Can I Import MS Exchange .pst Files Into Vista Windows Mail?

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Can I Import MS Exchange .pst Files Into Vista Windows Mail?

Up on Vista. LOVE IT. Wanting to access old Microsoft Exchange .pst
files through Windows Mail. File>import > messages and choose message
type. It says

Message cannot be imported from the MAPI client

Any advice on how to access old mail data through new Windows Mail on
Vista?

Thanks in advance.
 
Outlook needs to be installed. If you don't have it, you can download the
Office demo, install it then do the import into it then into OE.

Office 2007:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101741481033.aspx

I don't know if there is still the Office 2003 around or not now that 2007
is out.










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I have a Vista machine that is already running an official copy of
Office 2007. So good-old "Outlook" is not on my machine. I looked at
the URL you provided above and didn't see a download link for getting
stand-alone old-fashioned Outlook. Can you provide a direct link for
me to download the stand-alone version of Outlook that I would need to
accomplish what you've said above? Thanks in advance!
 
I have a Vista machine that is already running an official copy of
Office 2007. So good-old "Outlook" is not on my machine.
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Replied in outlook group - please crosspost instead of multiposting in
future - otherwise the replies get all fragmented across the groups....
 
I have a Vista machine that is already running an official copy of
Office 2007. So good-old "Outlook" is not on my machine. I looked at
the URL you provided above and didn't see a download link for getting
stand-alone old-fashioned Outlook. Can you provide a direct link for
me to download the stand-alone version of Outlook that I would need to
accomplish what you've said above? Thanks in advance!
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Look again, there is a big Download Now button on the page.
 
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You're either not paying attention or I'm not making myself clear.
OUTLOOK is no longer included with Office starting with the Office
2007 version. It's all Windows Mail now. That's what I was trying to
tell you. I have Office 2007 already installed. OUTLOOK is no longer a
part of that package. I guess you didn't know that?

Any other suggestions?
 
What version of Office 2007 do you have? Outlook 2007 is included in Office
2007 Professional, Professional Plus, and Ultimate.

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You're either not paying attention or I'm not making myself clear.
OUTLOOK is no longer included with Office starting with the Office
2007 version. It's all Windows Mail now. That's what I was trying to
tell you. I have Office 2007 already installed. OUTLOOK is no longer a
part of that package. I guess you didn't know that?
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Outlook 2007 is in the version I have. I don't keep up with the 90 versions
they're offering. In the past, it was with it. If it's not in the demo
either, I can't help that.
Any other suggestions?
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Find a copy of Outlook............
 
Outlook 2007 appears to be included in all Office 2007 Suites, except Home &
Student...

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101635841033.aspx




DGuess said:
You're either not paying attention or I'm not making myself clear.
OUTLOOK is no longer included with Office starting with the Office
2007 version. It's all Windows Mail now. That's what I was trying to
tell you. I have Office 2007 already installed. OUTLOOK is no longer a
part of that package. I guess you didn't know that?
Click to expand...

Outlook 2007 is in the version I have. I don't keep up with the 90
versions they're offering. In the past, it was with it. If it's not in the
demo either, I can't help that.
Any other suggestions?
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Find a copy of Outlook............
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Find a copy of Outlook............
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This is where I've ended up in the other newsgroup. I do want to
(legally, officially) purchase a copy of stand-alone Outlook. I would
like to purchase it online, download, and install. Any suggestions?
 
This is where I've ended up in the other newsgroup. I do want to
(legally, officially) purchase a copy of stand-alone Outlook. I would
like to purchase it online, download, and install. Any suggestions?
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Put it on a friends computer, you can easily switch pst files for the short
run to get the messages into OE.
 
Put it on a friends computer, you can easily switch pst files for the short
run to get the messages into OE.
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Of course, none of the BigBox stores around here have Outlook stand-
alone anymore. But I did find it online at J&R Music World, I've
ordered it, and it will be here Friday. So... I'm all set. I guess I
am left wondering why didn't MS allow for porting of Microsoft
Exchange PST files directly into Windows Mail? I guess the answer
would be that most folks who've upgraded to Vista already have Outlook
running. Well, for those of us who only had Exchange (and again, it's
probably a tiny minority) this really is the only way to do it.
Because File>import > messages> message type MS Exchange, will give
you this: Message cannot be imported from the MAPI client. Yup.

Thanks to all who helped out. And the dude who complained to me about
putting the question in multiple newsgroups - all I can tell you is
that I found 4 places where I could ask the question. 4 separate and
distinct Newgroups where I posted the question. 4 places that I felt
made sense for this question. Got responses in 2. Got to the final
answer right here, in this one. So... maybe you aggregate messages
from multiple newsgroups somehow and this confused you? Don't know
what your complaint was, really, and (actually) I didn't care. I'm
glad that the folks who didn't take the time to "complain" about such
trivialities were actually quite helpful. Again, thanks for your time.
This may help some other person who only has MS Exchange PST files
understand what they have to do to migrate them in Windows Mail on
their Vista machines. Even it helps only ONE other person, I say it
was worth it. And to the Hater-dude: I wish you a life that's filled
with Peace, Joy, and Fulfillment of Purpose. And if that can't happen
for you right at this very minute, know that it IS possible. WAY
possible. Yup.

1by1as1,
Jim Jala*AN
Sedona [VOC], AZ, USA
http://www.the111experience.org [Fully Loaded]
http://www.triple1.org [Generic]
 
I did accomplish what has been suggested, downed a trial version of Office
2007, (some of the beta versions did not inculde outlook, but the current
downloads do), and used the import command to bring the .pst into the outlook
environment. worked without a hitch.

[email protected] said:
Put it on a friends computer, you can easily switch pst files for the short
run to get the messages into OE.
Click to expand...

Of course, none of the BigBox stores around here have Outlook stand-
alone anymore. But I did find it online at J&R Music World, I've
ordered it, and it will be here Friday. So... I'm all set. I guess I
am left wondering why didn't MS allow for porting of Microsoft
Exchange PST files directly into Windows Mail? I guess the answer
would be that most folks who've upgraded to Vista already have Outlook
running. Well, for those of us who only had Exchange (and again, it's
probably a tiny minority) this really is the only way to do it.
Because File>import > messages> message type MS Exchange, will give
you this: Message cannot be imported from the MAPI client. Yup.

Thanks to all who helped out. And the dude who complained to me about
putting the question in multiple newsgroups - all I can tell you is
that I found 4 places where I could ask the question. 4 separate and
distinct Newgroups where I posted the question. 4 places that I felt
made sense for this question. Got responses in 2. Got to the final
answer right here, in this one. So... maybe you aggregate messages
from multiple newsgroups somehow and this confused you? Don't know
what your complaint was, really, and (actually) I didn't care. I'm
glad that the folks who didn't take the time to "complain" about such
trivialities were actually quite helpful. Again, thanks for your time.
This may help some other person who only has MS Exchange PST files
understand what they have to do to migrate them in Windows Mail on
their Vista machines. Even it helps only ONE other person, I say it
was worth it. And to the Hater-dude: I wish you a life that's filled
with Peace, Joy, and Fulfillment of Purpose. And if that can't happen
for you right at this very minute, know that it IS possible. WAY
possible. Yup.

1by1as1,
Jim Jala*AN
Sedona [VOC], AZ, USA
http://www.the111experience.org [Fully Loaded]
http://www.triple1.org [Generic]
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Well, with the changes to Office, there had been a demo of Office 2003.
Still had to have a key they would give you.

Also, Have heard of some borrowing someone else's or even a copy from the
office's Offce, install Outlook only, and not activated it of course. Did
the export from/import to thing and uninstalled it. Accomplished what they
wanted. If they have wanted Office on there they would have left it on or
whatever.

I didn't do the Office 2007 beta so what all they've changed along with the
"this version has this and that version has that" BS, I don't know what the
thinking is behind it all. If Office 2007 is like Vista, then all versions
are on the DVD, you just have to have the upgrade code to get it to install
features.
 
I did accomplish what has been suggested, downed a trial version of Office
2007, (some of the beta versions did not inculde outlook, but the current
downloads do), and used the import command to bring the .pst into the outlook
environment. worked without a hitch.
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Right, but if you followed the whole thread, you will see that I
already had an official copy of Office 2007 loaded on my Vista machine
(and my version doesn't have Outlook). So... I would have had to
uninstall my current version, load the demo, do the x-fer, then
uninstall the demo, and then reload my copy of Office 2007. The easier
solution (for me) was to simply purchase stand-alone Outlook 2007 from
the J&R online site for about 120 clams including shipping. It will be
delivered to my home on Monday. Glad you were able to make use of the
other people's advice, though.

The real question remains: why didn't MS allow for the porting of MS
Exchange messages directly into Windows Mail? And I may have already
answered that - because most of the people doing the porting probably
already had Outlook. But it's still annoying!

Anyway, thanks again to everyone who tried to help.
 
move the complete message store, then start WinMail and a new empty one will
be created that seems to have less problems.

You can drag and drop the old .eml files from Explorer into WinMail (not the
folders via Explorer).
 
Can I Import MS Exchange .pst Files Into Vista Windows Mail?

Up on Vista. LOVE IT. Wanting to access old Microsoft Exchange .pst
files through Windows Mail. File>import > messages and choose message
type. It says

Message cannot be imported from the MAPI client

Any advice on how to access old mail data through new Windows Mail on
Vista?

Thanks in advance.
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Just to tie a bow on this one: I finally got my copy of Outlook 2007
delivered to the home office here earlier in the week and successfully
loaded in all the archived .pst files. I decided I might as well just
leave them there. Since I shelled out all those clams for stand-alone
Outlook. Ha! Maybe I will try Windows Mail at some point down the
road.

Again, thanks for all your help.
 
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