Tag: Upgrading Outlook
Understanding Outlook Profiles & Account Settings
All critical Outlook information as it pertains to email accounts and data files is stored in an Outlook profile. Any number of Outlook profiles can be created but only one can be designated as the “default” profile to be used when Outlook is opened. If your environment is such where different configurations need to be […]
Understanding Outlook Migration – Part 2 – Data Files
Something that can save a lot of time and potentially avoid a great deal of aggravation by virtue of suddenly realizing that you have suffered permanent data loss when migrating Outlook data from one system to another is to understand What data you need to save (have a copy of – backed up) AND Where […]
Understanding Outlook Migration – Part 3 – Email Account Creation
The primary purpose of this article is to highlight the differences that occur depending on what sequence new email accounts are added to an Outlook profile particularly in the area of what data files are created and default folders will be included – specifically in terms of contacts/calendar. If the accounts are created in a […]
Understanding Outlook Migration – Part 1 – Settings
The most common area of frustration for people migrating to a new installation of Outlook is remembering the settings for existing email accounts especially if it’s something that hasn’t been done in a very, very long time. This doesn’t apply if you are upgrading from to a newer version of Outlook (MS Office) on a […]
Understanding 32bit versus 64bit Office/Outlook choices
Microsoft Office ‘2010 and ‘2013 comes in 2 bit flavours – 32bit and 64bit. Many think that the 64bit version is automatically a better version to have when in fact, from a functional basis, the vast majority of people do not require the one major advantage that the 64 bit Office suite provides which is […]
