Re: Use one Contacts list with two Profiles

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From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:31:46 -0500

Perhaps you could start at the beginning and provide all the relevant and
necessary information about your configuration, including your message
store. Don't make us try to read your mind. Perhaps your question is about
Exchange server, not Outlook. 

-- 
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Ernest Maw" <eemiii@t-online.de> wrote in message 
news:ck8s6s$m43$01$1@news.t-online.com...
> We attempted to create a second mail account within Outlook, but we had 
> errors when sending/receiving.
>
> Since these accounts are in very different environment, (one accessible 
> via internet, the other behind a corporate firewall), there was no chance 
> that I could access them both at the same time.
>
> So we created a second profile, (which worked).
>
> Since my Contact information is not stored in a local .pst file, (it's in 
> my "network" folder behind the corporate firewall, I guess this would not 
> be possible.  (Unless you are aware of a different approach here.)
>
> Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] wrote:
>
>> Answer would depend on what you other needs are and whether you want to 
>> keep your Contacts Folder and other Outlook data separate or synchronized 
>> between these profiles. The simplest thing to do is to configure each 
>> profile to use the same Outlook Data File.
>> File > Data File Management...
>>
>> It is not usually necessary to create separate profiles to handle two 
>> accounts.
>

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