business http://jeffpitschconsulting.com On 5/1/06, Turman, David C. <david_turman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Though not specifically a Term Server issue, I thought some smart person here could help. Our users run either Outlook XP or Outlook 2003 on Windows 2000 and Windows XP PCs'. We currently are running Exchange 2000. The users keep PST files out on their network shares, which reside on Windows 2003 Server Clusters (HP DL 585) and the disks are on a SCSI Fiber Attached EMC Clarion 300 CX SAN. The users will be in Outlook and when they try to get to a folder is a PST they get "The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists". And if they try to move something to or from the PST they get "Can't move items The file \\servername\filename.pst could not be accessed" If they click on one of the folders in the PST files a few times it may eventually open, or if they go to Explorer and click on the file from inside there it may. It seems that if they have the file on a SAN based drive it is much more susceptible to this. I know that MS does not support PST files on network drives, but this has been working fine for years, until we moved from fiber attached "local" disks and Windows 2000 to the Windows 2003 / EMC combo. Any ideas? bI+hR{.n+&Þ8zhVjØjzzZ0)i0zX+b