Migrating settings-account details from Outlook Express to Outlook

[Sunny]

Hi, On Sunday I have been asked to install Office 2007 Professional on a
friends PC
(WindowsXP Pro SP3)
Currently the user is using Outlook Express for mail and News groups (IE7)
Are there any tutorials/guidelines available, to save and migrate all
e-mail/News group settings during the Install?
(The Office 2007 pro is a retail version, purchased today)
All I have asked her to do prior, is to do a disk clean up and defrag.

 

[DL]

Outlook has no newsreader capability, you continue to use Express for
newgroups, though you can create a specific shortcut eg "C:\Program
Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /news
Once outlook is configured, within Express you Export msgs to Outlook, and
in Outlook you Import the address book (Do not within Outlook Import mail)

 

[Sunny]

Thanks, just to be clear, I
a. From within OE, "export" all mail to Outlook, and
b. From within Outlook "Import" the address book?
Is it necessary to create the same "named" folders to export mail to?
Do ISP mail settings have to be re-done, or can they be "exported"?

 

[DL]

a) yes (only once Outlook is configured)
b) yes
Outlook has a differnt method to Express with Mail, ie you can add folders
to Inbox or Sent but you can also designate a Category
Its better to create/enter the ISP mail accounts; although you can export in
OE the mail settings to an iaf file, then import them into Outlook, it often
causes problems with password remembering

If within Outlook you chose to import msgs from OE then the modified date
would be set to the Import date, which has unintended consequences on the
outlook archive options, which works on the modified date

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Is it necessary to create the same "named" folders to export mail to?

Exporting from OE should duplicate the folder structure you have. It only
works on the default identity, however. If you have multiple identities, you
have some work to do by switching identities around and organizing the
exported stuff in Outlook, unless you intend to merge all identities into one
mail profile.

Do ISP mail settings have to be re-done, or can they be "exported"?

In Outlook, click File>Import and Export>Import Internet Mail Account
Settings.

 

[Sunny]

Exporting from OE should duplicate the folder structure you have. It
only works on the default identity, however. If you have multiple
identities, you have some work to do by switching identities around and
organizing the exported stuff in Outlook, unless you intend to merge all
identities into one mail profile.


In Outlook, click File>Import and Export>Import Internet Mail Account
Settings.

Thanks for the info
Her ISP provides separate e-mail addresses for each user, hopefully it
will become clearer as to how two or more "profiles" operate in one
Outlook (OE kept it simple with "Identities")

(Without having to Log on and off from Windows XP)

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Her ISP provides separate e-mail addresses for each user, hopefully it will
become clearer as to how two or more "profiles" operate in one Outlook (OE
kept it simple with "Identities")

Separate email addresses for each user does not necessarily equate to separate
identities in Outlook Express or separate profiles in Outlook. You can have
multiple accounts (a one-to-one correspondence exists between e-mail address
and account) in a single identity or mail profile. In either case, the
multiple accounts will utilize the same folder set (Inbox, Outbox, etc.).
Identities in OE allowed people to have separate folder sets and that's what
profiles do in Outlook. Outlook 2007 allows the specification of a separate
Inbox and Sent Items folders for each account within the same profile without
using rules, but those folders will be available to anyone using the mail
profile. Separate profiles allow one to completely isolate the folders for
each account and can prevent one person from being able to access the data of
the other person.