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Robert Hargreaves

Hi I would like to have all 3 of my OS's use the same pab, pst, account
settings etc.

I have two windows partitions and a linux partition. I will be using
outlook on all of them (Xover Office with Slackware Linux). I understand I
need to change the paths to all of the files to my shared (seperate hard
disk) hdb in linux and drive D on my windows partitions.

Account settings, signatures, pst files, pab files are what I would like can
you think of any other things I should change? And how can I do it??

Rob
 
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Brian Tillman

Robert Hargreaves said:
I have two windows partitions and a linux partition. I will be using
outlook on all of them (Xover Office with Slackware Linux). I
understand I need to change the paths to all of the files to my
shared (seperate hard disk) hdb in linux and drive D on my windows
partitions.
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Pedantics first: unless you have purchased two licenses for Windows and
three licenses for Outlook, you are not legally allowed to install two
copies of the former and three copies of the latter on the same machine.
The EULA clearly spells this out.

That said, install Outlook in one partition, creating the PST on a shared
partition. Create the mail profile on that instance, defining your account.
Export from the registry the profile that you created. Import it (after
backing up the registry) into the registry of the second instance of
Windows. That should take care of the account and PSTs. Outlook doesn't
use PABs any more. Consider reading
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm . Signatures are kept in
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures . I'm not sure how
you'd share them.

If this doesn't work, of course it was only my opinion of how to accomplish
what you seek.
 
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