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Old January 16th 06, 12:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Bernhard
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Default Whats the best way to migrate User-Profiles and Settings to new PC

Hi,

could anybody tell me whats the easiest way to migrate Outlook-Profiles
from one Win2000 oder WinXP-PC to a new installed Windows XP-Machine,
WITH transferring the main Windows-Mail-Profil, the Outlook-Signatures and
Outlook-Autocomplete-Adresses ? (Office 2003).

Regards,

Bernhard

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Old January 16th 06, 01:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
neo [mvp outlook]
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Default Whats the best way to migrate User-Profiles and Settings to new PC

Assuming its Windows 2000/Office 2003 to Windows XP/Office 2003, you can use
2 different tools to migrate a users entire profile. These tools a

1) File and Settings Transfer Wizard (comes with XP)
2) Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings

You should probably take a peek at the OPW11USR.INI file that the Save My
Settings wizard uses since it does exclude backing up some file types (PST,
OST, PAB).


"Bernhard" wrote in message
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Hi,

could anybody tell me whats the easiest way to migrate Outlook-Profiles
from one Win2000 oder WinXP-PC to a new installed Windows XP-Machine,
WITH transferring the main Windows-Mail-Profil, the Outlook-Signatures and
Outlook-Autocomplete-Adresses ? (Office 2003).

Regards,

Bernhard



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Old January 16th 06, 05:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Brian Tillman
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Default Whats the best way to migrate User-Profiles and Settings to new PC

Bernhard wrote:

could anybody tell me whats the easiest way to migrate
Outlook-Profiles from one Win2000 oder WinXP-PC to a new installed
Windows XP-Machine, WITH transferring the main Windows-Mail-Profil,
the Outlook-Signatures and Outlook-Autocomplete-Adresses ? (Office
2003).


I wouldn't bother to transfer the mail profile (it's in the registry), since
it's so easy to recreate it manually and creating a new one is less prone to
errors.

See this for PST migration help:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

For the Signatures, transfer the contents of %AppData%\Microsoft\Signatures.
To transfer the autocompletion cache, transfer the file {yourpfofile}.NK2 in
%AppData%\Microsoft\Outlook. On the new machine, after creating your mail
profile and with Outlook closed, rename this file to match the name of your
mail profile there.
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Brian Tillman

 




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