Outlook 2003 Unicode PST files

[Jeff Belt]

Hi

We have recently wiped and re-installed a users machine who now has Office
2003, when she runs outlook she gets a message about outlook running in
non-unicode mode when referring to the archive file. The mailbox is now on
an Exchange 2003 mode but the pst archive file is in outlook 97-2002 mode
and did work before the upgrade whilst the machine still had office 2003 (it
was upgraded from office 2000).

Is there a setting so that it can use the old archive file rather than
creating a new one and moving things across otherwise this will cause a lot
of problems in the long term, or is there a utility that can convert 97-2002
pst files to 2003?

Thanks

Jeff Belt

 

[Roady [MVP]]

No, you can't convert the 97-2002 pst-files but you can continue to work
with them untill they are "full" (up to 2GB)

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[Jeff Belt]

After the re-install it is now complaining about the format, it looks like
there is supposed to be a registry key to get round this does anyone know
what it is?

Jeff