Outlook 2007 on 2 Computers

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broken1

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At home I've got a PC, and I've got my laptop. I prefer using the PC at home, but often have to turn my laptop on to get my emails and etc.

Running Outlook 2007 on both computers, I want to be able to synchronize my emails, task, calender and contacts somehow. Is there a way to do it?

I use Groove 2007 to synchronize my documents and that - which is great, but it won't synchronize the outlook.pst file in a way that works.

I can't leave my emails on the server either. Surely, I'm not the only one with only one computer?
 
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hhhm, i have had a similar problem at a clients. There are some apps out there that can in theory do this, though i have not personally tried out any of them.

The most elegant and reliable solution, which works wonders is using Exchange server. This works really well, but obviously the costs are quite prohibitive.
 
Ye, I thought of that too! The outlook.pst file doesn't like being shared or syncronized.

Guess I'll have to just suffer some more...resend everything to myself twice. Maybe that's the solution. Imagine the wasted bandwidth though. *sigh*
 
broken1 said:
Ye, I thought of that too! The outlook.pst file doesn't like being shared or syncronized.

Guess I'll have to just suffer some more...resend everything to myself twice. Maybe that's the solution. Imagine the wasted bandwidth though. *sigh*
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Got my laptop set up for work e-mail only and all my personal mail goes on my desktop PC - different mail addresses tho'
Never tried sync'ing the pst file, but good to know that it doesn't work (for future reference...) ;)
 
I'm running my pst file of a usb flash drive. Both PC and laptop is pointing to the usb drive. Been running like this for couple of weeks now. So far so good. Also make regular backups of flash drive in case it gets lost.

Advantage: No one can read your mail unless they have your flash drive and the password to open that section (if your flash drive support that function)
 
IcemanSA said:
I'm running my pst file of a usb flash drive. Both PC and laptop is pointing to the usb drive. Been running like this for couple of weeks now. So far so good. Also make regular backups of flash drive in case it gets lost.

Advantage: No one can read your mail unless they have your flash drive and the password to open that section (if your flash drive support that function)
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Good option, Ice! :cool:
 
In one of the previous PCFormat's they describe how you can make this work. Don't ask me to remember what they said to do, however :(
 
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