Adding Personal Stores to a PRF

Most users will be happy just to use a PRF to create and recreate email accounts. You'll need to add the Outlook Address Book service, or remember to remember to add it from Outlook later, otherwise Outlook uses the default services and file locations. If you want your PSTs in different locations, create a PRF.

Sample PRF with PSTs configured

Sections 2 and 4 deal with the Personal Stores and Address book services.

 

Section 1  - Profile Defaults

[General]

DefaultStore=Service3 Which PST should be the default message store? Use the Service name that corresponds to the PST

 

Section 2 - Services in Profile

This section is pretty straight forward. You'll have one service entry per personal store or address book in your profile. Outlook 2003's Unicode PST is "Unicode Personal Folders" while the Outlook97/2002 (ANSI) format is just "Personal Folders"

[Service List]
;ServiceX=Microsoft Outlook Client
Service1=Personal Folders
Service2=Unicode Personal Folders
Service3=Unicode Personal Folders
Service4=Outlook Address Book

 

 

Section 4 - Default values for each service.

[Service1] Service name, corresponds with the services listed in Section 2.
UniqueService=No Are you limited to one of this service type in a profile? Answer No for PSTs.
Name=My Personal Folders Service name. For PST, this is the display name in the profile.
PathToPersonalFolders=%USERPROFILE%\local settings\
application data\microsoft\outlook\outlook.pst		 Where is the pst stored and what is the filename? By default, it's in the user profile.
EncryptionType=0x80000000 Encrpytion type:
0x80000000 = No encryption
0x40000000 = Compressible encryption, the default (ANSI) or
0x50000000 (Unicode)***
0x20000000 = High encryption

Outlook Address Book service does not need any parameters, it just needs added to the profile:

[Service4]

***Note: The CIW uses the wrong encrytion code for Unicode psts and you'll need to change it from 0x40000000 to 0x50000000.

How to add email accounts to a PRF: Understanding a PRF

Also see Tips for using Outlook 2002 .prf files to configure profiles
Customizing Outlook Profiles by Using PRF Files