RE: SBS 2K3 R2 and Outlook

Hello Eric,

Thank you for posting here.

According to your description, I understand that the new SBS domain user
account create a new user profile on client computer. If I have
misunderstood the problem, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Based on my research, we have create user account and computer account for
SBS clients thru Add Users Wizard. Then, we can join the client computer to
SBS domain thru Connectcomputer Wizard. The Connectcomputer Wizard can also
transfer the local user profile to domain user profile.

1. Create a domain account and a computer account for client
a. Open Server Management console on SBS
b. Extend to Users node
c. Click Add a User link in right pane
d. Go through the Add User Wizard, create domain user account and computer
account for the client

2. Join the client to SBS domain via connectcomputer
a. On the client, access the web page http://SBSname/connectomputer
b. Go through the wizard, assign the domain user account and the computer
account which created in step 1# to this client.
c. Reboot the client, and logon with the new domain user account.

You can transfer the user profile thru the connectcomputer wizard. Of
course, we can manually migrate the local profile to domain user profile:

1. Log on to the computer using an Administrator account.
2. Right-click My Computer , and then click Properties .
3. On the Advanced tab, click Settings under User Profiles pane, click the
local profile that contains the settings you want, and then click Copy To .

NOTE : The profile usually contains the name of the computer and the name
of the user account.

4. In the Copy profile to box, click Browse , and then browse to the
folder that contains the profiles. If the network path requires
credentials, if you manually enter the path, the profiles will not load.
The default folder for profiles is C:\Documents and Settings (for vista
C:\users).
5. Click the domain accounts folder, which by default has the Netbios name
of the domain appended to the username.
6. Click OK .
7. Click Change , add the appropriate permissions to the domain user
account so that it can use the profile, and then click OK until you return
to the desktop.

After you transfer the local user account to domain account, you will get
the same desktop, documents, Outlook profile and so on.

Additional, the auto-complete content when you input the email address in
Outlook will store in local file, we cannot import them to contacts.
However, we can backup and restore the auto-complete content to another
Outlook profile.

Based on my knowledge, the addresses are stored in an .nk2 file which is
used by Outlook to perform both the automatic name checking and the
automatic completion features. The .nk2 file is generated per Outlook
profile. To restore the addresses, we need to search for the .nk2 file of
the original profile with the name <Profile Name>.nk2, and then use it to
replace the <New Profile Name>.nk2 file. Please refer to the following
steps for more information.

Step 1: Search for and backup the original .nk2 file.
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1. Quit Outlook.
2. Start Microsoft Windows Explorer.
3. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
4. Under Advanced Settings, click to select the Show hidden files and
folders check box.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Start, point to Search, and then click All files or folders.
7. In the Search Companion box, type *.nk2 in the All or part of the file
name box: box.
8. In the Look In box, click to select your local hard disk.
9. Click Search.
10. The .nk2 file with the name of the original profile is what we look for.
By default, the file is located in the following folder in Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

The following article is for your reference.

287623 How to reset the nickname and the automatic completion caches in
Outlook
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=287623>

Step 2: Restore the .nk2 file.
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If you would like to use the original .nk2 file in the new Outlook profile,
please replace the <New Profile Name>.nk2 with the original .nk2 file. Then
you are able to use it.

If we cannot resolve the issue after we perform the above steps, please
kindly help me collect some information for further investigation:

1. What is your main concern of SBS?

2. What do you mean by "as was done in the past"?

3. What do you mean by "the setup cleansed the Documents and settings
folder"?

4. Gather MPS network report on SBS:

a. Download MPSrepot_network from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/b/1/bb139fcb-4aac-4fe5-a579-30b0bd9
15706/MPSRPT_NETWORK.EXE

b. Run MPSRPT_NETWORK.exe on the server box.

c. The tool will automatically collect the information. This procedure will
take 10~15 minutes.

d. Open Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder:
%SystemRoot%\MPSReports\Network\Reports\Cab\

e. Send the .cab file directly to me at v-terliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I hope these steps will give you some help.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Best regards,

Terence Liu(MSFT)

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| Setup a new server with SBS 2K3 R2 for a client. Allowed server to fully
| update on Microsoft update. Connected computers to server. Discovered
that
| the work stations actually set up complete account (including Outlook
email)
| on each wok station for the user, as opposed to my importing Outlook
email,
| contacts, etc., the desktop, and documents, as was done in the past.
|
| However, I discovered that the contacts were not imported to Outlook nor
| were the additional folders that the client had set up to sort email.
| Further, I found that the setup cleansed the Documents and settings
folder,
| removing all Outlook files except for the new .pst file it set up (which
is
| quite large).
|
| Noticed, that when clicking to start a new email and clicking on 'TO' and
| entering a letter, all of the client contacts beginning with the typed
| letter appear to choose from. How do I get all of these email addresses
| from the PST file in to contacts? And where do I find the additional
| folders that the client had?
|
| TIA,
| Eric
|
|
|

.

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