Multiple TS environment: Outlook 2010 Cached Exchange Mode

I know there are related threads but there was never a resolution to the question as far as i can tell and my scenario is different than the others:
We have two load balanced Citrix terminal servers running Server 2008r2 with Office 2010 installed. I want to enable Cached Exchange mode for the TS profiles. We use Desktop Authority (formerly ScriptLogic) to control most user settings based on what user
they are and what computer they are logging into. On both servers we have put in a SSD drive mapped as D: where we will be caching the OST files. 
Through Desktop Authority i had set the default OST location and enabled cached exchange mode for a group of test users and it worked great when they first logged in. It cached where it needed to cache and all was well. But when that user logged off and
logged onto the other RDS server, their profiles would look for the OST on the server that is was first created on even though the default OST location was D: (independent of computer). I thought it would just recreate the OST on the new TS they were logging
into but it throws an error when launching outlook stating that it cannot find the OST becasue its looking for it on a "share" stored on the other TS.
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.

Hi,
In your scenario, I think this blog below will be helpful to you, you can try to change the .ost file location and check if this can be a fix:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/danstolts/archive/2012/11/07/how_2d00_to_2d00_change_2d00_default_2d00_data_2d00_file_2d00_ost_2d00_location_2d00_in_2d00_office_2d00_2013.aspx
Note: The article is written for Outlook 2013, but it also applies to Outlook 2010. The version of Outlook 2013 is 15.0, for Outlook 2010 it's 14.0.
Since I don't have Desktop Authority here, I'm not sure what settings it may control, you can contact their support to discuss this problem as well.
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