Roaming Profiles with Outlook on two machines - one with the userprofile on C:\ and one on D:\

[mr.john_doe]

Hello,

while deploying some new virtual machines we encountered a problem with roaming profiles, Outlook 2016 (with Exchange) and different paths to the local user profile:

On our physical machines the default user path is set on C:\users. The virtual machines (and also some labs) are using D:\. All share one roaming profile. Now we encountered the problem that when an user opens Outlook on the other machines (meaning first on the machine with C:\users, than the machine with D:\) Outtlook couldn't find the OST-path because it search on the other path. So when a user logged on and configured Outlook on a machine where c:\users is the default profile path it expects the OSTs on every machine on c:\users. So it demands the OST also on the other machine in the C:\users ... folder even if there is another default path set.

So is there a way to set the OST-path dynamic by default (meant %userpath% instead of fixed paths)? We have about 1000 users so a solution for everyone by hand would be tricky ...

Regards

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