Sharing Contacts and Calendars in XP

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Richard Stratton

I have searched this and other news groups to find out if it is possible to
share Outlook Contacts and Calendars using XP Home and XP Office Small
Business. I have found some articles on the subject but do not seem to be
able to get a simple answer.

What I have are two machines networked together (peer to peer) with XP Home
and Office Small Business installed on both machines.

What I want to do is have one set of Contacts and one Calendar that are
viewable and editable from both computers.

1/ If this is not possible in XP-Home, is it possible in XP-Pro (I'll
upgrade if I have to)

2/ If it is not possible using XP-Pro. What do I need to make it happen?

3/ Is a third party calendar / contacts program a better route? If so, any
suggestions?

Thanks for any and all help

Richard
 
Hi Roady,
Thanks for replying to my request. I had in fact gone to that site
previously but found that there were many solutions to various sinarios and
none addressed XP directly. This is one of the sites that got me confused!
It seems as though there is no real way to do what I want to do without a
lot of user intervention and even then the ability for updating a calender
on one computer with the results being instantly reflected on the other
computer doesn't seem possible.
Do you or anyone else no of a third party calendar program that is
multi-user?

Thanks.... Richard
 
I think this generally requires Exchange Server. It seems to me that it
would also be possible to open a different outlook.pst file across the
network. I'm confident that it won't open such a file if it is in use and
opening it will block the other computer from using it until the file is
closed (and possibly the user logged off the network).
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