sharing contact info in outlook - 2 accounts on one xp pro machine

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I have an XP pro machine with two user logins, both run outlook, each
profile has their own email address and config. However, I'm trying to
share contacts so that when one person enters a contact, it's available in
the other persons contact info as well (i imported one to other for now to
buy me some time). there is no exchange server, but seeing this is one
machine, only one user logged on at a time, this should be doable I'd think.

Config is Outlook 2002 running on XP Pro. No Exchange server present.
Thanks!
 
no, never

Russ Valentine said:
Will both users ever need to access the data at the same time?
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rob said:
I have an XP pro machine with two user logins, both run outlook, each
profile has their own email address and config. However, I'm trying to
share contacts so that when one person enters a contact, it's available in
the other persons contact info as well (i imported one to other for now to
buy me some time). there is no exchange server, but seeing this is one
machine, only one user logged on at a time, this should be doable I'd think.

Config is Outlook 2002 running on XP Pro. No Exchange server present.
Thanks!
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Then you're in luck. Just set each Outlook profile to use the same PST file.
If you want to keep messages separate, create rules to move messages into
separate folders.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rob said:
no, never

Russ Valentine said:
Will both users ever need to access the data at the same time?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rob said:
I have an XP pro machine with two user logins, both run outlook, each
profile has their own email address and config. However, I'm trying to
share contacts so that when one person enters a contact, it's
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
available
in
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now
to
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I think the only problem with that is then each user would have access to
the others email. Is all email and contacts stored in the .PST? I wasn't
clear if contacts were .PAB. Obviously if email and contacts are both in
the .PST, then I'm probably out of luck unless I write some sort of script
to occassionally sync the two databases. Thanks for the help, Russ.

Russ Valentine said:
Then you're in luck. Just set each Outlook profile to use the same PST file.
If you want to keep messages separate, create rules to move messages into
separate folders.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rob said:
no, never

Russ Valentine said:
Will both users ever need to access the data at the same time?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I have an XP pro machine with two user logins, both run outlook, each
profile has their own email address and config. However, I'm trying to
share contacts so that when one person enters a contact, it's
Click to expand...
available
in
the other persons contact info as well (i imported one to other for
Click to expand...
now
to
buy me some time). there is no exchange server, but seeing this is one
machine, only one user logged on at a time, this should be doable I'd
think.

Config is Outlook 2002 running on XP Pro. No Exchange server present.
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
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All Outlook data is in the PST file, so if you want email completely
separate, you're out of luck trying to share a single PST.
Other alternatives here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rob said:
I think the only problem with that is then each user would have access to
the others email. Is all email and contacts stored in the .PST? I wasn't
clear if contacts were .PAB. Obviously if email and contacts are both in
the .PST, then I'm probably out of luck unless I write some sort of script
to occassionally sync the two databases. Thanks for the help, Russ.

Russ Valentine said:
Then you're in luck. Just set each Outlook profile to use the same PST file.
If you want to keep messages separate, create rules to move messages into
separate folders.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Rob said:
no, never

Will both users ever need to access the data at the same time?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
I have an XP pro machine with two user logins, both run outlook, each
profile has their own email address and config. However, I'm
Click to expand...
trying
to
share contacts so that when one person enters a contact, it's available
in
the other persons contact info as well (i imported one to other
Click to expand...
for
now
to
buy me some time). there is no exchange server, but seeing this
Click to expand...
is
one
machine, only one user logged on at a time, this should be doable I'd
think.

Config is Outlook 2002 running on XP Pro. No Exchange server present.
Thanks!
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