Migrate from Outlook 2002 to Vista???

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Sven Pran - 12 Mar 2008 21:14 GMT

I have defined my mail account(s) on my new Vista machine and want
to migrate all the mail folders with their contents, contacts, calendar
information and mail rules from my existing Outlook 2002 on XP to
this new machine.

But I can't find out how to do it?

I have successfully created a backup .pst file, but there seems no
way I can get Vista mail client to process that file or even access it.

I did find a note on how to migrate contacts using a CSV-file, but
the resulting contacts folder on my Vista machine was a disaster.

I shall very much appreciate any suggestion.

I can always recreate my contacts, the mail folders organisation
and the mail rules manually, but I had really expected a more direct
and userfriendly way to migrate?

regards Sven

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 12 Mar 2008 21:35 GMT

Are you saying you are now using Windows Mail instead of Outlook? If so, you
have a Windows Mail question. Windows Mail has nothing whatsoever to do with
Outlook and there is no way Windows Mail could use your PST file.

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>I have defined my mail account(s) on my new Vista machine and want
> to migrate all the mail folders with their contents, contacts, calendar
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> regards Sven

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Sven Pran - 12 Mar 2008 23:38 GMT

I was unaware that Windows Mail is an entirely different product.

But I searched around and finally discovered that one way of migrating
is to install Outlook 2007 (test version temporarily) and then process
the pst file. When I pursued this suggestion I discovered that i had no
need for installing Outlook 2007; I already have Office 2007 PRO on
my system!

So now I have Outlook 2007 working and doing (almost) what i want
(please see below) but I shall probably still need Windows mail for
news servers? I suppose I can live with that?

But I am not very happy with the screen layout in Outlook 2007 where the
list of messages and the text of selected message are placed in frames
side by side instead of one above the other. The result is that both the
list
and the message text is unsatisfactory narrow.

Comments on this?

regards Sven

> Are you saying you are now using Windows Mail instead of Outlook? If so,
> you have a Windows Mail question. Windows Mail has nothing whatsoever to
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>> regards Sven

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 13 Mar 2008 01:58 GMT

Comments on what? You want me to change Outlook 2007's layout? Why can't you
do that?

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Russ Valentine
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>I was unaware that Windows Mail is an entirely different product.
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>>> regards Sven

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Brian Tillman - 13 Mar 2008 14:50 GMT

> I was unaware that Windows Mail is an entirely different product.

WIndows Mail is the next version of Outlook Express.

> But I searched around and finally discovered that one way of migrating
> is to install Outlook 2007 (test version temporarily) and then process
> the pst file. When I pursued this suggestion I discovered that i had
> no need for installing Outlook 2007; I already have Office 2007 PRO on
> my system!

It's probably a trial version. PC vendors usually do not include non-trial
versions of Office.

> So now I have Outlook 2007 working and doing (almost) what i want
> (please see below) but I shall probably still need Windows mail for
> news servers? I suppose I can live with that?

Correct. Just as Outlook Express is the newsreader on WIndows XP and
earlier, WIndows Mail is the newsreader on Vista.

> But I am not very happy with the screen layout in Outlook 2007 where
> the list of messages and the text of selected message are placed in
> frames side by side instead of one above the other. The result is
> that both the list
> and the message text is unsatisfactory narrow.

So, click View>Reading Pane>Bottom if you want it arranged like OL 2002.

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Sven Pran - 13 Mar 2008 23:53 GMT

>> I was unaware that Windows Mail is an entirely different product.
>
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> It's probably a trial version. PC vendors usually do not include
> non-trial versions of Office.

Oh no, I ordered Office PRO with my machine because I need Access (in
addition to Word and Excel), but I had (temporarily) forgotten that outlook
is part of the office package.

>> So now I have Outlook 2007 working and doing (almost) what i want
>> (please see below) but I shall probably still need Windows mail for
>> news servers? I suppose I can live with that?
>
> Correct. Just as Outlook Express is the newsreader on WIndows XP and
> earlier, WIndows Mail is the newsreader on Vista.

Thanks, that clarifies things.

What I have left to do now is to enter all my mail rules, the rest seems to
having been migrated OK.

>> But I am not very happy with the screen layout in Outlook 2007 where
>> the list of messages and the text of selected message are placed in
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>
> So, click View>Reading Pane>Bottom if you want it arranged like OL 2002.

AHA! So that is how to do it. Thanks!

and regards, Sven

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Brian Tillman - 14 Mar 2008 18:46 GMT

> Oh no, I ordered Office PRO with my machine because I need Access (in
> addition to Word and Excel), but I had (temporarily) forgotten that
> outlook is part of the office package.

I see.

> What I have left to do now is to enter all my mail rules, the rest
> seems to having been migrated OK.

Use the Rules Wizard Export feature on the old PC. Transfer the .RWZ file
and import on the new PC.

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