Exchange Mail on Two Computers

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Ray

I have a work desktop and a travel laptop. I have configured my laptop to
use Exchange over HTTP when on the road so I can get my mail. However, when
I returned to the office, I found that the email had been downloaded to my
laptop and removed from the server entirely. I know that with POP server
setting, I am able to specify that my mail remain on the server. Is there a
similar setting for Exchange mail? Maybe it is the "Exchange Cached Mode"
setting, but from what I've ready, that would disable offline use of the
exchange account entirely. Ideally, I would like to have a copy of my email
on both machines.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Ray
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Ray said:
I have a work desktop and a travel laptop. I have configured my
laptop to use Exchange over HTTP when on the road so I can get my
mail. However, when I returned to the office, I found that the email
had been downloaded to my laptop and removed from the server
entirely. I know that with POP server setting, I am able to specify
that my mail remain on the server. Is there a similar setting for
Exchange mail? Maybe it is the "Exchange Cached Mode" setting, but
from what I've ready, that would disable offline use of the exchange
account entirely. Ideally, I would like to have a copy of my email
on both machines.

Is this possible?
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Yes, absolutely, and should be working by default. What's in the mail
profile on your laptop? And do you have any rules/custom views set in
Outlook on your desktop?
 
R

Ray

Lanwench

As it turns out, I added the Exchange Email account to an existing profile
which deliveres all the messages to a .PST. This effectively removes them
from the Exchange server. What I have done to correct the problem is create
a new profile with the Exchange Mail account and associated .OST file as the
default delivery locations. For my POP mail accounts in the same profile, I
added my original .PST files to the profile and created Mail Rules than move
incoming POP mail from the .OST Inbox to the .PST inbox. It is a little
backwards, but it is the only way I have found to keep my exchange mail on
the server.

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks,
Ray
 
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