Read Exchange emails offline?

daztrouk · 20 Jun 2007 at 15:59

Situation:

User works in office as well as from home. She uses a laptop, and connects to the network when at work, and reads her emails through exchange using MS Outlook. Can anyone tell me how to get it set up so that she can read these same emails when shes offline at home? She needs to be able to read all of her outlook folders when at home, as though she was at work.

Dr_Evil · 20 Jun 2007 at 16:02

Ehm... just work offline when at home, and do send/receive before leaving the office?

CliffyG · 20 Jun 2007 at 16:11

If using Office 2003+ you can use cached exchange mode in the outlook profile, if not then create an offline folder file.

Terrier_Jimlad · 20 Jun 2007 at 18:21

as Cliffy said, use "cached mode" ... go into "Accounts" and click modify on her account, then tick the "cached mode" option under the address of your exchange server ... this will still prompt her for her exchange/ad details when on the network, but she can just click cancel when not on the network and it will let her read her emails as normal, where as it would normally close outlook

when she returns to the office, just tell her to click send/recieve once at the start to go back into the networked state ... really simple

Rhys · 21 Jun 2007 at 13:36

Be careful where her PST files are being stored. If they are local then they may not be backed up, if they are on network then she wont be able to read archived emails offline.

DavidMarq · 21 Jun 2007 at 16:32

daztrouk said:
Situation:

User works in office as well as from home. She uses a laptop, and connects to the network when at work, and reads her emails through exchange using MS Outlook. Can anyone tell me how to get it set up so that she can read these same emails when shes offline at home? She needs to be able to read all of her outlook folders when at home, as though she was at work.

Ignoring the fact that you said offline.

If she has the internet at home you could set up VPN and allow access to the Exchange Server. She could then also send and receive email using Outlook Web Access from her browser.

stoofa · 21 Jun 2007 at 17:53

Or you could be even more adventurous and configure RPC over https so she can remotely access her Exchange server via Outlook without the need for a VPN....

But the answer to the OP question is as said above "Cached Folders".