O365, Outlook, Roaming and Mandatory profiles

[Jake-ST]

We moved are staff and student users to O365 over the last year.

 

Students are using mandatory profiles and access emails via OWA we also map OneDrive using a script.

 

Staff are using roaming profiles and access emails with Outlook 2013 currently no mapping for them.

 

I'm looking to move Staff to mandatory profiles but i want to keep Outlook 2013/16. I was planning to redirect the APPDATA folder to a hidden share on a file server as i can't see another way to push staff to mandatory profiles but allowing them to keep the mail profile or extra outlook settings.

 

Was wondering how over admins are managing O365 within a college or school?

 

Are end result is to completely remove network shares and have everything pushing to O365 or Sharepoint Online.

 

Cheers

 

J

[garethEds]

Hi Jake-ST,

 

Did you get anywhere with this? I want to revert back to offering Outlook 365 to staff but we don't now where to store the settings. We do not use a profile, but do have a Settings directory in each user space for things that need storing.

 

Can you tell Outlook 365 where to store it's settings?

 

Gareth