migrate emails fr. Outlook 2007 (xp pro) to Windows Mail (Vista)

[Yazou]

Is there a way to migrate my mails and contacts from Outlook 2007 (Running
under Windows XP Professional) to Windows Mail (running under Windows Vista
Home)

 

[Andrew Murray]

Is there a way to migrate my mails and contacts from Outlook 2007 (Running
under Windows XP Professional) to Windows Mail (running under Windows
Vista
Home)

If you go File >import you will see the list of applications from which you
can import messages and settings. "Outlook" is one of the options. I
expect the fact that only "Outlook" is listed rather than specific (recent)
versions, it should be taken to mean "any version of outlook". It does
list Outlook 6 separately

Windows Mail is the new "Outlook Express" equivalent in Vista, and Outlook
2007 is the newest Office email app, so it should be expected the two can
work together.

I just tried importing message to Windows Mail from Outlook 2007 (albeit on
the same machine running Vista) but Windows Mail will import Outlook 2007
message (and I expect mail box settings etc) without too much trouble.

However if you're trying to transfer messages and settings from one PC with
XP/Outlook 2007 to another PC with Vista/Windows Mail then you probably
need to do the "Export" routine in Outlook 2007 (or use the "Files and
Settings Transfer Wizard" in XP), and then import with the same equivalent
tool in Vista.

More specifically, the experts at the Outlook (2007) or Office (2007) groups
may be able to help, or the Windows Mail group as you've posted to the Vista
General group, and your question is more about email than about using Vista
itself.

 

[DL]

Outlook has to be installed and configured on the Vista pc before in Mail
you can import

Or, on the old PC, configure outlook Express, export Mail to OE, then export
Contacts to the wab
Copy wab & the OE msg store to Vista PC, then import in Mail
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

 

[Chad Harris]

As to emails in my experience, if they are on the same machine you should be
able to since emails in Outlook are going to be in Outlook Express. This is
the way I've done it. I've also gone from one Windows Mail to another
Windows Mail that was in a different partition on the same box using this
method.

See:

http://www.vista4beginners.com/Migrate-from-Outlook-Express-to-Windows-Mail

CH

 

[Gordon]

As to emails in my experience, if they are on the same machine you should
be able to since emails in Outlook are going to be in Outlook Express.

Eh? Of course not. You would have to import the emails before they appear in
OE!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

As to emails in my experience, if they are on the same machine you should be
able to since emails in Outlook are going to be in Outlook Express.

I've read that sentence several times now, but I don't understand what
you're trying to say.

Perhaps you don't understand that Outlook and Outlook Express are two
very different programs.

Perhaps you also don't understand that Outlook Express is not
available in Vista at all; it's been replaced by Windows Mail.

And finally, Outlook can indeed be installed on a computer running
Windows Vista.

 

[Chad Harris]

Yo @Gordon--

I have never had Outlook and OE or Outlook and Win Mail on a box in either
Vista or Windows 7 installed on several machines where I have not been able
to do just what I said successfully.

It is amusing to me that you are so certain with the "Of course not" when
obviously you don't understand this or haven't tried it.

Anytime I send an email to my Outlook or Win Mail account or in XP Outlook
or OE account, I have been able to import those exact same emails that are
in OE or in Vista Win Mail every time without fail since all the Outlook
emails have been in OE or Win Mail. This has been the case on XP, Vista,
and Win 7 to date.

So I'd rethink the "Eh of course not." Maybe it's Eh of course not for you
because you haven't tried it or didn't follow the directions properly.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

Ken--

The OP asked:

"Is there a way to migrate my mails and contacts from Outlook 2007 (Running
under Windows XP Professional) to Windows Mail (running under Windows Vista
Home)"

If he has OL 2007 and either Win Mail (Vista's freebie) or OE (actually
develped for years in conjunction with many of hte components of IE by MSFT
under the hood in several OS's) the free mail client in XP and OS's prior to
it, then whatever mail shows up in OL 2007 is going to show up in Win Mail
or OE respectively via his ISP's server.

I assumed, because it's been my situation on some boxes that the OP had XP
with OE and Vista with Winmail **on the same box.***

***Let me be clear for you. XP and Vista on the same box.***

But he did not say, did he? I should have asked him where he has XP and
where he has Vista and made the point clear about the email showing up in OE
and Outlook simultaneously if they are on the same box.

Even if he has Outlook and OE (XP) or Outlook and Win Mail (on the same box)
on different partitions he can still import accross the partitions. So
while I recognized he was naming Outlook with the original emails and
contacts, he would have the same mail in both using the same ISP on each
partition if he has multiple partitions.

And he has to be using some ISP. That ISP's server is going to distribute
mail to his Outlook account, his OE if XP account, and his Winmail if Vista
account and his Windows Live mail account simultaneously if he's using
Windows 7. The OP didn't specify if he is using a dual or more boot on the
same box though. And to be as clear and explicit as I can, whatever emails
he has in Outlook or going to be in Win Mail. His contacts are of course
stored in these locations per Slipstick:

http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup2007.asp

http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/

And it's very easy to import from XP's OE to Vista's WinMail if he does.
I did make one presupposition though, and that is that the OP had both OE
and Win Mail configured up and ready to send and receive mail, since he
asked about them.

I've seen a lot of your posts on other forums, if I remember correctly, but
you must be relatively new to this one.

The reason I say that is that untill I got busy I was posting prolifically
on this group and the Vista setup group since they started and on Vista well
since before these groups started in other forums on it, including MSFT's.

I've posted hundreds if not a few thousand times on this group and the Vista
setup group. I concentrate mainly on people who are having major systemic
problems with the OS or can't boot, and I've been helping people with Vista
since the Beta started in 7/05. I used to retrieve information on MSFT
licensing because I knew the websites well and what Office had what programs
in it, but I don't have time for that anymore and don't do it when someone
could easily search that using googleMSN Search, or search on
www.microsoft.com and they are too lazy. Once in a while I'll still help
with fixing features in Vista or features lost but I don't do much of it any
more.

I've followed some of the Outlook blogs both from the MSFT teams and the
book authors who maintain them for years when I get the time. OL isn't a
huge area of interest for me, but I use it and apprecaite its features for
business mail.

http://outlook-tips.net/cs/blogs/outlooktips/default.aspx

Outlook Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/04/07/introducing-smsofficer.aspx

http://office.weblogsinc.com/2005/12/20/a-great-outlook-blog/


Someone would have to be awfully new to Windows not to understand what free
mail program is in what OS.

Last time I checked,

OE is free in XP and prior.
Win Mail is free in Vista .
Windows Live Mail is free in Windows 7,


If I didn 't know the difference between OE, WinMail, WinLive (free program
in Win 7) or Outlook I wouldn't have wasted time answering the question.

Actually I do understand the difference between OE and OL and Win Mail and
OE and although you can bring up Win Mail in Windows 7, it's difficult in my
experience and Windows 7 is showcasing Windows Live Mail as its free email
program.

I understand you haven't read any of the hundreds of posts I've made on this
group or the Vista setup group since they started or I don't think you would
have mistaken that I don't know the "differene between OE and Outlook and
that one is Microsoft's cash cow for enterprises and one is the free program
that the OE MVPs have lobbied MSFT for features in for years and have not
gotten them.

OE and Win Mail are the free programs that the OE MVPs have struggled for
years to get MSFT to develop features opn, and it's been a valiant but
futile struggle.

Outlook is the free standing or Office component and Office is far and away
the leading revenue cash cow for anyone holding Microsoft stock.

I'm looking at my book shelf and I see about 20 books on Outlook including
the ones/edited by several of the Outlook MVPs for years, including Sue
Mosher's latest book on Programming Outlook.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Outlook-2007-Programming-Administrators/dp/1555583466

If you google my name and the word Outlook, or use http://groups.google.com
or one of the newsgroup searchers, you'll see about 100-200 posts where
I've helped and answered questions on Outlook groups, OE groups, and
another few hundred on the Word and Office groups during the last several
years.

This includes a lot of posts in the Office setup group when there was so
much difficulty with installing Office 2003 SP1 because MSFT needed to tweak
the code and Sloan Crayton, the author of many of the Office MSKBs and
developer of much of the Office installation setup, was so helpful during
that period.

Let me be as explicit as I can for you. If you have any questions I'd be
delighted to try to answer them.

In Windows 7:

Anytime I send an email to Windows Live Mail (its free program), and there
is Office on the same box in the same partition, I get the same email in
Outlook via my ISP's server. I have seen Win Mail pop up in Win 7 but it's
a fluke because that's not the way it's designed. I prefer Win Mail to
Windows Live Mail but in Win 7 you can access newsgroups from Windows Live
Mail and except for the gui and some lost features unfortunately, they are
pretty much the same.

In Vista SP2, SP1, and RTM:

Anytime I send email to Win Mail the email shows up in Outlook.

In XP, anytime I send an email to OE, the email shows up in Outlook.

So because of this, the OP was asking about Outlook but he has to have OE or
WinMail on his box depending on the OS. Now it is true that if he has not
configured OE in XP or Win Mail in Vista to send/receive mail, then it isn't
going to have the emails that are sent to his outlook account. But if he
has, he will.

So that's why I honed in on using his Win Mail or OE account and importing
from it and I did that because if he has Outlook and he's configured OE then
all his Outlook emails should have been showing up in OE or Win Mail
depeninding on which OS. I have been able to do this on dual boots and
triple boots accross partitions and that's the main reason I've done it.
There are third party programs that will do this, but I haven't used any of
them.

The email will show up first in whichever of those two email clients is
opened up first.

Best,

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

Ken--I've read this several times and it's hard to believe my eyes that you
could seriously consider any of your perhapses to be true with all respect
due.

How could someone be a veteran helper on this group and the Vista setup
group as well as many other MSFT groups including Office, and Outlook groups
and not know the difference between OL, OE, Win Mail,, and Windows Live Mail
and what OS's they're on.

Try View>Find>CH and see the posts that come up, or try searching Chad
Harris in google groups, or any of the other newsgroup search engines.

At least you didn't "perhaps" that I confused Vista with OS 10.5 or Linux
but that one wasn't far off was it?

CH

 

[Gordon]

Yo @Gordon--

I have never had Outlook and OE or Outlook and Win Mail on a box in either
Vista or Windows 7 installed on several machines where I have not been
able to do just what I said successfully.

It is amusing to me that you are so certain with the "Of course not" when
obviously you don't understand this or haven't tried it.

Anytime I send an email to my Outlook or Win Mail account or in XP Outlook
or OE account, I have been able to import those exact same emails that are
in OE or in Vista Win Mail every time without fail since all the Outlook
emails have been in OE or Win Mail. This has been the case on XP, Vista,
and Win 7 to date.

So I'd rethink the "Eh of course not." Maybe it's Eh of course not for
you because you haven't tried it or didn't follow the directions properly.

You didn't read your own post did you? You said:
"As to emails in my experience, if they are on the same machine you should
To which I replied correctly Of course they are NOT. Unless you import,
which you FAILED TO MENTION.
Emails do NOT appear automatically in both unless you set up both to
download email from the mail server.
I suggest you read what you post before you post it...

 

[Gordon]

Ken--

The OP asked:

"Is there a way to migrate my mails and contacts from Outlook 2007
(Running
under Windows XP Professional) to Windows Mail (running under Windows
Vista
Home)"

If he has OL 2007 and either Win Mail (Vista's freebie) or OE (actually
develped for years in conjunction with many of hte components of IE by
MSFT under the hood in several OS's) the free mail client in XP and OS's
prior to it, then whatever mail shows up in OL 2007 is going to show up in
Win Mail or OE respectively via his ISP's server.

Rubbish, UNLESS the OP sets the mail client to keep a copy on the server. If
the Op does not, and that's the default setting of any mail client then the
emails will NOT "be on the server".

 

[Chad Harris]

LOL--Rubbish yourself Gordon. I always crave respect from individuals like
you. I appreciate the thousands of times you've poswted on this group since
it started to help the people who can't boot Vista on their box. Your
service and quality is amazing. I'd like to know which aspect of what I
have said specifically that you object to that

a) you think I can't get done
b) you are willing to sign a document betting significant money that I can't
get done

Let me know how sure you are I'm making my statements up and specifically
which part of what I've stated you think can't be done. LOL to the 64th

Instead of childishly screaming rubish, why don't you be specific about what
you think I haven't done importing the same mail from either client across
partitions on the same box in a dual or triple boot.

***BTW Gordon, you don't know whether the OP had those OS's on the same box
or not. He has not stated whether he does or does not.***

I have also noticed that with Win Mail, on a dual boot unlike with OE
(probably because there are in fact different mail formats in Win Mail and
OE that mail on one partition to Win Mail will show up simultaneously on the
other parition(s) in Win Mail without doing any importing at all. This
specifically refers to a dual or multiboot system on a box where you have
dual booted Vista on separate partitions or Windows 7 and Vista on separate
partitions.

I always set it to keep a copy on the server, because if you don't, you can
often lose mail in both those clients and I like to make sure the mail shows
up as close to simultaneously as possible. And I don't post methods of
getting things done, Gordon that I haven't made happen myself.

I posted the link because there are screen shots, but when you keep a copy
on the server (I use 5 or 10 days as that setting) your email to either
Outlook or OE on XP, Outlook or Win Mail on Vista, or Outlook or Windows
Live Mail on Windows 7 is going to show up in both clients on the respective
operating systems. And when that happens, intuitively, if you know the
file path where the mail is stored, you can inport from either accross
partitions if you have to to either of the clients.

If I thought you were worth the time, I could do it on my Win 7/Vista SP2
dual boot and provide screen shots, but sceen shots aren't real welcome here
unless you do them via links (because the global bandwidth issues are always
raised).

It makes me smile to think someone like you accuses me of lying on these
newsgroups about importing email; the fact that I keep the messages on the
server for 10 days (I'm not sure how that impacts this because I've done it
when I've set messages on the server for only a few days and it makes no
difference, about the fact that all of my emails show up in both the free
MSFT email clients and Outlook and this has been the case with Outlook 2002
in XP, Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, and the coming version of Outlook in
which MSFT tells me they will be positioning, proferring, and advertising
Office as a portal to a number of servers for enterprises to realize the
functionality of Sharepoint, Unified Communications Server, and Hyper-V
Visor to stress instant communication all the time--at least that was the
message in the meeting I was at last week.

CH

 

[Chad Harris]

And specifically, when I stated that OE and Win Mail have different email
formats, I meant that OE has .dbx and Win Mail has .eml. I have found this
helpful from Steve Cochran, Ph. D. OE MVP:

http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

CH

 

[Gordon]

LOL--Rubbish yourself Gordon. I always crave respect from individuals
like you. I appreciate the thousands of times you've poswted on this
group since it started to help the people who can't boot Vista on their
box. Your service and quality is amazing. I'd like to know which aspect
of what I have said specifically that you object to that

Plonk! idiot.

 

[measekite]

You didn't read your own post did you? You said:
"As to emails in my experience, if they are on the same machine you should

To which I replied correctly Of course they are NOT. Unless you import,
which you FAILED TO MENTION.
Emails do NOT appear automatically in both unless you set up both to
download email from the mail server.
I suggest you read what you post before you post it...

Outlook is real garbage