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Author: wallaby
Date: Aug 4, 2008 20:26

I have 2 User Accounts (UAs) on my new Vista system that I'll call Work and
Play,

Work will access the wallaby@work.com email account and Play will access the
wallaby@play.com email account - that's easy

Work and Play will each have there own Contact List.

Is there's a way of having a "shared" list in addition to their "private"
lists?

Work and Play must share the same calendar - there's only one wallaby, and
even it can't be in two places at the same time. But I might like to have
separate To Do lists.

As its is now they have there respective mail accounts, but I dont know how
to get them on the same calender etc. I did some searching in Help but
being new to Outllok I'm not familiar with its vocab so searching yields no
meaning ful results.

ASUS pK5PL, E8200, $GRAM, 250+350 HDD, 16Mbps ADSL2+

Vista Business Edition-SP1, Office 2007 Business Edition, AsutoUpdate On.

TIA

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Re: Multiple Vista UA's with One Outlook Calender         


Author: Brian Tillman
Date: Aug 5, 2008 07:10

wallaby home.com> wrote:
> Is there's a way of having a "shared" list in addition to their
> "private" lists?

Yes. You can create a PST that each Windows user have defined in its mail
profile and have a contacts folder there.
> Work and Play must share the same calendar - there's only one
> wallaby, and even it can't be in two places at the same time. But I
> might like to have separate To Do lists.

All of Outlook's default folders for any single mail profile are all in the
same file. Contacts, Calendar, Inbox, Outbox, Tasks, etc. are all part of
the same database in the same file. You can't have the same default
calendar without having all the default folders being the same in both
profiles. There are methods of sharing the data (see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm and
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.asp).

Perhaps if you give a comprehensive description of what you'd like to do,
someone can suggest a good approach.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
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Re: Multiple Vista UA's with One Outlook Calender         


Author: wallaby
Date: Aug 5, 2008 20:20

Tks Brian - I will read the links, taske action and get back to you here.

BTW Windows Mail introduced all those extra line feeds after I did the Send,
not sure I like it as a news reader.
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wallaby

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Re: Multiple Vista UA's with One Outlook Calender         


Author: wallaby
Date: Aug 6, 2008 00:37

OK I look at the stuff referenced, but I dont think its what I ned.

The documents referenced seem to envisage a scenario whereby two different
people use the same computer, and that at any one time only one person is
is logged in.

My objective is that I will be logged into both of my Vista User Account
(VUA)s at the same time with full access to all facilities (not data) within
each account. I more or less have this under XP using OL for my diary and
OE to access the different mail accounts, this was setup by for me by a
person who's now overseas. I don't want to use Windows Mail (the OE
replacement) and Outlook in the same way on Vista, I want to do it all with
Outlook - a) I like Outlook, b) I just bought a brand new computer, Ofice
2007 etc.

I want to run Outlook 2007 concurrently from two VUAs, each VUA will use
Outlook to service different mail accounts, but I want the same calendar to
be available in both VUA's.
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Author: Brian Tillman
Date: Aug 6, 2008 05:34

wallaby home.com> wrote:
> The documents referenced seem to envisage a scenario whereby two
> different people use the same computer, and that at any one time only
> one person is is logged in.
>
> My objective is that I will be logged into both of my Vista User
> Account (VUA)s at the same time with full access to all facilities
> (not data) within each account.

How do you intend to do that? Do you have two keyboards and monitors
attached or do you have a second PC and you'll be using Remote Desktop
Connection, VNC, or some other rmote access tool?

If two users will be logging in at the same time, then you'll need two mail
profiles and you'll need some back-end software if you intend to share any
of the data between those users.
> I cannot believe that this is such an unusual requirement. I run a
> Not For Profit organization (NFP) and a small business (SP). I must
> keep matters concerning each delineated, if for no other reason than
> I am obliged to so by the government in order to get grants.
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Re: Multiple Vista UA's with One Outlook Calender         


Author: Diane Poremsky [MVP]
Date: Aug 6, 2008 08:06

Oh, you mean with Fast User Switching. It worked in Windows XP - two
profiles loaded. I don't think the sleeping profile received new mail until
logged in - and it wasn't all that faster than logging off and on
outlook.... better IMHO is a VPC with the second one running. Use WinXP as
the os though (or 2K if using Ol2003) - vista needs too much disk space.

Your problem is going to be the calendar sharing - both Outlooks can't use
the same calendar pst at the same time. You'll need to use calendar
publishing to accomplish that part.

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Author: Diane Poremsky [MVP]
Date: Aug 6, 2008 08:12

>
> How do you intend to do that? Do you have two keyboards and monitors
> attached or do you have a second PC and you'll be using Remote Desktop
> Connection, VNC, or some other rmote access tool?

I suppose VNC might work, but I used fast user switching when I tested it.
It might be possible using the multiple desktop feature some apps offer, but
I never tried it.

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Re: Multiple Vista UA's with One Outlook Calender         


Author: Brian Tillman
Date: Aug 6, 2008 11:18

Diane Poremsky [MVP] msn.com> wrote:
> Oh, you mean with Fast User Switching.

I didn't get that from the post. Fast user Switching means only one user at
a time. The OP specifically said two "people" using the PC at the same
time. Evern with Fast User Switching, only one user is active.
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Re: Multiple Vista UA's with One Outlook Calender         


Author: wallaby
Date: Aug 7, 2008 04:47

Hi Folks - this is composite reply to both BT's and DP's posts

I did not respond immediately as I wanted to get the User Accounts sorted
out and Outlook working with various mail accounts, I haven't put my real
mail accounts in yet, instead I'm using free accounts (POP, IMAP &
DeltaSynch) from Live, GMail, FastMail and my ISP. That seems to be working
fine.

By being logged in I did indeed mean via multiple user accounts and fast
user switching. Outlook profiles are not the only reason I do this, I need
it for the accounting package I use for both my business and the Not For
Profit (NFP) of which I'm secretary. For obviousd reeasons they must be
separated.

I do not agree with the statement - "Even with Fast User Switching, only
one user is active". Only one account will have "focus" (ie peripheral
control, via the ijnternal KVM switch), but many can be active. If I look
at the processes running on a system and I see some for User A, some for
User B then I have two active users. If User A has the focus then I dont
think that will stop a scheduled task starting up for user B. I can FUS out
of an account while its printing end of month reports and do my mail in the
other account, the reports keep printing.
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Author: Diane Poremsky [MVP]
Date: Aug 7, 2008 07:42

I must have a lot more little apps running or something - FUS was slow here.

On the calendar - yes, google or live calendar is probably the best solution
for sharing. I haven't used silverlight or mesh yet - I'm waiting for
version 3. By them there might be better uses for it than just as a
replacement for Flash.

On the Active/in focus stuff - I don't use it enough to know what all will
run when its not in focus. Based on my tests in WinXP, new mail won't
download but outlook does open to the second profile. It's not really a
problem IMHO since you aren't logged in to read it anyway. :) That was
really all I tested on it - when xp first came out I wanted to see if it
would work as a solution for people who needed to run two profiles at once.

If you use virtual pc (Microsoft's product) or VMWare you can have a second
computer running on your desktop and switch to it using the task bar. You
need to own second copy of an operating system to use it though. They are
most useful for people who test software, need to run software that only
runs on old versions of windows etc. For example, I have virtual machine on
this computer that has Outlook 2000 and one with outlook 2002 installed - if
someone asks a question about the old versions I can boot the virtual
machine and refresh my memory.
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