mandatory profiles and microsoft outlook how do you keep users settings

[round2it]

Current system is

Mandatory profile for users and they currently use a edited prf loaded from a shared location

obviously the prf is read only so they cant change it.

I want my users to be able to make changes to how outlook looks like view and colours etc

how can i acheive this.

are setting like the position of views icons etc stored in the prf file or somewhere else

as i could point the edited prf to the users home directory and alow changes but its the other information i dont know where it is stored.


any ideas?

[FN-GM]

You could use redirected App Data.

[round2it]

is it possible to redirect just the data for outlook to say the users home directory so it follws them round

[FN-GM]

is it possible to redirect just the data for outlook to say the users home directory so it follws them round

I am pretty sure its hard coded into Outlook. I dont think there is anything in the registry or anything.

[round2it]

do you think this would work

first of all setup outlook on a machine how i think best for the users copy this appdata into say the users home folder
possibly when they log on copy the appdata to c:\users\username\blah blahh


and then a log off script that copys the data from the c: drive back to the home area this should keep any changes they have made to the way outlook looks

what do you think

i am a bit reluctant to redirect app data currently as things are working quite well with the windows 7 deployment

[FN-GM]

Erm it might do, give it a try.

[round2it]

might slightly slow log on and log off but if it works