I have recently bought and installed Office 2007, and one of the main things
that I wish to be able to do with it is to have it installed throughout my
Home Network (One Main PC, two external 1Tb Hardrives on the network, and
access through a laptop too). My main wish for it is to be able to have the
main PC with Outlook 2007 open, at all times, to collect any emails that may
come in for me, yet still be able to access those emails, read them, but not
have them directly downloaded to my laptop (and not have them mix in with the
other emails already appearing on the main PC).
Is there a way of setting up Outlook on my Home Network so that I can do
this (have Outlook constantly running on the main PC, yet still be able to
read those emails from the laptop when I need to)?

MS does not support the use of outlook data files (pst) over a network as it
can corrupt the file.
Only a single instance of outlook can access a data file.
There are various methods of syncing data between two installations, it may
also depend on the type of mail account.
Also you cannot backup your data file, whilst outlook is running.

"Wolf3587" wrote in message
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I have recently bought and installed Office 2007, and one of the main
things
that I wish to be able to do with it is to have it installed throughout my
Home Network (One Main PC, two external 1Tb Hardrives on the network, and
access through a laptop too). My main wish for it is to be able to have
the
main PC with Outlook 2007 open, at all times, to collect any emails that
may
come in for me, yet still be able to access those emails, read them, but
not
have them directly downloaded to my laptop (and not have them mix in with
the
other emails already appearing on the main PC).
Is there a way of setting up Outlook on my Home Network so that I can do
this (have Outlook constantly running on the main PC, yet still be able to
read those emails from the laptop when I need to)?

How about just viewing your PC from your laptop with a remote desktop
session? If you like that idea and would like to access your PC over the
internet from anywhere then there are various commercial software package
that do this

TT

"Wolf3587" wrote:

I have recently bought and installed Office 2007, and one of the main things
that I wish to be able to do with it is to have it installed throughout my
Home Network (One Main PC, two external 1Tb Hardrives on the network, and
access through a laptop too). My main wish for it is to be able to have the
main PC with Outlook 2007 open, at all times, to collect any emails that may
come in for me, yet still be able to access those emails, read them, but not
have them directly downloaded to my laptop (and not have them mix in with the
other emails already appearing on the main PC).
Is there a way of setting up Outlook on my Home Network so that I can do
this (have Outlook constantly running on the main PC, yet still be able to
read those emails from the laptop when I need to)?

Wolf3587 wrote:

I have recently bought and installed Office 2007, and one of the main things
that I wish to be able to do with it is to have it installed throughout my
Home Network (One Main PC, two external 1Tb Hardrives on the network, and
access through a laptop too). My main wish for it is to be able to have the
main PC with Outlook 2007 open, at all times, to collect any emails that may
come in for me, yet still be able to access those emails, read them, but not
have them directly downloaded to my laptop (and not have them mix in with the
other emails already appearing on the main PC).
Is there a way of setting up Outlook on my Home Network so that I can do
this (have Outlook constantly running on the main PC, yet still be able to
read those emails from the laptop when I need to)?

See replies to your SAME post that you MULTI-posted in the outlook.general
group. Learn to cross-post:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

A point not made is that N multi-posted copies will consume N times the disk
space for each of the separate copies of the same post. Cross-posted
messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in the newsgroups
back to the same single copy. Multi-posting wastes disk space on the
server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that you consume N times
the space on one server and then do so again on all the newsgroups servers
worldwide. You waste more bandwidth getting N copies of your multi-posted
message distributed to all the newsgroups servers worldwide. Cross-posting
has just one copy of the message on an NNTP server, and only one copy gets
propagated to other NNTP servers.

To those visiting the newsgroups, cross-posting helps them see ALL the
replies from those in the other RELATED newsgroup to which you linked your
post. That way, they don't waste their time duplicating similar replies.

Don't cross-post to more groups than needed if at all. Many consider
cross-posting to more than 4 groups as rude and may filter out your post.
The more groups you add, the less likely that they are related, the less
accurate or focused are the targeted groups, or some of the included groups
may already be encompassed by an included parent group. If they are
subgroups under a topic, choose whether you will be specific or general in
the targeted groups to which you post. Usenet-ignorants that shotgun their
posts across multiple groups trying to capture as large an audience as
possible will offend netizens with the poor aim. Multi-posting instead of
cross-posting when shotgunning across multiple groups evidences you as a
newbie, troll, or spammer.