[ms office - 2010] Can't get outlook 2010 settings to stick for network users

[reggiep]

Hi,

I have been playing with outlook on and off for network users, to connect to our live@edu accounts, for about 6 months but always give up, mainly as nobody has asked for it yet!

 

I am currently pretty close, as close as I have ever been.

 

My GPO redirects the users ost file to a folder in their documents and also creates a Autodiscover.xml.

 

The problem is that every time the user logs on and starts up outlook 2010 they enter their password thane have to wait a good three minutes. In this time a new ost file and Autodiscover.xml file are created?

 

Can anyone suggest what may be going wrong?

 

thanks

Edited February 7, 2012 by ZeroHour

[reggiep]

In this time a new ost file and Autodiscover.xml file are created?

 

Just to clarify. I mean it creates another autodiscover.xml and another ost file. So I end up with a folder with 2 files created for every time the user logs on.

[ben604]

Anyone with any ideas?