Chicago Endpoint Management User Group

Hello,

I cannot seem figure out or find a solution to excluding an OST from a PCT. We have excluded the .ost file type in our template but it still seems to pull it taking up more time and a ton of space. I think it is because we are also picking up other files in that Outlook folder like NK2? I guess a work around would be to add a job that deletes the .ost if present before the PCT...Currently using DS 6.9 SP5

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Could you upload the template file that you're using so that we could review it?  If any company info is included (like domain), you could exclude that prior to the upload if you wanted.

A little overview about the .ost files:

"...the Outlook team does not support those files moving between computers; they were never designed for portability and Outlook’s developers don’t want anyone copying them around. The only supported way to get an OST file is for Outlook to create it."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/02/11/usmt-ost-and-pst.aspx

Please could you post your pbt file?

Regards,

Thanks

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Win7Migration.txt   111 KB 1 version

Hi Canuck,

1) Make a backup of your MS Outlook.a2i (rename to .bkp);

2) Download and copy the custom MS Outlook.a2i to EN folder;

Could you please do a capture and distribute personality test with this custom definitions? Today I don´t have access to my virtual lab to test.

Regards,

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MS Outlook.zip   20 KB 1 version

Still brings over the .ost located in C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

Do I need to recomplie the pct package or anything? or just simply rename the Outlook.a2i and drop the new one in there? (which i did)

thanks!

Butted heads with a developer buddy to come up with this naughty little number. Deletes any .ost from all profiles on the machine. Adding this run script just before we take the PCT looks like it will do the trick. Thanks!

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Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = fso.GetFolder("C:\Documents and Settings")
Set colSubFolders = objFolder.Subfolders

For Each objSubfolder in colSubfolders
 Dim folderLocation
 folderLocation = "C:\Documents and Settings\" + objSubfolder.Name + "\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\"
 
 If fso.FolderExists (folderLocation) Then
 
 Set f = fso.GetFolder(folderLocation)
Set fc = f.Files 
For Each objFile In fc
 If fso.GetExtensionName(objFile) = "ost" then
   fso.DeleteFile(objFile)
  End If
   
Next

 End If
Next

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