Shared Folders

OLfolders allows you to share a folder with team members, this enables read and write access from each work station to the same data within Outlook.

How it works

OLfolders is devided into a client and a server component.

The client will be installed as a store provider (as a service providing access to data) in Outlook. All requests to data on a shared folder gets transmitted over the wire using the TCP/IP protocol to the server component, which executes the request and sends data back to the client.

The server will be installed on a local computer, and logs on to the local Windows Messaging subsystem on its machine. The Windows Messaging subsytem (MAPI) is the data base engine for mail based applications, such as Outlook, which also connects to MAPI. All requests from clients are passed on to MAPI, which will do return data or modify the PST file. The result is sent back to the client, which is displaying it.