Sharing Personal folders (.pst) across Windows installations in Outlook2000

[Trond Ruud]

Since I have Win98SE, Win 2000 and Win XP all installed I thought I could
use Outlook2000 as a common mail client across the systems, but Outlook
creates a personal folder file on C:\ in each system where it has been
installed, and refuses to close it in favor of my own common personal folder
on a common FAT32 partition, so it seems I'll have to install Eudora or some
other independent foreign mail software in order to be able to access my
mail from all the 3 windows systems, or does anybody here know how to get
rid of the default Outlook pst. folders on c:\ in all 3 systems and switch
to the common folder? Opening the common .pst on the common partition is
easy enough, but Outlook seems to use the local c:\ pst. by default, when
downloading new mail, which makes the Outlook mail system pretty messy
Trond Ruud

 

[DL]

Using a pst over a network is not supported by MS, whilst it can work it can
also lead to corruption of the pst.
Only one instance of OL can access a pst at anyone time.
To get 'rid' of a pst, with OL closed you simply delete it. When opening OL,
at the msg, you point OL to whichever/wherever you have the pst stored.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm may help in sync'ing pst's

 

[Oliver Vukovics]

Dear Trond,

for Outlook sharing solutions have a look on this sites:
http://www.mapistore.com/Outlook/Groupware/
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

Since I have Win98SE, Win 2000 and Win XP all installed I thought I
could use Outlook2000 as a common mail client across the systems, but
Outlook creates a personal folder file on C:\ in each system where it
has been installed, and refuses to close it in favor of my own common
personal folder on a common FAT32 partition,

Sorry, this just doesn't ring true. Outlook doesn't "refuse" anything it
will do exactly what you tell it to do, if it's capable of it. From what
you describe, you have three separately installed operating systems, one on
each of three partitions, with a fourth partition for holding your data.
Fine. In each O/S, open Outlook, click File>Open>Personal Folders File,
browse to the personal folder file you wish to use, select it, and click OK.
Make it your default delivery location. FInally, right-click on the
partition-specific folder root and click Close. All. done.

 

[Trond Ruud]

In

Sorry, this just doesn't ring true. Outlook doesn't "refuse"
anything it will do exactly what you tell it to do, if it's capable
of it. From what you describe, you have three separately installed
operating systems, one on each of three partitions, with a fourth
partition for holding your data. Fine. In each O/S, open Outlook,
click File>Open>Personal Folders File, browse to the personal folder
file you wish to use, select it, and click OK. Make it your default
delivery location. FInally, right-click on the partition-specific
folder root and click Close. All. done.

Sounds simple, except I'm unable to find a way to "make it my default
delivery location". Where do I find that that option?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sounds simple, except I'm unable to find a way to "make it my default
delivery location". Where do I find that that option?

Are you running Outlook in Internet Mode Only or Corporate/Workgroup mode?
Help>About will tell you.