Outlook 2000 and 2003

[el]

Hi,
Is Outlook 2003 compatable with 2000? I have a user use Outlook 2003 normally and tried to open his mailbox in another computer using Outlook 2000. Outlook opened already but when he tried to add a new contact, Outlook didn't allow him to save the new contact. Is this a compatibility issue?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

There are issues when you open a mailbox with both ol2003 and ol2000 but I'm not aware of it causing this type of problem. Is outlook 2000 fully updated? What did the error message say?

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Hi,
Is Outlook 2003 compatable with 2000? I have a user use Outlook 2003 normally and tried to open his mailbox in another computer using Outlook 2000. Outlook opened already but when he tried to add a new contact, Outlook didn't allow him to save the new contact. Is this a compatibility issue?

 

[Pat Willener]

If it uses a PST file that was created with Outlook 2003 in OL2003
format, it cannot be opened with a previous version of Outlook.

You should create a backwards compatible PST file if you want to share
it with previous Outlook versions. (However, this PST file will be
limited to 2GB in size.)