Can I share calendars and contacts without Exchange Server?

Factual Questions
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So I want to share calendars and contact information in Outlook 2003 but I don’t want to run Exchange server. They are all on one machine so I don’t need to share anything across a lan.

Any ideas?

2

So who are you going to share them with?

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another user on this computer

4

Sure. Create a .pst to which you both have access. I’m assuming that by “another user on this computer” you mean that only one of you would be accessing the file at a time.

Once created, you’ll have to add both a calendar and contact folders to the .pst, but that’ll allow you to share.

Here are some pretty instructions on how to add the .pst. Once it’s created, you can right-click on the new Personal Folder (in Outlook) and choose “New Folder” to create a Calendar and, then, a Contacts subfolder. You’ll then have to log in with each separate user profile and add that new .pst so that they, too, will have access.

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thanks Skip. I played around with it some more and I got it. I did it the same way you described so you were dead on!