Hi all. I’ve been trying to find a way to [easily] backup all files and settings for a user in Outlook 2007 and can’t seem to find a product or function that fully does this.
By “all files”, I mean any PST’s they have (Outlook.pst, username.pst, archive.pst, etc.). The hard part is the settings. By settings, I mean:
– Signature file(s)
– All mail server settings (server names, user login/passwords etc, port and security options, and so on).
– TO: field history – in a non-Exchange environment – and let’s pretend your Contacts folder is empty – Outlook remembers the addresses you’ve previously used so when you start typing their name it’ll auto-fill in the rest. This is’t a feature of Contacts because when I restore a user’s PST (woth Contacts contained within) to a new PC I don’t get the TO: field history. So this info must be stored someplace else I guess.
– If somebody were to cofigure Outlook to use digital signatures, certificates or vCards and pretty much any other setting that might have been changed from Outlook defaults, is there a way to back this up so it can be restores, without me having to go screen-by-screen in Outlook writing down or screenshoting every configuration option?
So far I’ve confirmed that copying the PST’s alone isn’t enough. Also, using Outlooks Export/Import features doesn’t do it either, I still have to effectively completely re-configure Outlook on the new PC to match the settings on the old one.
And again, this is for non-Exchange environments and also most of my users are using Outlook 2007 with POP3/SMTP to an ISP’s email server.
Thanks anybody!
