Chula Vista

So 2 days a week I'm coming into my old office and working on a laptop. The rest of the week I work at home on my main office PC. I'm constantly sending and receiving emails either way.

Is there a simple way to transfer my entire Outlook address book and folders between the PC and laptop on a daily basis. I have a cloud drive I can use with both of them FTR.

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Chula Vista

Let me clarify a bit. My inbox, sent box, and deleted items are on a server and I can access them both at any time from either computer.

But my home PC C-drive has my local address book and storage folders. I have folders for each customer and vendor where I store important emails I get throughout the day.

I want to be able to transfer (or backup) the local stuff to and from my laptop for those days I'm going to be using it.

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DwnWthVwls

You can setup a remote connection to your home PC and access/move the files from it onto your laptop.

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Freebase Dali

If you have a .PST file on your home PC, that's not going to transfer over to the server without a manual move all the time. You need to have all your folders on the server that each Outlook client can connect to and sync from, which means you'll need to move those folders over under your server-side section to upload them and create your folder structure there, rather than in a locally stored PST file.

What I generally do is use Cached Exchange Mode and all my stuff gets stored locally in an OST file, but it also syncs with what's on the server as well. I don't keep PSTs at all, because they're stuck to one location locally that doesn't sync up to the server. That way I have my local OST which means I can access my mail while offline, while the server stores a copy of all the same data in the Exchange database and syncs any time I open Outlook and connect to the server.

As far as address books, that should sync automatically but I'm not sure of your setup. Your contacts and all that are part of your mailbox in the mail database and should propagate over to any computer you're on.

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DwnWthVwls

^I was readin about that trying to find an answer for Chula. What are the benefits of that over remote access?

I don't mess with Outlook.

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Chula Vista

Just checked with my boss and he's doing it this way. I just need to get the IT guy to set it up for me. Thanks.

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Freebase Dali

Well, for one, RDP or some other remote access is an extra step and still all relies on the remote computer and manual moving. For my Exchange servers and all my clients that connect to it, it's a lot easier for all of them and myself to simply update their local machines from the server automatically and use an OST for offline storage because any time they connect to their mailbox either with ActiveSync on their phones or Outlook on their roaming laptops, whatever new mail has come in, that mail is downloaded. It's basically like always being at the office, except instead of only seeing your mail when you're connected to the server, you can read all your already downloaded mail when you're not.

The longest part is just the initial download of all the mail and folders if they're on the server already, but after that, any new mail or folder changes automatically update to and from the server any time you're connected. It's basically the same thing as Dropbox, except it's a mail client infrastructure.

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Chula Vista

I use one of these as my server since the 3 remaining employees no longer have access to the hardware mainframe. So I'll upload and link to this from both home and work.



http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-4TB-Pers...d+my+cloud+4tb

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Freebase Dali

Ah, you mean storage. And you're dating yourself with the "mainframe" term, bud.

Either way, if you're connecting to an Exchange server at work, that server will most certainly will be the best place to store your folders and email, which means you should probably not be using POP3 to connect to it. At the very least, IMAP4, but ideally Outlook Anywhere.

If you store locally with a PST, that just stays local to the NAS you linked to. I would not recommend using Cached Exchange Mode and storing your OST over a WAN connection though... Leave the primary storage duty to the Exchange server and have your OST files local to the PCs you're using. Hopefully the admin is backing up the Exchange database anyway, or has a pair of Exchange servers in a DAG at least.

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