Determine who is opening a .PST file from a network drive on the local network?

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Published on 2010-02-23T17:56:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/14 20:55 UTC
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Our system admin has been struggling with the issue of our network getting completely locked up when users open PST files from network drives. Apparently Microsoft is aware of this problem but there is no fix for it.

The entire local network is unable to use Outlook while this file is being opened (which may take hours). Is there a way to determine which user is opening the file instead of forcing everyone in the office to close outlook (like a traffic monitor or something)?

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