Hi.
I want to restore .pst from backups to their twenty users. I know how to do this manually, but rather than doing this all by hand (over twenty users and three XP client plus SBS 2011 Essentials server) I want to automate the progress.
The backups are on a shared folder where they can be copied to each computer's hard-drive by a run-once script. Client computers have a fresh Outlook 2010 (retail). I made the script to copy the .pst file from the network location and place it to the default
Outlook 2010 folder where it creates the .pst files ((C:\%USERPROFILE%\yadda yadda\)) with the idea that when a user opens up the Outlook 2010, it'd use the retrieved .pst file and the user doesn't have to do anything.
Yeah, it doesn't work that way. Apparently if the default .pst file already exists, Outlook simply creates another one with different name when it's opened for the first time. I recall it actually does this to different location as well (My Documents folder?).
I'd still have to add the accounts by hand.
So how can I solve this dilemma? I suppose I'd have to edit some Outlook registry key to force it to work?
We don't have Exchange nor Office 360.
Oh, and the backup .pst files are from Outlook 2007. But from what I have gathered that shouldn't be issue.