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My daughter has Outlook 2003 set up on one PC. She has it on a laptop as well.
However, she wants to have it so she has all emails, contacts, calendar and
tasks on both PCs.
As it's a home network and neither techincal experience nor the money are
available to run a corporate MS network. we need to work out the best way to do
this.
I've made a start long these lines on my own home network. I use Google Calendar
Outlook Sync to sync both ways between PC1 and Google Calendar. PC 2 uses it
too. But it's a one way sync from Google to PC.
As for emails, we could configure Outlook to connect to Gmail as an IMAP client
but that means a lot of mucking about with her existing email accounts. Plus,
what gets sent on one PC won't be seen on the other PC if it's sent direct via
the ISP's SMTP servers.
She could use Gmail exclusively, but she wants to retain her existing email
address and account, otherwise there are problems with people not receiving
"change of address" updates.
So, what I've suggested is that she tells both PCs with Outlook on it to "keep
mail on server" and configured it to delete it all after say, 5 days.
It's easy enough to move contacts over, too.
However, the big question is about Tasks. How do we sync taskes between the two
computers?
Thanks.
Ps. I've found that with IMAP it seems to make Outlook act as little more than a
web based email client in that if there is no internet connection, then none of
the emails are downloaded to your PC, if say you want to look in Deleted or Sent
for an old email, or one that's saved in a dedicated folder (say, Work Related
Messages). They all seem to load up each time that Outlook is started and is
connected to the 'net.
And if there are a lot of emails, some with large attachments this can take a
while.
However, she wants to have it so she has all emails, contacts, calendar and
tasks on both PCs.
As it's a home network and neither techincal experience nor the money are
available to run a corporate MS network. we need to work out the best way to do
this.
I've made a start long these lines on my own home network. I use Google Calendar
Outlook Sync to sync both ways between PC1 and Google Calendar. PC 2 uses it
too. But it's a one way sync from Google to PC.
As for emails, we could configure Outlook to connect to Gmail as an IMAP client
but that means a lot of mucking about with her existing email accounts. Plus,
what gets sent on one PC won't be seen on the other PC if it's sent direct via
the ISP's SMTP servers.
She could use Gmail exclusively, but she wants to retain her existing email
address and account, otherwise there are problems with people not receiving
"change of address" updates.
So, what I've suggested is that she tells both PCs with Outlook on it to "keep
mail on server" and configured it to delete it all after say, 5 days.
It's easy enough to move contacts over, too.
However, the big question is about Tasks. How do we sync taskes between the two
computers?
Thanks.
Ps. I've found that with IMAP it seems to make Outlook act as little more than a
web based email client in that if there is no internet connection, then none of
the emails are downloaded to your PC, if say you want to look in Deleted or Sent
for an old email, or one that's saved in a dedicated folder (say, Work Related
Messages). They all seem to load up each time that Outlook is started and is
connected to the 'net.
And if there are a lot of emails, some with large attachments this can take a
while.