Migrating from desktop Outlook to Exchange

[USC Psycho]

My Outlook has a huge PST. I'm planning to start using hosted Exchange so
that I can share this data with another computer. I'm not sure what the
process is though.

My domain & mail are currently hosted by a web host that doesn't offer
hosted Exchange. Can I sign up with an Exchange host and have them pull email
from my current mail server, or do I need to transfer my domain to the new
host?

For unrelated reasons, I also want to know if the following is possible. Can
I import my PST from Outlook to the Exchange server so that all my data is
replicated on the hosted Exchange server. Then continue to download email
from my current mail server using desktop Outlook (as I've been doing all
along) and have it replicated on the Exchange server in real time. I know
this sounds backwards. My reasons for wanting to do this aren't worth trying
to explain, but you can think of it is using the Exchange server to backup my
desktop PST in the cloud.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Yes, you can do this but the exact method depends on the hosted Exchange
provider that you choose.

A method that goes for any is that you simply configure Outlook with both
accounts and set the Exchange account and mailbox as the default. You can
then simply move/copy all your items from the pst-file to the Exchange
mailbox.

To answer your other question; yes, you can set the delivery location of the
POP3 account to the Inbox folder of your Exchange mailbox. This way all
incoming POP3 messages will be stored in the Exchange mailbox as well and
will be uploaded to the server when the mailbox syncs with the server. How
you do this depends on your Outlook version. For methods see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/sortmail.htm

Make sure you get an account with sufficient storage if you are going to
upload all your archives to it as well.

 

[Ingmar Van Glabbeek]

You can safely export your current mails and import them in your
exchange mailbox afterwards.

Op 17/03/2010 12:04, USC Psycho schreef:

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No need to export anything since the mails are already in a pst-file.