MS Outlook Over Lan

Zahc

Hi all,
Can anyone please recommend either a program (preferably free) or a method to sync MS Outlook over LAN? I have a Vista laptop and 2 XP desktops networked over wifi (w)LAN.

Thanks

Zahc

isofa

Do you mean have the same copy of the Outlook PST file on all 3 machines?
If we assume one is your "main" machine and the other two you just want copies on...

If so, you could manually "sync" the PST file, using something like Microsoft's free SyncToy. But if you download mail/add anything on one PC, you'll have to remember which one to copy back to.

However for live syncs, that's more tricky, obviously Outlook isn't designed to run over a network without an expensive Exchange server, so you wouldn't be able to achieve live syncs without some third party software.

The only one I know about is the OSA-Sync tool from Vaita.

That might be just what you need! I've never used it personally though...

Zahc

Thanks, sounds like just the job. I'll download the lite version and see how I get on.
I'll keep you posted.

Zahc

*Update*

For those that may be interested, I'm trying Osasync Pro (30 day trial) and I'm very impressed. Easy to set up and appears to do what it says on the tin with a minimum of fuss. Much to my surprise it didn't even crash my Vista (Home Basic) laptop running Outlook 2007 syncing with XP (sp2) desktop running Outlook 2002 (sp3).
Thanks again for the tip.