I have 3 users who have new PCs. I exported their address books to
.PST files before giving them new PCs.
Perhaps you mean you exported their Contacts folders. The Address Book has
no ability to export to a PST. And why would you transfer only their
contacts and not all the other data they had, like mail, calendar, tasks,
and so on?
When I imported the PST to the
address book it made the distrabution list ... but it didn't popluate
any of the members of the group. All they have is a blank DL. What
have I done wrong and how can Import populated DLs?
DLs do not survive exporting or importing. It's one of the reasons "never
export to or import from a pst" has been posted in this newsgroup many times
every single day. If you want to transfer your Contacts folder, create a
new PST (File>New>Outlook Data File). Then select the Contacts folder and
click Edit>Copy to Folder, specifying the new PST as the destination. When
the copy completes, right-click the root of the new PST and choose Close.
Close Outlook. Now you have a PST that is movable.
On the new PC, open Outlook and then open the PST with File>Open>Outlook
Data File. They can then open the Contacts folder in that PST, select all
the data in it with Edit>Copy (or Move) to Folder, specifying the default
Contacts folder as the destination. When the copy completes, they can close
the source PST.
