Hey there,

a customer of us has some employees that work at multiple locations.
These locations all have their own SBS server, making trusts between
them impossible.

Because of this they multiboot, several employees can boot their laptop
in 2 installs, one for location X, the other for location Y. On both
locations they need outlook configured to access the location X exchange
server. This isn't such a problem, but the offline store replication is,
as some mailboxes are insanely large.

Is there a possibility (or a better solution) in which we can have 2
user profiles, but only one outlook OST file, so all mails don't get
downloaded twice to the offline store. AFAIK OST sharing isn't possible,
I can't even use them for recovery without 3rd party tools if the
outlook profile gets lost or something.

All ideas are welcome.

TIA

Freaky wrote:

Is there a possibility (or a better solution) in which we can have 2
user profiles, but only one outlook OST file, so all mails don't get
downloaded twice to the offline store.

No. Each OST is mailbox-specific
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Brian Tillman wrote:
Freaky wrote:

Is there a possibility (or a better solution) in which we can have 2
user profiles, but only one outlook OST file, so all mails don't get
downloaded twice to the offline store.

No. Each OST is mailbox-specific

Was afraid of that. Just to be clear, it's the same mailbox

User A will get a user account on both location X and Y, but will be
connecting to the same mailbox/exchange server on location X even though
on location Y he's in a different user profile.

Also never got the OST's to be reused if we had to recreate the outlook
profile, so I assume it's profile specific even (looks to me like each
profile generates a unique ID or something and stores that in the OST).

Anyways, thanks for the re'.

Kind regards

Freaky wrote:

Was afraid of that. Just to be clear, it's the same mailbox

User A will get a user account on both location X and Y, but will be
connecting to the same mailbox/exchange server on location X even
though on location Y he's in a different user profile.

It's also mail profile-specific. Since you're using more than one instance
of Windows (or you wouldn't be multibooting), each instance has its own
Windows user profile and, hence, mail profile.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]