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 Administrator's 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/
Symantec's support page specifically for Enterprise Vault for Exchange.
http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_EVME.htm
Symantec's home page for Enterprise Vault. A few white papers and stuff.
http://www.veritas.com/kvs/
MSExchange.Org's 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
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"Jeff Pitsch"
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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
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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?
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