Is it possible to have multiple installations on a single PC for multiple users? I have several users on a PC, each with their own Outlook installation. I want each user to be able to use General Sync, syncing an address book to a common server. I cannot get this to work.
The first user is fine. For the second user the shared address book does not show up. Is it possible t make it show?
Is it possible to have multiple installations on a single PC for multiple users?
It should work out of the box if your users are not logged in at the same time. If you want to support multiple users being logged in at the same computer at the same time, you need to change the port in the advanced settings: only one user may use each port at any given time, others will get an error message.
Note that changing the port is an advanced setting for a reason: you need to manually enter the port on the other device when pairing, and ports are shared between all applications, so using a port another application relies on may cause issues on your computer. That said, incrementing the port is likely safe if you are in a personal network that is administered by yourself, at the time of writing this response, the ports from 7963-7966 are not registered for any application. This may change at any time, though.
The first user is fine. For the second user the shared address book does not show up. Is it possible t make it show?
Assuming the common server is running, you can treat the second user's instance as if it were a different device: you can pair it with your server, where it will be listed as seprate, independent device. Make sure to select the option to trust the other device when pairing. If you do that on both ends, your address book should get transferred automatically.
If that does not work, you need to provide more information: do you see the address book in GeneralSync? If not, what do you see on the server (it should indicate that the address book is syncing both ways)? If you do see it in GeneralSync, do you see the "GeneralSync" node in Outlook, even if the address book is missing? Are there any error messages?
