Shenan Stanley said:
What if it works 9 times out of 10? I don't want to look incompetent in
front of my users.
It really does not care too much about the username.
What about SID? Or anything else that changes with usernames? I'm asking
because I've had Outlook forget saved POP3 password when I've made a copy of
user's profile, joined a domain and pointed the profile image path to the new
location. If it can forget saved password when I copy the profile and use it
as somebody else on the same machine how can I be sure it will not alter
other settings? That's why I'm looking for an alternative to copying
profiles, hopefully, one that would be aware of how Office stores it's
settings internally and capable of adjusting them for new enviroment. I was
hoping F.A.S.T might be what I'm looking for.
As far as 'all Outlook settings' - that's left so open - there is no way of
telling you - and even if you closed some of the doors - there's likely no
way of telling you 'for sure'.
Why? It's a microsoft product. I would expect the F.A.S.T development team
to have full access to documentation of how Office stores _all_ its settings
and to be able to migrate all of them. Sure, It's not possible to know if it
will transfer all settings of third party products, but as long as MS
products are concerned it should do it's job. That's how I undersand it, am
I mistaken? I'm asking because I don't want to find out "the hard way".
F.A.S.T. does transfer settings for Office
products. It will grab the PSTs and OSTs and NK2 files... What *version*
of Outlook are you utilizing? What OS (SP level, etc) are you moving from?
Moving to?
In any case - I suggest you utilize the same F.A.S.T. wizard in both cases
(for example - run it from the same CD each time) - this can simplify things
for you.
I intended to save settings using F.A.S.T on machine with Windows XP SP1 and
Office 2000 or XP (it's a mixed network) and restore it on a new machine with
fresh install of Windows XP SP2(using the wizard version from WinXP SP1 CD)
joined to a domain and installed with a matching copy of Office, then I would
upgrade Office to 2003.
Unfortunately my users are not very computer literate and I have to keep
everything working _exactly_ the same(if possible) when I'm installing a new
SBS2003 domain and replacing their PCs with a new ones. I usually spend a lot
of time (sometimes even an hour per PC) to: catch POP3 password's with a
network sniffer, extract ie saved passwords from registry, copy the profile,
tweak any settings, views etc. that were not copied properly. It would save
me a lot of time if this tool was inteligent enough to do the job, but I
can't use my users as guinea pigs so I'm asking here.
Thanks for the quick reply,
