Swords in outlook

[Kranzel]

Hello all,

I am a single user who works with outlook XP and an exchange 5.5
server. I am the only person who has access to my outlook and all of
it's folders. Some how, I keep getting (swords) or conflicts with my
meetings and journal items.

I understand that in a team enviroment or a mutiple user enviroment
swords occur when a person working offline updates the same info as a
perosn working online. The problem occurs because the online user
makes a change and then the offline user makes a change and when the
synch occurs outlook does not know which set of info to keep.

That being said, how can this occur when I am the only person using my
system. I do work offline and online depending on the situatoin but
how do these conflicts occur.

As much technical detail as possible would be apprechiated.

Thanks,

 

[Roady]

Ehm, I think you gave yourself the answer already;
-You work offline and make changes to an appointment
-Someone else works online and makes changes to the same appointment
-You synchronise-> conflict occurs.

I do not follow your reasoning about you being the only one that uses your
system. Changes are made to the Exchange server and not to your local client
(like you probably know already) so why shouldn't this problem occur when
you are the only one on your system?

 

[Kranzel]

Thansk for your response. I will clarify a little more. I have an
exchange server running at home. I am the only person using it. I am
also the only perosn making changes to both my client and my exhcnage
server.

so my quesiton still is, how am I getting sorwds. I work offline most
of the time and if I am working online I always synch before closing
outlook. This action should remvoe any possibility of swords as far as
I know. Is their a way of making swords in offline mode?

As far as I understood it, the only way to make swords in the above
situation is if I was to work online, make a change, not synch, go
offline, make a change to the same contact/task/journal/ect.. and then
synch.

so I am borught back to the above quesoitn, is there a way of making
swords in this type of setup that I am not aware?

Thaks again for any help.