Sharing Contacts

[Donard Toro]

Hi,

A friend of mine a desktop with Outlook 2000 and a laptop with Outlook
XP. Now, he wants to be able to share the contacts between the two
computers. He has about 8,000 contacts that are in the laptop and a few
hundred in the desktop. Now merging the two contact lists in not a
problem. I was thinking up setting up a pst file for the contacts and
putting the pst file on a external hard drive. At the most there will be
20,000 contacts that will need to shared. Does anybody know a better way
to share contacts.

Thanks,

Don

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

It sounds good to me, subject to network stability.

Other solutions might reside here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

 

[Donard Toro]

Thanks,

I did look at that web site already and were a couple of programs that
might make it easier to share contacts.

Don

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

For the network .pst, it's great that it's there available to multiple
people, but only one can access the .pst at one time. That is probably an
ok solution for your friend, but he must disconnect from the .pst before
reconnecting with the other computer.

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Dear Donard,

it is not possible by default to share PST files, only 3rd party programs
support this.

On the Microsoft Office Marketplace site is a list of third-party messaging
tools:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/CE010719621033.aspx

On this site is an article on various ways to share Outlook data:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011477571033.aspx