Outlook 2010 - I want to have a complete set of emails, contacts, etc. at home

brothertruffle880
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How can I take all of my office contacts, emails, to do lists, etc. and put them on my home pc.  (I don't have remote access to my office email account from home. So, I just want to have a static set of files that I regularly copy from my office PC to my home pc.
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Thomas GrassiSystems Administrator

Commented:
Manually by exporting all your data mail, todo, calendar etc to a pst file
Then import those files on you home pc

Microsoft does not provide a method of syncing

What version of exchange do you have

Can you access your mail via the web using OWA
IMyNameI

Commented:
if your looking to simply transfer files, try setting up a VPN
if you want to have your contacts, try setting up both of the computers' outlooks to the same e-mail account
Tony Giangreco

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Copy your entire mailbox and folders to a PST file. Take it home on a flash drive and import it.
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brothertruffle880

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1.  How do I copy my entire mailbox, folders, calendars and other stuff to a PST file?
2.  Our company does not have Outloook Web access.
3. VPN'ing has been disabled.
Systems Administrator
Commented:
In outlook
click on file
click on open
click on import
select export to a file
select outlook data file (.pst)
then folow the rest of the dialogs

then reverse the process at home use import from file option
brothertruffle880

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Commented:
I'm not able to select everything (personal folders and my email account.  Does this mean I have to create multiple backup files (i.e. multiple pst files)?


 err
Thomas GrassiSystems Administrator

Commented:
Yes I always make a seperator .pst file for each item

IE Inbox
Calendar
Notes
Archives
etc

You can to the same procedure I gave you just make sure you change the name of the file being saved
Just use the file names like ibox.pst notes.pst etc.
Tony Giangreco

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