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Syncing Outlook 2002 over Internet

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by amgc36

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A few people in my office has asked me how they can sync Outlook 2002 (including Calendar, Notes, Tasks, Inbox etc) between workstations over the Internet. The office workstations are members of a domain, but remote access is not set up. And setting up a VPN would be too big a task.

I have thought about setting up a FTP server, and have FTP clients to automatically synchorize files at pre-determined times. But it is a big security hazard and I am reluctant to do so.

Are there simple ways to get this working? Your suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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by aclopez5

I'm a little confused. You want to sync Outlook between workstations? Is this an Exchange enviornment, or are you using Personal Folders?

Setting up a Microsoft VPN is actually quite simple. I am not sure how you would use FTP to accomplish this.

Please provide some more details.

by amgc36

Thanks for your reply.

Our office does not have an Exchange server and we are all using personal folders, getting emails from POP server provided by our ISP.

We would like to use Outlook in and out of our office, while having the same email archives, contacts, calendars etc. What I have in mind is to synchorize the Outlook PST files between the different systems. One way to do that is to set up roaming profile in Win2000, but that will require VPN.

The other way is to serve the PSTfiles on a FTP server, and have clients automatically synchorize them.

There were online services such as visto.com which provide Outlook synchorization, and I could use it as a "bridge" to sync Outlook over different systems.

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