Office2010Beta-Outlook

[Tim Wilbers]

I downloaded Office 2010 Beta - I had previously downloaded the 'Backup'
function for my previous version of Outlook, and set it for a daily backup
(it just popped up when I closed Outlook down) - in the new version I have to
do it manually (when I eventually found it!).
I cannot seem to be able set the Backup function by clicking File,Backup etc.
Has something been missed?
Is there a newer version of 'Backup' to download for this Beta version?

 

[VanguardLH]

I downloaded Office 2010 Beta - I had previously downloaded the 'Backup'
function for my previous version of Outlook, and set it for a daily backup
(it just popped up when I closed Outlook down) - in the new version I have to
do it manually (when I eventually found it!).
I cannot seem to be able set the Backup function by clicking File,Backup etc.
Has something been missed?
Is there a newer version of 'Backup' to download for this Beta version?

This newsgroup discusses the released versions.

Microsoft Office 2010 forums are at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/office2010

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The Backup Add-in is shown on the Add-in tabs in the Ribbon.
Due to shutdown changes in Outlook 2010, the add-in will indeed no longer
prompt you.
You can either initiate the backups manually, wait until an updated version
will be released or apply the registry fix below.

To change it back to the shutdown behavior of Outlook 2007 SP2 add the
following entry in the registry;

Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Microsoft.OutlookBackup.1
Value name: RequireShutdownNotification
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

For more info about applying this registry key see;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/290

 

[Tim Wilbers]

Thanks Roady, that seems to have worked. I also looked at the link you gave.
Pity the 'techies' at MS didn't think to include the backup feature as
standard. It's a nightmare when a crash happens and you loose emails,
contacts etc.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!
I've also posted it here;
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/421

Well, the good thing about Outlook 2010 is that by default the pst-files are
stored in your "(My) Documents" folder now. So when you were to backup that
folder on a regular basis for all your other data already, there would not
be a direct need for the separate Backup Add-in anymore.