You'll need to copy the *.PST used for calendar and contacts to the new computer. If you have an IMAP account in Outlook 2010 or older, you'll have email in one PST file and a separate *.PST file for Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes. The PST file contains your POP3 email, calendar, and contacts. If you need to recover pst files from a hard drive removed from a crashed computer, see Recover Outlook Data Files from a Crashed Computer It's not necessary to move data files used for IMAP email,, or Exchange mailbox as the mail (and calendar and contacts for and Exchange) are stored on the mail server. If you use POP3 or have archives or local PST files in your profile, you'll need to move them to the new computer. Your accounts are stored in the registry and need to be recreated on the new computer.You can only move user data, not the program itself.
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You need to install Office (or Outlook) on the new computer.If you use Outlook 2013 or newer on the old computer and have Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks folders labeled 'this computer only', expert the folders to a CSV.For Exchange, it will also sync calendar, contacts, and tasks.
When you use IMAP or Exchange (including ), Outlook will need to resync the mail.You really only need to move the PST (Outlook Data File) and create a new profile using this PST, the other files Outlook uses are created as you use Outlook.Things to keep in mind when you are preparing the new computer: By default Outlook 2010 and up automatically leave POP3 mail on the server for 14 days. Step 7: Signatures & Stationery (and custom dictionary)ĭo you leave mail on the POP3 server? See this section.Step 1: Get the files from old computer.If you want to use POP3, you'll need to choose the option to change settings. The same applies to IMAP accounts, however, IMAP is email-only.īy default, if your mail server supports IMAP, Outlook will create an IMAP account.
If you use Exchange accounts (including ), you only need to move archive PST files everything in the mailbox will sync down to the account on the new computer.
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