Windows Mail Sharing Outlook Contacts

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I am migrating from Office 2000/XP Pro to Office 2007/Vista. I imported my
Outlook and set the imported data files as my default. All worked fine. I
want to be able to have Microsoft Mail share the imported Outlook contacts,
as I've done on my 2000/XP machine. Can this be done? Please tell me how!
As an aside, not having Mail support hotmail is a disappointment!
 
paulp said:
I am migrating from Office 2000/XP Pro to Office 2007/Vista. I imported my
Outlook and set the imported data files as my default. All worked fine.
I
want to be able to have Microsoft Mail share the imported Outlook
contacts,
as I've done on my 2000/XP machine. Can this be done? Please tell me
how!
As an aside, not having Mail support hotmail is a disappointment!
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Can't be done.
 
As can be seen from this "Community", this is going to be a great
inconvenience to many, and to myself its serious enough (for one business I
use Outlook email, and for another business I use OE, and I synch to a Treo)
that I now have to see if I can return this Dell computer and get XP
installed instead of Vista. Why Microsoft would remove the facility for a
single Contacts database shared by its 2 own proprietary email applications
is beyond me, especially when Microsoft's done all that development replacing
OE, thereby encouraging people to use both programs. And why abandon people
that pay for Hotmail by no longer providing any email client that can synch
with Hotmail?

Aside from some search facilities, and no doubt some security improvements,
Vista is more appearance than substance; it is more restrictive and in many
ways has less to offer than XP.

Of course Vista is going to be very hard to avoid. My prediction is that it
is going to aggravate the consumer far more than it is going to impress them.
 
Perhaps I can use Outlook for all my email. I have my Outlook Express
history saved as both .dbx and converted to .eml files, in year and month,
sent and received, folders. Is there a way that I could set up an additional
account in Outlook (which I was using OE for) and keep those saved emails in
an always visible archive that I could click on from the Personal Folders
Menu, the way I do now in OE?

I followed the advice of someone from this Community who advised that I
could use Outlook as a client for my Hotmail. I tried it and I note that the
Hotmail Personal Folder is kept separate and I can just click on it and I
switch from the current account to that. I take it that this new account
would appear and operate the same way, so the issue is all these archives.
 
paulp said:
Perhaps I can use Outlook for all my email. I have my Outlook Express
history saved as both .dbx and converted to .eml files, in year and month,
sent and received, folders. Is there a way that I could set up an
additional
account in Outlook (which I was using OE for) and keep those saved emails
in
an always visible archive that I could click on from the Personal Folders
Menu, the way I do now in OE?

I followed the advice of someone from this Community who advised that I
could use Outlook as a client for my Hotmail. I tried it and I note that
the
Hotmail Personal Folder is kept separate and I can just click on it and I
switch from the current account to that. I take it that this new account
would appear and operate the same way, so the issue is all these archives.
Click to expand...


I don't know anything about Outlook. You'll get more knowledgeable help for
Outlook in an Outlook newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.General
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_AddIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.Program_VBA
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.ThirdPartyUtil
On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us
 
Yes, you can add easily another account to Outlook. To have new email for
this account sent to a specific folder, an email rule should do the trick.
If you wish total separation of the two accounts, setup a second Outlook
Profile (not another data file), and apply this account information to it.
This would give you a completely separate Personal Folders file and the two
accounts would share nothing.

I must also caution you about importing and exporting .PST files; this
should NEVER be done! Importing a .PST is an almost foolproof method of
CORRUPTING your current Outlook Profile, plus you lose the following
information:

1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

The proper way is to re-use the existing .PST file:

http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm

http://www.slipstick.com/config/movepst.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx
Reconnect your old Outlook data file

Hal

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