[RESOLVED] Using One Profile in Outlook 2003 for multiple users

Can it be done.

On a machine running XP MCE I have installed Outlook 2003 as part of Office 2003 using the Administrator account.

Started Outlook and imported mail, accounts etc from OE6 and all seemed fine.

Logged off Administrator and logged into one of the the other 4 accounts on the PC (which all have admin rights).

Started up Outlook and there was nothing there. No mail, no accounts, no contacts.

Is it possible to redirect it to the exsiting files that the Admin account is using, ie similarly to how it used to be done in Outlook Express ?

Yep. You'll need to create the Outlook profile separately in each Windows profile, but when you get to things like Personal Folders files you can just point to the existing ones.

The easiest way to do this is in Control Panel | Mail, rather than in Outlook itself. Create the Outlook profile, then you'll need to:

• Use the Data Files button to add the existing .pst file to the profile.
• Use the E-mail Accounts button then View or change existing e-mail accounts to change which .pst file mail is delivered to by default.
• Go back to the Data Files button and remove the unwanted .pst file from the profile (this doesn't delete it off disk).

Thanks I'll give it a try.

That seemed to work.

Not super intuitive but a bit of playing around and it seems to be good.