Have a computer running Win2Kpro/ie6 with about 4 years of email in OLE.
Have been doing backup with OLEbackup. Want to switch to XPpro/ie7 and
Outlook 2007. What is the easiest way to move those 1000's of email from the
current environment to the new environment.

Load Outlook 2003 (which I have) onto existing environment and export OLE to
Outlook 2003. Save .pst files to CD and then load those into the new
XPpro/Outlook 2007 environment after new OS is installed.

Backup existing environment with OELbackup. Install new OS and IE7/OEL then
use OELbackup with XPpro (I am not certain if my version 6 of OLE backup
will work with XLpro) to restore files to IE7/OLE then export them to
Outlook 2007.

I will be low level formatting my C drive prior to clean installing XPpro.

Thanks for your suggestions
Howard

Howard wrote:

Have a computer running Win2Kpro/ie6 with about 4 years of email in
OLE. Have been doing backup with OLEbackup. Want to switch to
XPpro/ie7 and Outlook 2007. What is the easiest way to move those
1000's of email from the current environment to the new environment.

Load Outlook 2003 (which I have) onto existing environment and export
OLE to Outlook 2003. Save .pst files to CD and then load those into
the new XPpro/Outlook 2007 environment after new OS is installed.

You could do it that way.

Backup existing environment with OELbackup. Install new OS and
IE7/OEL then use OELbackup with XPpro (I am not certain if my version
6 of OLE backup will work with XLpro) to restore files to IE7/OLE
then export them to Outlook 2007.

That also will work. Don't forget to save the WAB as well as the DBX files.
I don't think either method is better than the other, but I think I'd rpefer
the former. I'd rather work with one PST than multiple DBX and WAB files.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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Howard wrote:

Have a computer running Win2Kpro/ie6 with about 4 years of email in
OLE. Have been doing backup with OLEbackup. Want to switch to
XPpro/ie7 and Outlook 2007. What is the easiest way to move those
1000's of email from the current environment to the new environment.

Load Outlook 2003 (which I have) onto existing environment and export
OLE to Outlook 2003. Save .pst files to CD and then load those into
the new XPpro/Outlook 2007 environment after new OS is installed.

You could do it that way.

Backup existing environment with OELbackup. Install new OS and
IE7/OEL then use OELbackup with XPpro (I am not certain if my version
6 of OLE backup will work with XLpro) to restore files to IE7/OLE
then export them to Outlook 2007.

That also will work. Don't forget to save the WAB as well as the DBX
files. I don't think either method is better than the other, but I think
I'd rpefer the former. I'd rather work with one PST than multiple DBX and
WAB files.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Thanks for your thoughts. I guess (since I am a belts and suspenders type
guy) I will do both. Save DBX and WAB from current installation and also
export to Outlook in current installation and save those PST's. That way I
will have some redundancy if I run into problems.

Howard