Outlook 2007 and visita - sharing

[Guest]

Hi
I am about to take delivery of a new PC with Vista and Outlook 2007. What I
would like to do is be able to have a user account for both my wife and
myself but be able to share the same email address etc ie same outlook.pst.
I would also like to access the pst with a laptop via the home wireless
network. What is the best way of setting both of these up? Also and special
tips for going from an old pc with outlook 2000 to the new pc with outlook
2007?
Thanks
PD

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am about to take delivery of a new PC with Vista and Outlook 2007.
What I would like to do is be able to have a user account for both my
wife and myself but be able to share the same email address etc ie
same outlook.pst. I would also like to access the pst with a laptop
via the home wireless network. What is the best way of setting both
of these up? Also and special tips for going from an old pc with
outlook 2000 to the new pc with outlook 2007?

Part of the answer can be found here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm . FOr accessing between
machines, you can put your PST in a network share and open it from there.
Keep in mind, though , that only one Outlook at a time can access it, you'll
need to keep it an ANSI (Outlook 2000) PST if you wish to use both OL 2000
and OL 2007 to access it (which makes it size-limited), plus you run the
risk of damaging it if any network hiccoughs happen while it is open. Be
sure to make frequent backups of it. Finally, if you decide to share it, if
you keave copies of your messages on the server, each Outlook will
re-download any message it considers new since the last time it downloaded,
because one Outloko cannot access the information about which messages the
other Outlooks downloaded. Frankly, many ISPs will let you each have your
own mail address with a separate mailbox and you'd be better off using that
ability. Do your *really* want your wife reading all the mail you get?
<wink, wink>