How to sychronize Outlook on two computers

[Jimmy Hsu]

I have Outlook 2007 on my PC desktop (Win XP) at home. I also have
Outlook 2003 on my Fujitsu notebook (Win XP), which I use when I am
travelling or moving around.
At home, my Desktop and notebook. are wirelessly linked via a 2Wire
Ethernet wireless router.

When I am outside, I key in my appointments, contacts, tasks, etc to the
notebook's Outlook. When I reached home, I like these data entries to be
transferred to my desktop's Outlook as well. Is there a way to configure
things so that I need to make only one entry on either the notebook's
Outlook or the desktop's Outlook, so that the same entry is automatically
send to the other machine's Outlook as well? I am a newbie.

Thank you.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is there
a way to configure things so that I need to make only one entry on
either the notebook's Outlook or the desktop's Outlook, so that the
same entry is automatically send to the other machine's Outlook as
well?

See if something here helps: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.asp

 

[Phil Vale]

Jimmy,

A couple of things to try.

1) You could use Folder Share to send your outlook .PST file to and then
down load. That will mean you have to upload and down load all the time -
might as well just copy from one to other in that case.

2) Put your .PST file on a shared drive on your portable and configure
Outlook on the desktop to use the file on the portable.

I used to work fine for me (if a little slower on the desk top) untill such
times as the desktop broke. Not Microsoft or outlooks fault tough.

Regards,

Phil.

 

[Gordon]

2) Put your .PST file on a shared drive on your portable and configure
Outlook on the desktop to use the file on the portable.

Accessing a pst file on a networked drive is not supported by Microsoft. If
you do use this method then any loss of data (and this method has a habit of
corrupting pst files quickly and often, and if you never suffered from that
then you have been EXTREMELY lucky) is entirely on your own head.

 

[Phil Vale]

So once again our pals at Microsoft allow us to corrupt our data. If it's
not supported why can it be done. Nothing tells me it shouldn't be done.

 

[Bob I]

There is a saying, "Idiot proofing something only generates more
determined idiots."

 

[Gordon]

So once again our pals at Microsoft allow us to corrupt our data. If it's
not supported why can it be done. Nothing tells me it shouldn't be done.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/en-us

 

[Brian Tillman]

So once again our pals at Microsoft allow us to corrupt our data. If
it's not supported why can it be done. Nothing tells me it shouldn't
be done.

It works well enough if you know you have a very stable network and if you
make frequent PST backups. I use it regularly. The drawback is that only
one Outlook can be open and using the PST at any one time.

 

[Prilosec]

look at www.slipstick.com. This is a FAQ and there are several solutions,
although none of them perfect except MS Excange Server, which will do
exactly what you want (but at a pretty high price).
I keep a desktop and laptop in sync (sort of) by making one the "master"
file and the other the "slave". No changes on the slave go to the master,
but all master changes go to the slave. I use synctoy (free MS download) to
do this. You COULD go both ways, but synctoy copies your whole Outlook file
of whichever file was last used or modified. It does not do "field level"
sync, which is what you really want. If you have a Pocket PC, Activesync (or
Mobile Device Center in Vista) does a good job of realtime, on the fly sync
of two units. Nothing I have found exists for a laptop and desktop, though.