Win8 How to manually modify the default OST data file location for Outlook 2013

Many times, an enterprise's Exchange Server uses MAPI or Exchange Server caching mode to communicate with the client's outlook, and by default, the piece is stored in the location: Documents and Settingsuser NameLocal settingsapplication Datamicrosoftoutlook. With the use of time, the file will continue to increase, occupy a large number of C partition disk space; However, when using Outlook2013 to create a new email account, its data files (. ost files) are always saved in the C-disk default directory, which occupies the space of C disk. When you enter Outlook by default, you find the location where the. ost file is saved in the settings option, which seems to be impossible to modify! In view of this, provide you with a way to change the path of the data file in order to free up the C partition disk space.

1. Download the Office Customization Tool (OCT)

Everyone chooses 32-bit or 64-bit according to their version, followed by 64-bit as an example;

2. After downloading, run 64-bit "Admintemplates_64bit.exe", will prompt you to choose to extract folder, find a folder decompression can be like temp;

3. Enter your decompression Temp folder, enter the ADMX folder, copy the "outlk15.admx" File and "ZH-CN" folder to "C:windowspolicydefinitions", if your system disk is not C, please modify your own letter

4, press win key +r, enter "gpedit.msc" start Group Policy, as shown in the following figure, modify the path!

5. Delete the original Outlook account (note the backup data), create a new account, the data file is already in the location you modified.