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Joe - 26 Jul 2005 19:12 GMT

Hello Everyone,
I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
was removed from the domain and added to a peer to peer group properly. The
user originally use to log in to the domain profile and access her Outlook
email.We never manually backed up and exported her pst file from this domain
user account. I have since created a new local user account for the peer to
peer workgroup and transferred her my docs and favorites into it. Is there
a way for me to access and get a default archive.pst copy of her old outlook
contacts and emails from her original domain user profile? I thinking of
using windows explorer, but to not know the actual default outlook archive
path for this file. Thank you in advance for any suggestions.

Joe

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Dave Patrick - 26 Jul 2005 19:25 GMT

You can import the *.pst

The default store for the *.pst file is;
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

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| Hello Everyone,
| I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
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| Joe

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usasma - 26 Jul 2005 19:38 GMT

I believe that you've got to access the Security properties of this file and
take ownership of it before you can do anything with it.

> Hello Everyone,
> I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
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> Joe

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Vagabond Software - 26 Jul 2005 23:26 GMT

> Hello Everyone,
> I have a user who had an xp pro pc joined to a 2003 domain . The machine
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> Joe

Dave has responded with the pathname for the PST file. I am responding to
let you know that it will not be that easy if she was an Exchange Server
mail client while on the domain.

If you do not see what you expect in the PST file and there exists, in the
same location, an OST file. Let us know.

Good Luck,

Carl

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