How to sync desktop Exchange mailbox with laptop personal store via USB stick?

[Alan]

Hello,

So here's the situation. We have a user with Outlook on their desktop
and an Exchange server mailbox. They also have a laptop which for
security reasons can *never* be connected to any network.

Outlook is also installed on the laptop and they want to sync (in both
directions) the desktop server-based mailbox with the laptop personal-
store-based mailbox, particularly the Calendar, using a file-based
mechanism on a USB memory stick.

Anyone recommend a 3rd party solution or a feasible workaround? I can
only find PST-to-PST solutions. Best I've come up with is U3-like
software.

Can the files used by O2K3 cached-mode or OSTs be manipulated somehow?

Thanks. I'm really stuck here.

- Alan.

 

[Brian Tillman]

So here's the situation. We have a user with Outlook on their desktop
and an Exchange server mailbox. They also have a laptop which for
security reasons can *never* be connected to any network.

Outlook is also installed on the laptop and they want to sync (in both
directions) the desktop server-based mailbox with the laptop personal-
store-based mailbox, particularly the Calendar, using a file-based
mechanism on a USB memory stick.

Anyone recommend a 3rd party solution or a feasible workaround? I can
only find PST-to-PST solutions. Best I've come up with is U3-like
software.

Can the files used by O2K3 cached-mode or OSTs be manipulated somehow?

You certainly can purchase OST to PST converters. You can also use Exmerge
on the Outlook mailbox to create a PST. Going the other way (i.e. PST to
Exchange) can be done via import (not recommended) or by opening the PST,
then copying the data in it to the Exchange folders.

 

[Alan]

Thanks. I need something that the user can do themselves, at any
moment. Exmerge doesn't really fall into that category. Plus the guy
needs a bidir sync - not a copy that may introduce duplicates or
overwite existing info on either side.

Any actual specific software recommendations?