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How do you manage Outlook Personal Folders between multiple devices?

How do you manage Outlook Personal Folders between multiple devices?

This seems to be a recurring problem. I have users who have 2 devices they use on a regular basis: their desktop at work and a portable lightweight notebook.

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bert [Entry]

"What I do for my users, is have them use RDP to their desktops and they can just access all their local data and network shares as if they are at work. I stopped using VPN only because to me it seemed much slower, where as with RDP it was a bit more easier and faster. Granted it is 1 extra step for your users but if you pre-configure their RDP connections for them, it's just a shortcut. Alternatively your proposed solution of putting the PST on the network shares would probably work, but I don't know how performance would be affected, probably not as nice well as expected.

Edit: Mind you, I still have them VPN then RDP, not RDP directly. Additionally, you use less resources and also it is more secure than having all Outlook data downloaded onto your user's laptops in case they ever got stolen."