Re: Move Outlook Emails to a new PC

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lukas - what application settings are migrated? Thanks...

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Lukas Beeler <
lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 17:21, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Outlook on the other hand ... I've used all of the methods noted by
> > others here and have never been completely happy with the results.
>
> Export is the wrong approach, simple as that.
>
> Look in %APPDATA%\..\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. There should be a .pst.
> Copy this to the new machine. Done.
>
> USMT/WET can do that for you, and will also migrate application
> setting. The .pst is just the data store.
>
> By the way, using Outlook with .psts is a bad idea. If you use
> Outlook, you should connect it to an Exchange server.
>
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