
Originally Posted by
ibm
Microsoft Outlook...I've backed up all the emails,contacts, and hopefully calender settings etc through exporting to .pst personal folder files.
How do you backup all the POP3 connection settings? I've got about 20 email accounts running in outlook and really don't want to have to set each and every one of them up again.
to quote someone else:
Exporting a .pst file doesn't save the email account settings and the workaround from MS is only useful for importing from another program. (not backing up ones that you only have in Office 2003).
However...
I did find a solution, which I'm surprised that MS doesn't document more obviously.
There's a "Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard" in the "Microsoft Office Tools". That will allow you to 'save' and 'restore' all Office settings to and from a file. I tried it and it works fine for backing up email account settings.
The only disadvantage is that the accounts can't be saved separately. It saves all of them in one file (as well as any other Office settings, I guess). So you'd want to be careful that you're not overwriting recent changes when you use a previously backed up file.
I don't know whether this works with Office XP or not.
haven't given it a bash myself, but makes sense to this Jack