Synchronising two copies of Outlook 2003

[Guest]

I don't think it has ever been possible to synchronise
Outlook on two PCs before. Is there any improvement to
this in Office 2003? I'm not using Exchange or anything,
just using a PC and a laptop at different times to access
the same POP3 account.

 

[klu01]

-----Original Message-----
I don't think it has ever been possible to synchronise
Outlook on two PCs before. Is there any improvement to
this in Office 2003? I'm not using Exchange or anything,
just using a PC and a laptop at different times to access
the same POP3 account.
.
If you are using Outlook 2003 on both machines, you can

probably use Briefcase. But Outlook 2003 has been
changed by Microsoft to have a larger personal data file
and is not backwards compatible with any lower versions
of Outlook.

 

[Gregg]

Outlook 2003 is backwards compatible with older version of Outlook.

The PST file is backwards compatible if you choose the 97-2002 PST file
type. Only NEW PST files you create in OL2003 and specify the new type are
not backwards compatible.

 

[Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]]

....a few options here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm

 

[Guest]

If you are using Outlook 2003 on both machines, you can

probably use Briefcase. But Outlook 2003 has been
changed by Microsoft to have a larger personal data file
and is not backwards compatible with any lower versions
of Outlook.
.

Both machines are running Outlook 2003. I've now tried
using both the briefcase and offline files and folders.
Unfortunately both are slow enough to be too much of a
nuisance to be useable as the mailfile in question is
about 100MB.

I'm surprised that this isn't a feature of outlook by now
as such a requirement outside of an Exchange environment
cannot be that rare. The EULA of Office even allows you
to install one copy onto both a desktop and a laptop.

 

[Gregg]

Personally, I've transferred my .pst file between two computers for the past
6 years...

What I do, is try to keep my main pst file small and then, after archiving
to the archive.pst, I zip it up and move it to the other computer. I do
this about once a week. This way I end up transferring a sub 20 MB file
each day and a large zip once a week and at no time do I not have all my
emails on both machines.