How to Create a PST on your Local Drive

How to Create a PST on your Local Drive

 

The following instructions will help you create a PST (Personal Storage file) on a Home drive to store important messages that might contain large attachments. It is a good practice to review your online mailbox in a regular basis, perhaps once a month, to move those important items onto the PST and delete any unwanted e-mails and attachments that that are being backup by our servers and taken up some valuable space.

Note: Items stored in the PST can only be accessed while you're connected to the network with your Outlook profile that you have setup following these steps. You will not be able to access the PST from an Outlook Web Access session or from a remote location using RPC over HTTP unless you have setup another PST for that remote Outlook profile.

Instructions to create and attach a PST in Outlook:

• Create a folder in the Local Drive or Network Share and label it as PST.
  
• Open Outlook
  
• Click on Tools – Accounts
  Settings
  
• Click on the Data
  Files tab
  
• Click on Add…
  
• Select Office Outlook Personal Folders File (.pst) and click OK
  
• Navigate to the Z drive and open the PST folder that you created on step 1
  
• Label the file, like "FirstName.pst" and click OK
  

  Then, you can name the file whatever you'd like. Ex: "My Personal Stuff" and you don't have to set a password. You can treat this PST like any other folder in Outlook. You can create other subfolders.
  

  Note: If you do set a password, you will be asked for that password every time you open Outlook and access the PST
  

• Click Close
  

Instructions to remove a PST from Outlook:

To remove a PST from Outlook, simply right click on the PST and select Close "My Personal Stuff"

By removing the PST from Outlook you have effectively detached the PST from Outlook, but the file remains in the \PST\ drive or location. You can then move the PST, or back it up or delete it if you wish.