Comments on: Importing and Exporting Mail and User Accounts in Outlook 2007

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:26:24 +0000

Re asterisk key / unmask-password … seems it’s a bit more complex….Using Win 7, I could get asterisk key to work with Outlook 2010; and with IE 9, but not with Chrome. unmask-password worked with Outlook, but not with any auto-complete password entry on Chrome or IE.

By: VISHAL

VISHAL — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:30:21 +0000

IT WAS A GOOD HELP AND I RECOVERED MY OUTLOOK PASSWORD FROM
Asterisk Key.

THANKS

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:59:12 +0000

Hey Man great post… exactly as advertised!

By: Thanks

Thanks — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:08:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing your process.

Problem, your suggested Password recovery app has not worked under Win7/Outlook 2007.

I could found one, which is working perfectly:
http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Unmask-Password-Show-Reveal-Stars.html

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:06:28 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Thanks so much for this walk through it seems to work incredibly, and I thought it would until I started to import my accounts, in the registry all I see is a bunch of giberish, I can’t seem to find the correct “keys” if that is what you are referring to.

I see a bunch of the following under the outlook folfer in profile:
09ff77c182814e4d9fd8cf774eadf346
0b458d50bab5db49acad7faec57ffd2e
5da214670771974d90559e24583ed0dd

Etc. How do I know which ones go to which accounts, because when I open outlook it asks me to put in the account info for each like

SN2PRD0102.mailbox.outlook.com
username:
password:

Thanks for your help. I probably missed something simple =P

By: SteveH

SteveH — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:03:08 +0000

Well, you learn something new every day

I eventually got it working, there was no conversion to take over or anything like that. What I did notice was that you only appear to get to specify the file location once, otherwise when double clicking the data file you cannot edit the location (PST you can, OST not so fortunate). I couldn’t find any PST on laptop so after figuring out how I could change the path for that OST it worked.

By: Jeff Knapp

Jeff Knapp — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:45:09 +0000

An OST is NOT a PST file. An OST file is created by Outlook (most any version, not 2010 exclusively) when it is connected to an Exchange server. You shouldn’t have to do anything to move that user account. It’s often easier when working with Exchange t just reconnect it to the exchange box (there can be only one) and put in the server name and username and be done. The OST file will be recreated when the user reconnects to the Exchange store.

The only time this isn’t the case is when the Exchange store has been corrupted or otherwise unable to be reconnected to. Ten you’ll need to run a recovery on the OST file. There are commercial tools to convert an OST file to a PST. There’s talk you can also rename the OST file to a PST and run ScanPST on it and that’ll make it into a PST file, but I haven’t tried that.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:24:45 +0000

Hi, great article, having a few problems though.

I’m trying to do 2010 to 2010 – the files are ost than pst. Going to try a conversion now to see if that does the job.

Outlook is saying cannot configure my .ost file – at first this was because I have a different username on laptop vs. PC so I renamed my PC account to match. This meant the data file path now existed (tried to find out where I could edit this in the imported reg file but to no avail).

By: convert ost pst file

convert ost pst file — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:50:43 +0000

Outlook PST file contains all mailbox data of a user and exporting PST files can migrate Outlook users from one version to another.

By: SteveY

SteveY — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0000

Rules had in fact been moved but were marked (for other machine) weren’t running.

However I did find that you can export the rules from the old machine as a .rwz file for importing into the new setup