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  • #16
    Re: Syncronising Outlook emails between Laptop & P

    The only problem Ive run across with shared pst files is that one one person at a time can access it.
    That doesnt seem to be a consideration for bf though.

    Having a quick look now I also found some of those writings about NEVER sharing psts and there were a lot of responses contradicting the writers.

    Also found that there are a lot of new software programs designed to facilitate sharing of Outlook psts.

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    • #17
      Re: Syncronising Outlook emails between Laptop & P

      Basically Outlook was never designed to be multiuser is the problem. I know from prior playing with psts they are a bit tempremental if not done properly.

      With my two home PCs only one is ever used at one time and the lounge one is more normal (more comfy and closer to the coffee ) In my case providing I can get outlook on the office PC to point to the lounge pst it will work fine.

      Happy so far with my solution any emails bigger than 200k dont get sent between Laptop to PC or visversa when I make a new doc but the general day to day ones get sent to each. If I really want a bigger one as a copy then I can just Bcc manually.

      KISS is Best always

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      • #18
        Re: Syncronising Outlook emails between Laptop & P

        Agree with TG...

        Have been sharing pst files for years, remotely and even through different o/ss. So long as you use an email client like TBird or Eudora, etc that are able to be configured to read from various source files, it works like a Swiss watch. Havent been a fan of either Outlook or any other M$ mail client for a long, long time though...

        Mal.

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        • #19
          Re: Syncronising Outlook emails between Laptop & P

          Hi All
          Just a word of advice on PST Files.
          They are as dodgy as hell in certain environments, our office currently has about a terrabyte of PST files because management rejected our previous proposal to roll out document management to handle them.
          In a small environment a PST is fine if working on the local machine and of an appropriate size < 1gig.
          Issues faced by people where the PST file is bigger (MS recommend a max of 1.2gig), the more PST files you have open in your outlook, the slower outlook will run.

          If the file gets too big then it can easily become corrupt and then you need to try and repair it with the scanpst tool and that takes ages. A number of companies are now cashing in with utilities that suck the emails out of PST files and into a MSSQL database. Great for a corporate environment but not appropriate for small business or home scenarios.

          The real issue comes down to data management and the life cycle of the email/document, if it can be archived or saved to disk out of an email environment then this is another option.

          Mal

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          • #20
            Re: Syncronising Outlook emails between Laptop & P

            Good call Mal,

            I was really only referring to the situation that bean raised.... In any situation with multiple clients, locations, etc exist I would imagine that these sorts of scenarios would require a completely different approach. Going back to my last employer (several years ago with a well known multi-national miner and petro-chem), they used site mail servers which were in turn linked to regional servers that were in turn linked back to the head offices on all the major continents. Each site, region and head office then maintained a system of back-ups on top of all of this operational hardware. This is probably on the opposite end of the spectrum to which bean was referring to though...

            Mal.

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