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David - 30 Dec 2004 09:12 GMT

Hi,

I have outlook as bundled with office 2000 on our pc's at home. What I'd
like to do is to have the messages and address book one once pc, that is
accessed from both. I did have this working a couple of years back, but we
changed the setup.

How can I tell one of the installations to use the data as stored on the
other pc? I do know that you can only run outlook on one pc at a time using
this facility.

Thanks

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neo [mvp outlook] - 30 Dec 2004 09:24 GMT

Is Outlook 2000 configured in Corporate/Workgroup or Internet Mail Only
mode? (See Help | About Microsoft Outlook. Second or third line should
state the mode Outlook is operating in.)

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David - 30 Dec 2004 12:12 GMT

> Is Outlook 2000 configured in Corporate/Workgroup or Internet Mail Only
> mode? (See Help | About Microsoft Outlook. Second or third line should
> state the mode Outlook is operating in.)

It's in internet mail only mode. can I change this somehow??

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neo [mvp outlook] - 30 Dec 2004 13:23 GMT

Yep, use File | Open | Personal Folders to open the PST file you want to
use. Right click on Personal Folders (not the one with Outlook Today next
to it) and select properties. There is a checkbox at the bottom to make it
the default delivery location for POP. Restart Outlook. You should
probably answer yes to the dialog that asks to reset the Outlook Bar.

Just keep the following in mind besides what you already now about only 1
machine accessing, PST files on mapped drives are not supported by
Microsoft. (The product lets you do it, but MS realizes that oddities can
happen with a network drive and when it does, the PST can be corrupted.)

>> Is Outlook 2000 configured in Corporate/Workgroup or Internet Mail Only
>> mode? (See Help | About Microsoft Outlook. Second or third line should
>> state the mode Outlook is operating in.)
>
> It's in internet mail only mode. can I change this somehow??

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