Synch Personal Folders with a Network drive?

[Darkonus]

I have a user that has a Desktop at work and a Laptop at home. He uses a VPN
client to connect to the Work's local intranet. Since he has a network drive
to store all his doc's, mail, ect.. Its becoming a problem with Outlook when
he moves his mail around to the personal folders on his Laptop at home, and
when he gets in to work the next day and opens Outlook on the desktop it
keeps saying there is a problem with his personal folders and they need to be
repairs. I think this is because both the laptop and the desktop are using
the network drive for the storage of the personal folders.

I would like to copy the PST files to the local HD's for both the laptop and
desktop and set Outlook to open the local PST files instead of the ones on
the network drive. Does Outlook have any ability to synch the PST files on
the local drive for the laptop or desktop to the same PST files on the
Network drive?

 

[DL]

There are a number of sync tools available via www.slipstick.com Outlook,
natively, doesnt have any sync capabilities.
NB Storing/using a pst via a network is not supported by MS as it can easily
cause corruption

 

[Roady [MVP]]

In addition to DL. What kind of mail account type are you using? If
Exchange, why fiddle with pst-files?

 

[Darkonus]

Ya its Exchange, there mailbox can only be so big, so they have to keep there
old mail in Archive folders.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, but an archive means an archive and thus it is static. If the data in
it is needed or changed that often that you need to sync it, it is not an
archive anymore. The size of the mailbox should be determined by the amount
of active data a user needs in its mailbox in order to get his/her work
done. The passive data goes into an archive or a knowledge base solution in
case you need to do something with the result of the messages.

Also, why allow a decentralized archiving method in a managed environment?
You are bound to lose data this way. Why not implement a server-side
archiving solution?