2 home PC's networked - 1 copy of outlook possibe?

[Garry Kennedy]

Hi folks,

Here's my problem ... i have two PC's in my house and thet are newworked,
but they both were stand-alone for a long time. First question - is it
possible to 'merge' the email folders on them (contacts already the same by
using phone / activesynch) and secondly, is it possible to have only one
copy of iutlook active in future, no matter which PC i work on (so all the
emails and replies will be in the same place )?

Many thanks and seasons greetings to all,

Garry
+353 87 238 5832
Ireland

 

[Brian Tillman]

Here's my problem ... i have two PC's in my house and thet are
newworked, but they both were stand-alone for a long time. First
question - is it possible to 'merge' the email folders on them
(contacts already the same by using phone / activesynch)
Yes.

and
secondly, is it possible to have only one copy of iutlook active in
future, no matter which PC i work on (so all the emails and replies
will be in the same place )?

No. You can't run the exact same Outlook on two PCs. It must be installed
on each PC. Whether you can do that legally or not is covered by your EULA.
TYpically, if you purchase a retail license of Outlook (i.e., not an OEM
license that came with your PC bundle), you can install Outlook on one
desktop and one laptop, provided the purchaser is also the main user of each
PC.

 

[Garry Kennedy]

So how do I megre the email folders then?

No. You can't run the exact same Outlook on two PCs. It must be
installed on each PC. Whether you can do that legally or not is covered
by your EULA. TYpically, if you purchase a retail license of Outlook
(i.e., not an OEM license that came with your PC bundle), you can install
Outlook on one desktop and one laptop, provided the purchaser is also the
main user of each PC.

 

[Brian Tillman]

So how do I megre the email folders then?

Copy the PST from one PC to the hard drive of the other. On that PC, open
both existing PSTs in the same Outlook and copy the contents of one to the
other.

Additional informaiton here: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.asp

 

[Garry Kennedy]

Can't find a pst file .... think i'll just give up on the idea

 

[Brian Tillman]

Can't find a pst file .... think i'll just give up on the idea

The PST is in a hidden folder. Enable viewing of hidden files and folders
and you should be able to find it.

 

[Gordon]

Wrong. That depends on the Outlook. I have Office 2007 Academic and it
says, on the back cover that it (includes Outlook) may legally be put on 3
PCs.

I think you have been confused by the OPs lack of detail. What Brian meant
is that you can't have ONE installation of Outlook on one PC and run that
from another - the OP has to have two instances of outlook installed, one on
each PC.

 

[Gordon]

Well if that is the case even that is wrong.

No it's not - VNC is NOT running one instance of Outlook on another
computer - it's running Outlook on the computer on which it is installed,
remotely. just the same as Remote Desktop. the program is NOT running on the
computer from which you are controlling it...

 

[Brian Tillman]

Well if that is the case even that is wrong. I have used VNC in the
past to run Outlook on one machine from another and since going Vista
use its own remote control to do that now and then.

Clearly you don't understand how VNC or RDC work.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Errr...VNC is allowing me to run one instance of Outlook on another
computer.

No, it didn't. It allowed you to run Outlook on the remote computer where
it was licensed. That's not the same thing as running on the computer to
which the keyboard where you were working was attached.

VNC doesnt actually run it by itself but allows remote
control so you CAN run one instance of outlook on another computer
the same as if you were sitting in front of it.
Wrong.

That is true but it still answers what you said above, that being:

"What Brian meant is that you can't have ONE installation of Outlook
on one PC and run that from another - the OP has to have two
instances of outlook installed, one on each PC."

With VNC you DO (and I copy and paste here) "have ONE installation of
Outlook on one PC and run that from another".

No you don't. You control the remote PC, but Outlook still runs on the
remote PC as though you were sitting at its screen and keyboard. Outlook
does NOT run on the controoling machine. Outlook is still running on only
one machine.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Clearly not. I use them. So therefore, I don't understand them.

This is a true statement, as all of your posts so far prove. When you use
RDC or VNC, you do NOT run the programs on the remote machine on the local
machine. They still run on one and only one machine - the remote one. One
license and once instance of the program. This is NOT what the OP was
talking about.