PSt files and calandars

[jim.butts]

I am stuck with a VIP user that demands to download his mail from the
exchange 2003 server into his own PST file. He's now discovered that
his calandar is not in sync with his server calandar. He claims that
in a previous company this worked fine. I do not reccomend or want to
support PST files for use with exchange but here I am. My questions
are:

1. Would this in fact have worked in the past? Should a PST delivery
location automatically synconize deletes and adds with the server
calandar?

2. If it's not the default (and I doubt it is) is there anyway to make
it work?

3. Pretending for a momment that the VIP is not a complete knucklehead
what would explain his thinking that it did sync? (maybe there is a
way to make an .OST look like a PST?)


thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am stuck with a VIP user that demands to download his mail from the
exchange 2003 server into his own PST file. He's now discovered that
his calandar is not in sync with his server calandar. He claims that
in a previous company this worked fine. I do not reccomend or want to
support PST files for use with exchange but here I am. My questions
are:

1. Would this in fact have worked in the past?

No. The calendars would not communicate in any way. What he may have used
before is offline folders. These behave exactly as though you are connected
to the Exchange server even when offline. WHen you connect, the local
folders sync with the Exchange folders. With Outlook 2003, while offline
folders are still available, Cached Exchange Mode more or less supplants
them and works well for making the connection transparent.

Should a PST delivery
location automatically synconize deletes and adds with the server
calandar?

I don't think so. The Exchange server will never see the contents of the
calendar when the delivery location is a PST.

3. Pretending for a momment that the VIP is not a complete knucklehead
what would explain his thinking that it did sync? (maybe there is a
way to make an .OST look like a PST?)

I think I covered this.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Hi Jim,

maybe he used in the past a synchronization tool, thats synchronized his
Exchange Mailbox with his PST file:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm