Re: Getting Outlook messages into SBS 2003

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Peter <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

Peter <Peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,

Is there a way to get mailmessages, currently held on a few clients
in Outlook 2003 into a 'generalized' mailbox on a SBS 2003 system.
User is shifting from a workgroup environment (can you tell this is
a small setup??) to a SBS 2003 setup.
He (and a few of his partners/co-workers) currently have quite an
number of business-relevant mail (dispersed) on several systems and
they would like to consolidate this onto the SBS box, into some sort
of 'archive' or 'generalized' mailbox. (For posterity and
back-queries.)
Having it there would (among others) allow them to take advantage of
such things like centralized backup etc.

Your insight and hopefully feasible solution(s) are appreciated.

Best Regards,
Peter

If this is really olders/static data, what about creating a public
folder and subfolders for this stuff, opening the PST file(s) in
Outlook, and copying what they want there?
Or create a user & mailbox, grant permissions to those who want it,
and copy PST file data in *there*. Do *not* use import - always
open, select, copy/paste.



Thanks for your reply.
One more thing.
Why do you say do *not* use import?

Thanks

Because it breaks things. I speak from both personal experience, and a lot
of of interaction with Outlook MVPs....and I've also seen plenty of
newsgroup posts in m.p.outlook.* by people who've gotten corrupt data. Your
mileage may vary, but I don't recommend it.



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