Can Outlook access external drives

[Flick Olmsford]

Can Outlook 2003 Posting files - mail, contacts, etc - be stored on external
drives for regular use - not just backup.

I have a user with a rather large posting file (tons of email) and she wants
to access her data on her standalone laptop - no VPN, etc

Thanks in advance.

Flick

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

They can be and they sort of work, but doing so is not supported and risky:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/en-us
Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link

Hal
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[Brian Tillman]

Can Outlook 2003 Posting files - mail, contacts, etc - be stored on
external drives for regular use - not just backup.

Is this a physically connected external drive, like a USB drive? If so,
sure. Use it just like any other hard drive. You can put your files on any
physically-connected drive (whether internal or external).