User Defined Categories

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Where are user defined categories that are not part of the master category
list stored? Outlook 2003, Exchange 2000.
 
They're stored where all categories are stored -- on each item that uses that category.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Thanks Sue. I now may need to tell you what we are trying to do. We put a
number of new mailboxes onto our Exchange server. We received PST for all the
new people who joined us from a different company.

The previous company used xmerge to create those PST files. We then used
xmerge to import them into our Exchange.

Some of the users had user defined categories that are not available on
their new mailboxes with us. We looked at their previous NT profiles and the
registry entries that store the master category list - but there are no
entries at all.

So I assumed that the user defined categories were never added to the master
list - hence my question where they are stored.

Now, looking at your answer, they would be stored "on" or with the contacts
they used. Since they are not there, did the xmerge process strip them?

I hope this makes sense - and thank you so much for your time already.
 
Actually it doesn't make sense. There is no such thing as a category not being available on a mailbox. Categories have no association with mailboxes, in the first place. Any category is always "available" because a user can simply type in whatever category text they want to assign to an item. The categories set on an item are stored in the individual item. In other words, if you assign a category of Red to an item, it doesn't matter whether Red is in the master category list. That item will still have a category of Red.

Are you saying that the imported contacts had categories in the old mailbox but those same items have no categories in the new mailbox? I can't explain why that might have happened.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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