2 users, 2 computers for 1 outlook

[Seppo]

Hi,
I was asked about the setup that would allow 2 persons from their own
computers to use same outlook at same time. This requires some server that
allows this kind of application sharing, but since there is so many different
server-products (share-point, groovy etc) all claiming they have sharing
abilities, I thought to ask here..

So which server product should be purchased if there is a need that 2 people
could work with same outlook at same time (i.e. having large customer
database, and need for 2 people to go it through, both seeing changes in
realtime)?

So the problem here is to find correct product among many..

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Exchange is the Microsoft solution for a complete mail infrastructure that
also allows sharing of mailboxes. If that would be overkill or not for you
depends on the rest of your IT infrastructure.

 

[VanguardLH]

Hi,
I was asked about the setup that would allow 2 persons from their
own
computers to use same outlook at same time. This requires some
server that
allows this kind of application sharing, but since there is so many
different
server-products (share-point, groovy etc) all claiming they have
sharing
abilities, I thought to ask here..

So which server product should be purchased if there is a need that
2 people
could work with same outlook at same time (i.e. having large
customer
database, and need for 2 people to go it through, both seeing
changes in
realtime)?

So the problem here is to find correct product among many..

Outlook is not a server application. It is a client application.
Imagine what would happen if, for example, you let multiple
connections to the same host (where Outlook is installed) using VNC or
other remote access software where multiple users were trying to
control the client application at the same time. One user clicks on a
different folder while the other user was still trying to read items
under the previously selected folder, one user deletes an e-mail that
another user was trying to read, one user exits Outlook or minimizes
it while another user is still trying to use Outlook, and so on.

The collaboration you want would have to be supported back in the
e-mail service. You mentioned SharePoint which can have e-mail sent
to it (see
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102047921033.aspx)
but then the users accessing the e-mail content are not working with
e-mails anymore. They are working with the collaboration web site
managed by SharePoint. The only thing that I know about Groovy is
that it is another flavor of the Java programming language so I don't
know why you mentioned it here.