Work offline in Outlook

[Guest]

I'm running XP home edition and have Outlook 2003. I want to work offline.
When I start Outlook, a pop-up window appears stating, "Your MS Exchange
Server is unavailable". I click on "Work Offline". The Outlook window starts
to paint, but then an error message appears, saying "Cannot start MS Office
Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. The set of folders could not be
opened." What set of folders could not be opened? How do I rectify this
anomaly?

 

[Kirrin Jones]

In order to work offline with Outlook when using an Exchange server, you
should create the offline folder BEFORE you are away from the Exchange
server. If you go into your control panel, open the Mail icon, select
the E-mail Accounts button. Select View or change. Select the account
from the list and choose the Change button. Click the More setting
button. Change the When starting option to Manually control, and check
the button to choose the connection type, then select the Advanced tab,
then click the Offline file settings button and tell it where to save
the offline folder.

Click ok until you are back at the control panel.

Next time you load Outlook it will ask you if it should connect or work
offline. You still cannot work offline until you have connected to your
Exchange server at least once. So when you get to the office, you would
choose connect, connect to the Exchange server and then press the F9 (i
believe) key to synchronize between your Exchange server and your newly
created offline folder.

You can then disconnect from the network and try working offline and see
what happens.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your response. However, I retired a couple of moths ago and no
longer have access to the company servers. I am not able to connect to my
Exchange server even once. Would it be worthwhile to uninstall Outlook and
reinstall in from my CD?
Jim