Office 97 - How do I select folders to synchronize 1

[Alicg]

I'm asking this question on behalf of my brother - we are a little confused as to what to do when he is trying to share files with the server at work.
He dials up the server at work and then clicks on
"Tools - Synchronize - All folders". (Does "All Folders" mean inbox, calendar, notes, journal, everything??)
Because he wants to make sure that his email and other private items are not shared so does he set up a Public folder, select it and then chooose "Synchronize - This Folder"?
How does he set up a public folder? I can't see where to select it in the menus (and File-Folder-Add to Public Folders is dimmed on my PC).

Also he can send and receive email via the work server but he wants to do this without anyone at work seeing or having access to his email. I suggested he get his own free dial-up account and get yahoo mail or hotmail or whatever and use that as his address instead. Is this the best way to go? Thanks for any help - much appreciated!

 

[Dreamboat]

No. What he does is create personal folders. (Tools-Services and add personal folders as a service; a personal folder will appear at the bottom of all his server stuff.) Public folders are generally not set up by users but by admins (the network guys) because they're public to everyone on your brother's Exchange Server, meaning everybody at work. If he sets up personal folders, they WON'T synchronize, only everything currently under Outlook today will. He may choose to store the personal folder on a network drive at work or on his C: drive. Either way, nobody can get in as long as his outlook is password protected.
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[Dreamboat]

PS: The folders that synchronize are *.ost files (offline folders) on his hard drive; the folders that don't will be the *.pst (personal folders). If he always wants access to his PST, he'll need to store it on C.
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