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by neal1lb

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Scenario.
1 user needs to login to domain at work
and needs to login to @home at home.
The user will have a docking station at
home and no docking station at work.
I believe I should probably use either
two hardware profiles or two user profiles.
Problem.
The user is using Outlook 2000 with no
exchange server. The problem is the workplace will not allow someone off site
to bounce mail back through the mail server.
So the outgoing email server,when at home, needs to be the @home email server, not
the at work server. Is there a way I can
set up two user profiles with different Outlook 2000 settings, but still deliver mail
to the same profile. And also set it up
to use one contact list and one schedule.
I need to have 2 outlooks with different
server settings, with both pointing to the
same place for storage and contact and
scheduling information.
Thanks a lot

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by rachel_s

This is difficult, but here goes:
1. You can use separate hardware profiles, but if you are using Windows 9x then I believe it will automatically use whatever it needs for the connection and you won't need to worry about the user picking a choice.
2. You can have separate mail profiles, either use the Mail icon in control panel to configure (show profiles, add from here). You can define different properties here, if you are using pop3 (Internet mail) the outgoing server will show up. Add the same personal folders that downloads the mail and the mail shows up there too (#3).
3. You will have to use personal folders and have the person download all e-mail while in the office. I am assuming that since the company does not allow relaying, the person can't get their e-mail from home either??? Which is NOT the same thing.
4. The contacts and calendaring are generally held on the server, but if you have the personal folders (above) you can add in calendar and contacts to the personal folders - under creating a new folder it will ask why type of 'mail' it will hold.

Hope this helps!

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