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by harvardd

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My question is regarding Microsoft Outlook 2000.

When installing Outlook 2000, is it possible to have the data stored at a remote computer that has a shared folder? I am trying to have several Outlook computers store their files, to a remotelocation so that all the outlokk computers use the same locations to store their data. The goal is for several outlook computers acess the same data base.

How do I configure outlook 2000 to store its data to a remote share.

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by jbond007

Its possible but may cause some problems for you if there is a failure to access the pst constantly (say outage caused by network issues).

Otherwise you could say save the file to a network share and get a login script to map to the network shareas you login.

All that remains is to have the drive mapped on your machine, setup your profile and point the pst to the network share.

FOOTNOTE: there could be a possible IF more than one person attempts to open the pst. By nature it is a single instance usage file meaning that the first person to have it open has it LOCKED. Any other attempts by others to open it subsequently will fail.

hope this helps,

jb

by kbarry

a possible alternative would be to use Delegate. This feature becomes available when Outlook is in Workgroup or Corporate Mode. You can assign permission to other members within exchange to access selected folders.
For example, you have five users,and only one POP account. All users would have an Exchange mailbox and one user would be the owner of the POP account. The owner would add Delegates for all folders and everyone would be able to send and receive mail with the POP account, use the same calendar, etc...
Kind of a jury rigged Peer to Peer for Outlook.

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