Different users accessing same contacts

[David DeBoer]

I'm sure there is an easy way to do this but I don't know what it is.

A user on an Windows XP Pro laptop logs on to a domain with a user ID and
has his contacts in Outlook 2002. When he is on the road he logs on to his
laptop. Same user ID but he can't see the contacts he has when he's logged
on to the domain. How do you set Outlook up so that he can see his contacts
regardless of what he is logged on to? No Exchange involved for what that's
worth.

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Move the user's .pst file out of their Windows profile-related folders to a
folder accessible from any profile.

 

[David DeBoer]

Is there a particular way that this is supposed to be done? Thanks...

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Shut down Outlook and drag and drop, as you would any file. When you restart
Outlook, it will ask where the file went.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[David DeBoer]

Thanks for your thoughts.

This is a laptop that has had several users so there are numerous pst files.
I'm not sure which is which is which. I would like to clean these up. If I
delete them all will Outlook recreate the one for this particular user?
Then I will be sure of which one I need to move. As of now there is nothing
useful in these files. Thanks again.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Don't delete!!!!! Not unless you want to lose all the data. You can open
each .pst file with the File | Open | Outlook Data File command if you want
to look at each one. Information about the files active in the current
user's profile is available in the File | Data FIle Management dialog.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[David DeBoer]

I'm thinking I want to start from scratch. Delete the pst files and
uninstall Outlook. Then reinstall. No?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Again, do you really want to get rid of all the accumulated data? There is
also no reason to reinstall.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[David DeBoer]

What data there is is obsolete by now and not worth anything.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Then feel free to delete all .pst files and create a new profile for each
user using the same .pst file, located in a folder all users can access.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers