Roady
Sun Mar 23 06:13:00 PDT 2008
Or lose a few mail accounts ;-) I personally prefer multiple aliases on a
single mailbox than having multiple mailboxes.
It's indeed a shame that there isn't such a tool but so far I have yet to
come across a tool that does it that reliably that I will actually trust my
transferred configuration afterwards. Not having an "too old" original
installation and a very similar target installation will increase the
reliability though. Yours sounds like it's worth a shot but plan some
manually recovery time either way ;-)
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"Jonathan R. Portwood" <jontyrp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:FBDA8DE1-C3A9-4F61-BB29-601A2C6B6875@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Roady,
> It might be quicker to manually re-do the settings, IF you only have a
> single e-mail account in Outlook. I have 8 separate accounts so it's much
> quicker to use some sort of migration tool than to manually enter the
> settings for all 8 accounts! All the accounts are POP3/IMAP accounts, not
> Exchange Accounts. Hence using ABF Outlook Backup in the past. But
> as I mentioned that isn't an option this time.
>
> It seems a shame that there isn't an easy way of exporting your account
> settings, especially since both Outlook Express and Windows Mail (on
> Vista)
> have that option. It seems a little backward to not have that facility
> avaliable in Outlook. I'm sure I'm not the first person who has need to
> transfer settings from one system to another!!! Anyway I'll give the
> Windows
> Easy Transfer Tool a go and see if that will surfice.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jonathan R. Portwood.
>
> "Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote
> in message news:F1FCE086-7367-4CD0-AA14-FA6BCA2B68B6@microsoft.com...
>> Personally I avoid using such tools to do a cross computer restore of my
>> settings because of the amount of dependencies You're usually much faster
>> doing the settings manually than fixing the issues that come with them.
>> Configuring it is only a matter of minutes. If the computer is really
>> similar you can use the Windows Easy Transfer tool of Windows Vista.
>>
>> --
>> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
>> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
>>
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
>> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>>
>>
http://www.msoutlook.info/
>> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>>
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>>
>> "Jonathan R. Portwood" <jontyrp@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:028D636D-99BD-4D6E-B353-4012AE689850@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Roady,
>>> Can you suggest a third party tool for saving Outlook 2007 Account
>>> Settings. I'm about to transfer everything to a new laptop and would
>>> really appreciate NOT having to enter all my Account Settings manually
>>> into Outlook 2007 on the new computer!
>>>
>>> I'm currently running MS Outlook 2007 SP1 with Business Contact Manager,
>>> on Vista Business Edition (no SP1 yet).
>>> The new system will be pretty much exactly the same, except that it'll
>>> have Vista Business Edition SP1 installed.
>>>
>>> In the past I've used a program called 'ABF Outlook Backup' from ABF
>>> Software www.abf-soft.com Unfortunately, according to the ABF-Soft
>>> website, the current version of ABF Outlook Backup isn't compatible with
>>> MS Outlook 2007. :-(
>>>
>>> Any other suggestions would be most welcome, ASAP. I'm needing to do the
>>> transfer in the 1st week of April, so time is getting short!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Jonathan R. Portwood.
>>> Professional Quality Support & Assistance.
>>> Assisting NGO's with IT Services.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote
>>> in message news:CE2DAEC1-0E32-42DC-A0EF-91C21CB88264@microsoft.com...
>>>> Reinstalling Office won't delete any configuration settings or data.
>>>> To answer your questions;
>>>> 1) You can't specifically only save your Outlook account settings
>>>> without a 3rd party tool
>>>> 2) There is indeed no Save My Settings Wizard anymore
>>>> 3) When you backup the pst-file; yes. When you export the pst-file; no.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
>>>> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
>>>>
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
>>>> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.msoutlook.info/
>>>> Real World Questions, Real World Answers
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> "Roee" <Roee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:5076C082-95CB-452E-B202-30E334835538@microsoft.com...
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm re-installing Office Enterprise 2007, how can I export my account
>>>>> setting in Outlook?
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that exporting the PST file is not enough, and I don't have
>>>>> "Save My
>>>>> Settings Wizard" under Office Tools (was that only for Office 2003?).
>>>>>
>>>>> Another question: are the rules also exported when I backup the PST
>>>>> file?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Roee.
>>>>
>>>
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