Can two networked home computers share an Outlook 2000 Calendar?

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Walter A

I have two separate computers on a wireless network. Both have Office 2000
installed. I want to be able to share one calendar but cannot figure out how
or if it can be done.

One the main computer I use OE for mail and Outlook for the Calendar
functions. On the 2nd computer I use Outlook for all tasks.

Thanks...
 
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After furious head scratching, Oliver Vukovics [Public Shareware] asked:

| Hi Walter,
|
| for Outlook 2000 you could try "Netfolders" (Freeware).
|
| Have a look on this site :
| http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/netfolders.htm
|
| Maybe it helps.
|
|
| || I have two separate computers on a wireless network. Both have
|| Office 2000 installed. I want to be able to share one calendar but
|| cannot figure out how
|| or if it can be done.
||
|| One the main computer I use OE for mail and Outlook for the Calendar
|| functions. On the 2nd computer I use Outlook for all tasks.
||
|| Thanks...
 
Oliver,

I was hoping for a way to do this a little simpler. Can two computers access
the same pst file in a shared folder without causing problems?

Walter
 
Walter A said:
I was hoping for a way to do this a little simpler. Can two computers
access the same pst file in a shared folder without causing problems?
Click to expand...

Yes, provided only one Outlook is running at any one time. On the "master"
PC, put the PST in a locally-hosted network share. Start Outlook and when
it complains that it can't find the folders, browse to the new location of
the PST. On the remote PC, add the PST with FIle>Open>Personal Folders
File, browse to the share, select the PST and click OK.

Be sure to make frequent PST backups as this isn't supported and can lead to
data loss.
 
Walter A said:
Oliver,

I was hoping for a way to do this a little simpler. Can two computers
access
the same pst file in a shared folder without causing problems?
Click to expand...

Yes and no. Yes, but only one at a time, and no, because using a pst file
across a network is one of the fastest and most frequent ways to a corrupt
pst file....
 
Thank you Brian & Gordon. You confirmed my suspicions about possible
problems doing it this way.

Walter A.
 
In short, yes, but both clients need to be Microsoft Outlook. Keep in mind, Outlook Express doesn't even have calendar functions. So, if you were to move to using Outlook on both computers there's a great Outlook addin, and it's very affordable as well, called 3StepShare http://www.3stepshare.com. With this addin you can share Microsoft Outlook calendar, contact, task, and email between two or more Microsoft Outlook users. It does it all via email which means you don't have to do any network configuration...it's very easy to use.

There you have it...enjoy.
 
In short, yes, but both clients need to be Microsoft Outlook. Keep in
mind, Outlook Express doesn't even have calendar functions. So, if you
were to move to using Outlook on both computers there's a great Outlook
addin, and it's very affordable as well, called 3StepShare
http://www.3stepshare.com. With this addin you can share Microsoft Outlook
calendar, contact, task, and email between two or more Microsoft Outlook
users. It does it all via email which means you don't have to do any
network configuration...it's very easy to use.

There you have it...enjoy.
Click to expand...

Posted and mailed

To whom are you talking and about what?
The "forum" that you are posting in leaches off the Microsoft News servers
in order to make it look far busier than it really is. Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - we have NO IDEA what you are
talking about and to whom you are talking.

If you MUST continue to post in this "forum" then please at least quote the
post you are replying to, and do NOT change the subject line.

You would be far better off however, using a news reader and subscribing to
these news groups direct.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx


Thank you
 
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