How to sync desktop Exchange mailbox with laptop personal store via USB stick?

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Alan

Hello,

So here's the situation. We have a user with Outlook on their desktop
and an Exchange server mailbox. They also have a laptop which for
security reasons can *never* be connected to any network.

Outlook is also installed on the laptop and they want to sync (in both
directions) the desktop server-based mailbox with the laptop personal-
store-based mailbox, particularly the Calendar, using a file-based
mechanism on a USB memory stick.

Anyone recommend a 3rd party solution or a feasible workaround? I can
only find PST-to-PST solutions. Best I've come up with is U3-like
software.

Can the files used by O2K3 cached-mode or OSTs be manipulated somehow?

Thanks. I'm really stuck here.

- Alan.
 
Alan said:
So here's the situation. We have a user with Outlook on their desktop
and an Exchange server mailbox. They also have a laptop which for
security reasons can *never* be connected to any network.

Outlook is also installed on the laptop and they want to sync (in both
directions) the desktop server-based mailbox with the laptop personal-
store-based mailbox, particularly the Calendar, using a file-based
mechanism on a USB memory stick.

Anyone recommend a 3rd party solution or a feasible workaround? I can
only find PST-to-PST solutions. Best I've come up with is U3-like
software.

Can the files used by O2K3 cached-mode or OSTs be manipulated somehow?
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You certainly can purchase OST to PST converters. You can also use Exmerge
on the Outlook mailbox to create a PST. Going the other way (i.e. PST to
Exchange) can be done via import (not recommended) or by opening the PST,
then copying the data in it to the Exchange folders.
 
Thanks. I need something that the user can do themselves, at any
moment. Exmerge doesn't really fall into that category. Plus the guy
needs a bidir sync - not a copy that may introduce duplicates or
overwite existing info on either side.

Any actual specific software recommendations?
 
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