Why change from ANSI to Unicode?

[Guest]

I know that Outlook 2003 uses the Unicode format to export information to a
..pst file.

I would like to know the reasoning behind this.

I know the answer will be obvious, but I just would like to hear Microsoft's
explanation for this decision.

Thanks,
Craig

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Unicode PSTs allow for much larger PSTs than old format PSTs. That might be
one reason

 

[Guest]

Yes, that is what I figured.

Does/will Microsoft provide any kind of conversion utility?

If we ever upgrade from 2002 to 2003, I can imagine wide spread headaches.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Does/will Microsoft provide any kind of conversion utility?

None is needed.

If we ever upgrade from 2002 to 2003, I can imagine wide spread
headaches.

When we performed a wholesale upgrade from OL 2000/2002 to OL 2003 on over
1,000 PCs, we had no trouble (at least as far as PSTs go), since OL 2003
happily works with ANSI PSTs.

The conversion to a Unicode PST is fairly straight-forward. One way is to
export the ANSI PST to a PST. BY default, this will be a Unicode PST. You
can lose data that way, however. The way that doesn't lose data is also
straight-forward, if tedious for PSTs with many folders. Create a new
Unicode PST, make it the delivery location, copy all non-default folders
from the old to the new and copy the contents of all default folders from
the old to the new.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Craig

For information, see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402551033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402611033.aspx
For (the BAD news on) conversion, see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010383511033.aspx

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone for your inputs.

G'Day Craig

For information, see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402551033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402611033.aspx
For (the BAD news on) conversion, see:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP010383511033.aspx
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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