RE: [WinMac] Mac Outlook -- multiple users?

PetersJB@nswccd.navy.mil
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:51:01 -0500

The terminology you'll need to look for is "Profiles". There can be
multiple profiles to support multiple users and/or one user with multiple
service characteristics (servers, dial-up vs. always connected, etc.).

You set it up using Outlook Settings, an alias for which you'll usually find
in your Control Panels. If it's not there, the application itself is
installed in the same folder as your Outlook client application. Make sure
Outlook isn't running, and then launch Outlook Settings.

 From the main window, select "Show Profiles". You'll probably see a single
generically-named profile. I usually try to name the profile according to
the user name, matching login ID, or according to the type of special
service it uses. In any case, you can create and configure multiple
profiles. In the set-up process you can enter different server identities.
I believe you can also duplicate existing profiles and then edit the copy,
changing only the user name.

Things to look out for:
- Personal Address Books. Will each user have a separate one? Where will
  they be saved (locally or on a file server).
- Personal Folder: Same as above.
- Profile Passwords: You can enable password so that users have to
  authenticate themselves locally even before logging into the Exchange
  server.
- Start-up profile: From within the Outlook client, you can set a
  configuration to prompt the user to select a profile during Outlook
  launch. Failing this Outlook will open with a default profile selected.

So what you most likely will have is a two-step process. First, use Outlook
Settings to create multiple profiles which specify Exchange server, UserID,
PAB location, and PST location. Second, use Outlook client to specify that
you want to be prompted for a User Profile at startup.

Once the profiles are created, their services can be adjusted from within
the Outlook client (Tools: Services).

Good luck.

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> ----------
> From: Frankenstein, Paul
> Reply To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Sent: Monday, April 5, 1999 3:33 PM
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> Subject: [WinMac] Mac Outlook -- multiple users?
>
> Anyone out there know how to setup Outlook to run for multiple users on
> a single Mac? If it makes any difference, it's quite likely that the
> users affected have their accounts on different Exchange servers...

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