I manage windows server2003, i want the users to automatically backup?

Question

there outlook files onto thier folder on the shared drive, how do i configure that?the users have xp machines

Answer 1

In Active Directory you need to ensure their account has a home drive on server. Then use Group Policy to ensure their 'My Documents' folder re-directs to that home drive. By default applications will save documents to the correct place. Finally you could explore Offline Files in Windows XP, but it adds latency when logging on and logging off. Good luck.

Answer 2

There are several elegant solutions, but they require 3rd party applications. Using strictly W2K3, the easiest thing to do would be to create a backup job, select the files/folders you want backed up from the networked computers, then point the backup to save to your server. Then, go to scheduled tasks and add the backup job to a daily schedule.