Sychronizing Outlook between laptop and desktop

[Gary]

Is there a way I can make changes to my Outlook calender, mail, contacts at
home on my laptop and have these auto sychronize over the internet to my
office desktop computer? (and vice-versa)

I know this is basic stuff that any scheduling program like Outlook must do.
And probably every else does it everyday easily.

I just do not know how to set this and do I can find the 'Sychronize my
Outlook between my Laptop and my Desktop Computers' button anywhere within
Outlook.

Is it hidden or switched off somewhere?

Gary

 

[Ronald Nissley]

Is there a way I can make changes to my Outlook calender, mail, contacts at
home on my laptop and have these auto sychronize over the internet to my
office desktop computer? (and vice-versa)
....

Gary

Gary,

How are you using Outlook? In a corporate environment (if so, does your
employer use Exchange)? If you are not in a corporate environment, your best
bet may be to ask your ISP (specifically email service provider) if they
offer IMAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol)
access. Using IMAP can make it much easier to keep multiple Outlook clients
"synchronized". Your primary email, appointment, task, etc. repository is
stored on your mail service provider's server, and Outlook creates a local
cache for offline work. So, if you download an email in one Outlook client,
then download it in a second Outlook client and delete it using that client,
the email will be deleted from the first client's cache the next time you
synchronize.

Caveat: find out if your mail service provider has storage limits.
Obviously, since IMAP won't download your email from your service provider's
server and then remove it from their server, you will need sufficient storage
space for email and attachments, contacts, appointments, tasks, etc.

HTH,

Ronald Nissley