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PowerShell PST Location - 28.Sep.2009 5:40:41 PM

ostar

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Is it possible to change the PST file location for an Outlook 2003/2007 client using Powershell ?

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RE: PowerShell PST Location - 28.Sep.2009 5:54:31 PM

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Within the Outlook client? No. That's purely Outlook and has nothing to do with Exchange. Why would you think otherwise? Have you read something misleading like that?

If you mean whether you can specify the path to a PST file when you're doing the export-mailbox command then sure. See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998579.aspx for the syntax to specify the path.

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RE: PowerShell PST Location - 28.Sep.2009 6:16:31 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: mark@mvps.org

Within the Outlook client? No. That's purely Outlook and has nothing to do with Exchange. Why would you think otherwise? Have you read something misleading like that?

I'm trying to manipulate with powershell the PST file path as seen by Outlook.

I give an example:
PS > $ol = new-object -com outlook.application
PS > $ns = $ol.getNamespace("MAPI")
PS > $ns.stores
Result:
...
FilePath : C:\PST_File.pst
...

and here ends my powershell PST knowledge..
i appreciate any ideeas about modifying the PST FilePath for pointing to a new location.

thanks much

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RE: PowerShell PST Location - 29.Sep.2009 8:14:12 AM

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You cannot manipulate the path, the path is updated based on the PST location on disk. I guess you want to move it to another location, if so:

$ol = new-object -com outlook.application
$ns = $ol.getNamespace("MAPI")

$Destination = "\\server\share"

$ns.stores | where {$_.ExchangeStoreType -eq 3} | select StoreID,DisplayName,FilePath | foreach {
$pst = $ns.GetFolderFromID($_.StoreID)
$pstName = [io.path]::GetFileName($_.FilePath)
$ns.RemoveStore($pst)
Copy-Item -Path $_.FilePath -Destination $Destination | out-null
$ns.AddStore("$Destination\$pstName")
}

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