Sharing a .pst file

[Kodak]

Does anyone know if an Outlook 2003 .pst file can be used in Outlook 2000?
I'm trying to share my 2003 .pst file on my new computer with my older
computer using Outlook 2000. I want to have one file available to both
computers through my home network.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

1. Sharing .pst files is NEVER a good solution to what your problem may be.
2. Outlook 2003 unicode format .pst is not backwards compatible.

Having said that, take a look here, it may help:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm



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After furious head scratching, Kodak asked:

| Does anyone know if an Outlook 2003 .pst file can be used in Outlook
| 2000? I'm trying to share my 2003 .pst file on my new computer with
| my older computer using Outlook 2000. I want to have one file
| available to both computers through my home network.
|
| Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
|
| Thanks,

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Dear Kodak,

Does anyone know if an Outlook 2003 .pst file can be used in Outlook 2000?

It can not be used and if you will use an "old" PST file (97-2002) some
"fields" can not be shared in the different Outlook versions.

Some fields will be deleted if you would share this with old PST files in
Outlook 2003 and older versions.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Hi Milly,

1. Sharing .pst files is NEVER a good solution to what your problem may
be.

Sorry but in view of "never" I must unfortunately contradict you.

To share an Outlook PST on the same computer is not a problem.
Only on network drives Microsoft doens´t support this since a year. 3 years
ago it was a Microsoft recommended solution. To share PST files can be a
good and excellent solution if you have a software that can realy share PST
files or you could use also VMWare or a Terminal Server machine. Then you
always work with a "local" machine and not with a network drive but you can
work with a "shared" PST.

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Oliver Vukovics
Share Outlook without Exchange: Public ShareFolder
Share your contacts, calendars or e-mails
http://www.publicshareware.com


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

1. Sharing .pst files is NEVER a good solution to what your problem may
be.
2. Outlook 2003 unicode format .pst is not backwards compatible.

Having said that, take a look here, it may help:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm



--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.


After furious head scratching, Kodak asked:

| Does anyone know if an Outlook 2003 .pst file can be used in Outlook
| 2000? I'm trying to share my 2003 .pst file on my new computer with
| my older computer using Outlook 2000. I want to have one file
| available to both computers through my home network.
|
| Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
|
| Thanks,

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry but in view of "never" I must unfortunately contradict you.

To share an Outlook PST on the same computer is not a problem.

You can't truly share a PST in any circumstances. Outlook prevents
concurrent use of a PST. Certainly you can non-concurrently use the same
PST in separate Outlook instances or mail profiles, but that's not
"sharing", in the strict sense of the word.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

There are applications that provide their own MAPI store providers that do
allow sharing PST files, or a reasonable simulation of concurrent sharing.

PublicShareFolder (Oliver's application) and OLFolders from Thomas Quester
do that. WorkGroupShare does it differently, making the shared store appear
as subfolders of a Journal folder (don't ask me why) as a top level folder
in the default PST or mailbox.

I just spent a few days hacking those store providers to make sure one of my
reminders addins works with them. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Brian Tillman]

There are applications that provide their own MAPI store providers
that do allow sharing PST files, or a reasonable simulation of
concurrent sharing.

Well, sure. ActiveSync does it too, sort of, but the discussion is about
sharing between two Outlook instances and I stand by what I say in that
situation.

 

[Kodak]

Thanks, the link was helpful. I have had success however of using a single
..pst file on both my laptop and my desktop; not at the same time.