Outlook 2003 sync with new exchange 2003 server

[UTN]

Hi,
I got Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 20003 as the main client as part of
an upcoming upgrade. My question is simple, currently users are using an
IMAP server to connect to their email (no exchange server) and they have of
course all their contacts, tasks and calendar packed full . When they
finally connect to exchange server with rpc over http, how should Outlook
react? Will Outlook be smart enought to take their current calendar, tasks,
contacts, notes from outlook and sync it up to the server upon sync? Or do
they have to redo the entries for Outlook to sync with exchange server?

Basically, upon upgrade, users will remove old IMAP account (which does not
affect their calendar, contacts and so on anyways), and they will set up
their new exchange email within the same profile as before.

Hope this makes snese,
Thank you
UTN

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

they'll need to import the items into Exchange, either using file, import or
by leaving the pst in the profile and dragging the items into the exchange
mailbox.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,
I got Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 20003 as the main client as part of
an upcoming upgrade. My question is simple, currently users are using an
IMAP server to connect to their email (no exchange server) and they have
of course all their contacts, tasks and calendar packed full . When they
finally connect to exchange server with rpc over http, how should Outlook
react? Will Outlook be smart enought to take their current calendar,
tasks, contacts, notes from outlook and sync it up to the server upon
sync? Or do they have to redo the entries for Outlook to sync with
exchange server?

Basically, upon upgrade, users will remove old IMAP account (which does
not affect their calendar, contacts and so on anyways), and they will set
up their new exchange email within the same profile as before.

Hope this makes snese,
Thank you
UTN

Are these users on the same LAN/WAN?

I'd probably suggest creating a new mail profile for each user, instead of
modifying an old one - that contains only Exchange, and then opening the PST
file (file | open | Outlook data file...) and selecting/copying items
therein.

OR - copy all PST files to a central location, renaming them to match the
Exchange alias (aliasname.pst) and use Exmerge on the server to import the
data, making sure the PSTs are not too large to fit your mailbox quotas.

 

[UTN]

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Users are not on the same LAN as the exchange server. Using RPC over HTTP to
access the exchange server.
When I open the outlook data file of the old server into the new exchange
profile of outlook 2003, I can only transfer over the emails and sent items.
But I can't seem to transfer the calendar, contacts and tasks...

Am I missing something?

Thank you,
UTN

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Users are not on the same LAN as the exchange server. Using RPC over
HTTP to access the exchange server.
When I open the outlook data file of the old server into the new
exchange profile of outlook 2003, I can only transfer over the emails
and sent items. But I can't seem to transfer the calendar, contacts
and tasks...
Am I missing something?

You can copy anything you can open. (For calendar, change the view to
'events')
Select all, right-click, drag to the right mailbox folder, release, copy.

Thank you,
UTN

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Are these users on the same LAN/WAN?

I'd probably suggest creating a new mail profile for each user,
instead of modifying an old one - that contains only Exchange, and
then opening the PST file (file | open | Outlook data file...) and
selecting/copying items therein.

OR - copy all PST files to a central location, renaming them to
match the Exchange alias (aliasname.pst) and use Exmerge on the
server to import the data, making sure the PSTs are not too large to
fit your mailbox quotas.

 

[UTN]

Thanks!
Couldn't see you could change between the two accounts from the top-left
corner.
UTN


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

In

Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Users are not on the same LAN as the exchange server. Using RPC over
HTTP to access the exchange server.
When I open the outlook data file of the old server into the new
exchange profile of outlook 2003, I can only transfer over the emails
and sent items. But I can't seem to transfer the calendar, contacts
and tasks...
Am I missing something?

You can copy anything you can open. (For calendar, change the view to
'events')
Select all, right-click, drag to the right mailbox folder, release, copy.

Thank you,
UTN

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

Hi,
I got Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 20003 as the main client as
part of an upcoming upgrade. My question is simple, currently
users are using an IMAP server to connect to their email (no
exchange server) and they have of course all their contacts, tasks
and calendar packed full . When they finally connect to exchange
server with rpc over http, how should Outlook react? Will Outlook
be smart enought to take their current calendar, tasks, contacts,
notes from outlook and sync it up to the server upon sync? Or do
they have to redo the entries for Outlook to sync with exchange
server? Basically, upon upgrade, users will remove old IMAP account
(which
does not affect their calendar, contacts and so on anyways), and
they will set up their new exchange email within the same profile
as before. Hope this makes snese,
Thank you
UTN


Are these users on the same LAN/WAN?

I'd probably suggest creating a new mail profile for each user,
instead of modifying an old one - that contains only Exchange, and
then opening the PST file (file | open | Outlook data file...) and
selecting/copying items therein.

OR - copy all PST files to a central location, renaming them to
match the Exchange alias (aliasname.pst) and use Exmerge on the
server to import the data, making sure the PSTs are not too large to
fit your mailbox quotas.