perhaps strangest post ever...

[Evan]

hi!

i'm trying to help my girlfriend's mom with her winme, dell ispiron laptop
which is her work pc. she works from home 99% of the time. she wants to sync
her palm m105 (?) with outlook 2k. here's the fun part...

she does NOT have a local copy of outlook on her laptop. she connects via
citrix to work, where outlook is in her citrix profile. my first thought was
to set
her up with an offline folder residing on her local pc, get a copy of
outlook installed locally, and her sync her palm while offline. the problem
with that is that the citrix app version of outlook is missing the 'enable
offline use' button. (i've seen that before. it's a reinstall.)

i know there's got to be a way to make this work. i really want my
girlfriend's mom to like me. ;-)

so, anyone got any ideas?

tia,

evan

p.s. i'll also be posting in winme networking and hardware groups.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Neither offline folders nor PDA sync is not compatible with terminal server use. Think about it -- Outlook is actually running on the server, so that's where the offline folders would have to be (which is pretty much pointless -- therefore they're disabled). Synchronization would have to take place at the server, too, since there is no actual Outlook data on her laptop. But her PDA isn't attached to the server.

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