Sharing Outlook 2003

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Gordon

[email protected] wrote:
|| I have 3 PC's on my home network. Can I use the same pst
|| file on all 3 machines?

You can. BUT - this is NOT supported by Microsoft. So make sure you take
regular, frequent backups of the pst file. Move the pst file to a shared
area and just point all instances of Outlook at it. Note: - you can only
access the file with one instance of Outlook at any one time. if you wish to
access from a different machine to the current one, you MUST close outlook
on the current machine first.

HTH
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Once you move the .pst file to the preferred location, delete all reference
to the outlook.pst by renaming it to outlook.bak or something else. When
you open Outlook on each machine, it will complain. Point it to the new
location and it will start using it as the default location for outlook
items.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.


After furious head-scratching, [email protected] asked
this group:

| OK, Could you tell me how to tell Outlook where to look
| for my shared file?
|| -----Original Message-----
|| [email protected] wrote:
|||| I have 3 PC's on my home network. Can I use the same pst
|||| file on all 3 machines?
||
|| You can. BUT - this is NOT supported by Microsoft. So make sure you
|| take regular, frequent backups of the pst file. Move the pst file to
|| a shared area and just point all instances of Outlook at it. Note: -
|| you can only access the file with one instance of Outlook at any one
|| time. if you wish to access from a different machine to the current
|| one, you MUST close outlook on the current machine first.
||
|| HTH
||
|| --
|| Interim Systems and Management Accounting
|| Gordon Burgess-Parker
|| Director
|| www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
||
||
|| .
 
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