sharing contacts

[John]

Is there anyway to share contacts on a system without the
complexity and headaches of using a server? My wife and
I (and kids) share a net work in the house on MS XP and
all use outlook. But although many contacts are common
to each other we have to maintain individual contact
files in Outlook. In short order they are out of synch.
It seems there should be an easy solution to this.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There isn't, since only one user can access the same PST file at the same
time. Read more about other options here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

 

[John Dickerson]

Thanks, but don't you wish that MS would just put the
contacts file in an Access or SQL data base. What are
they trying to accomplish by keeping it in a proprietary
format.

-----Original Message-----
There isn't, since only one user can access the same PST file at the same
time. Read more about other options here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is there anyway to share contacts on a system without the
complexity and headaches of using a server? My wife and
I (and kids) share a net work in the house on MS XP and
all use outlook. But although many contacts are common
to each other we have to maintain individual contact
files in Outlook. In short order they are out of synch.
It seems there should be an easy solution to this.

.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Agreed.
Small office and home network users have been abandoned by Outlook
development for years.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Thanks, but don't you wish that MS would just put the
contacts file in an Access or SQL data base. What are
they trying to accomplish by keeping it in a proprietary
format.

-----Original Message-----
There isn't, since only one user can access the same PST file at the same
time. Read more about other options here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Is there anyway to share contacts on a system without the
complexity and headaches of using a server? My wife and
I (and kids) share a net work in the house on MS XP and
all use outlook. But although many contacts are common
to each other we have to maintain individual contact
files in Outlook. In short order they are out of synch.
It seems there should be an easy solution to this.

.