Comments on: Logon Script: Move Local PST Files To Network Share

By: Microsoft Guy

Microsoft Guy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:01:28 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Your vbscript is amazing!

I’m having a slight issue with Outlook 2007. Currently, all of our workstations have the “Personal Folders” as the default mail folder in which all emails flow into. Whenever I run your script up to line 75 ( objOutlook.Session.RemoveStore objFolder), I get the following error message:

“You cannot close the mailbox that contains your calendar, contacts, and inbox.

Is there are way to force removal of that “Personal Folders”?

I really appreciate your help!
Thank you very much,
Bao Tran

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:42:33 +0000

Hi Mark,
We too experienced similar issues. However, we rewrote our original script and ended up with the one above which hasn’t given us the same grief as the original did. There are three main actions that occur in the script above:
1. Delete local stores
2. Move files
3. Add local stores back
Play around with pauses. It seems to make a world of difference. We found the issue seemed to be related to latency either on the system or on the network. Putting in more pauses fixed the issue (see line 98). Try adding a pause on line 105 and/or line 85.

By: MarkC

MarkC — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:17:49 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I’ve been looking for something like this to do exactly the same thing on our network.

I’ve made a few changes, so that it will work exactly how we want and also create a log file of what’s happened. The script works great, apart from one important thing that I’m stuck on..

It will move only the first PST it comes across in Outlook each time it is run. It doesn’t seem to either want to read the others in to the array or read others from the array.

My VBS skills are really weak (although getting better quickly!). I wondered if you could shed any light on this?

Many thanks, and well done on a great script!

Mark.