As I understand it, Google Apps deals with mail and calendar, but has
nothing which maps to Outlook Tasks (although G Calendar does do task
management poorly) or to Outlook Notes.
Part of the deployment of roaming profiles should be the examination of each
commonly used app and the determination of how to install/configure it in
the best way for the roaming profiles. Typically, the Local Settings
section is *not* replicated because it tends to get filled with temp files
and other replaceable things. With Outlook used against an IMAP server, the
PST file is replaceable.
I don't think it is just to blame the network guy for not figuring out that
you, after having selected Google Apps as appropriate for your company, use
the biggest Outlook feature *not* supported by Google Apps. If the use of
Outlook tasks is common at your company, Outlook should be implemented to
protect them. But unless tasks were specifically discussed, the network guy
can't be faulted for not considering them in the Outlook and RP
configuration.
BTW -- two thoughts on protecting your tasks. One is ToodleDo (
http://www.toodledo.com/), an internet-based task app that has a
sync-to-outlook agent. I use (and *really like*) it. The other is that you
should regularly export the tasks to the server or copy the PST file to the
server.
One caution .. I would *not* put the PST file into the roaming profile. It
gets corrupt far too easily.
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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
All,
Wednesday, for what reason we don't know, my windows roaming profile would
not load, meaning I could not sign on with my normal profile. Windows
helpfully made a temporary profile for me. Domains and roaming profiles
are
relatively new here, so I got The Network Consultant over to help fix
things.
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