Dealing with .pst Files

For Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 can support a greater personal folders (. Pst) files than earlier versions - up to 33TB. In view of the possibility of archive or export. pst files may be large enough to increase the exclusion of other data the user's hard drive, you may want to look at again. pst file to use in your organization. Outlook 2003, you can use Group Policy to control the size of the old and new. pst file. Even if you are not planning to move to Outlook 2003 any time soon, know how to use Outlook. pst file, and you can disable the use of an earlier version can come in handy.

Use Outlook. pst file you are more likely than the achievement. The most familiar use is an independent user. pst file, not the Exchange mailbox as the default information store. Users can usually create more. pst file to open Outlook's automatic archiving function, which the old items. regular schedule pst file, or through the use of the file, import and export data export orders. pst file. Outlook also automatically creates a. pst file, if the user adds an IMAP4 or Hotmail account to his or her e-mail profile; Outlook use this. pst file to store the local cache of the IMAP or Hotmail e-mail account. Finally, Outlook 2003 to create a new one. pst file, if a user views a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) events or contacts list, and click the "Link to Outlook" link; this. pst file contains the local copy of SharePoint links list.

Provide some control over it. pst file use, Outlook 98 and later support DisablePST registry values. This DWORD value is in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 11.0 \ Outlook registry subkey in in Outlook 2003; change "11.0" to "10.0" in the Outlook 2002, "9.0" in the Outlook 2000, or "8.0 "The Outlook 98. The DisablePST value does not exist by default, so you need to buy, if you want to disable. pst file. Allowable value is 1 (disabled) and 0 (enabled, default).

DisablePST initial use of an earlier version of Outlook 2002 in, Outlook 2000, the Outlook 98 and in order to prevent users from archiving and export or import. pst file. DisablePST 1 set of these versions of these functions shut down and disable the creation of new. pst file from the file, the new menu. User account configuration in the enterprise / working group model, however, still be able to add new or existing. pst file to their email profile (through the file, Data File Management dialog box or in Outlook 2002 the tools, services dialog box in Outlook 2000 or Outlook 98), therefore some of the Ad Hoc Committee. pst file use is still possible in these versions.

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