Advice Needed On Change To Exchange Server Based Email

[Dell Boy]

My web hoster offers Exchange email and I am thinking of changing my main
business email address from ordinary POP3 to Exchange hosted so that I can
access all my email messages, contacts, etc from any location.

My hosters tech support people can't seem to explain to me clearly about
what would be involved in doing this but from reading the FAQs on their web
site I believe that I can download some software from their web site that
will create another profile within my Outlook 2007 and that emails to/from my
main business email address will then be received in this profile.

Can anyone help me with these further questions I have:

.. Assuming I have this new profile in my Outlook 2007 and that it has been
made the default profile, how will I send/receive email using my other email
addresses?

.. Will it be possible to copy email messages, contacts, etc from my old
profile in to the new one?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

My web hoster offers Exchange email and I am thinking of changing my main
business email address from ordinary POP3 to Exchange hosted so that I can
access all my email messages, contacts, etc from any location.

Well, perhaps not. You'd need an Exchange client to access it no matter where
you go, unless your service provider has Outlook Wb Access available.

My hosters tech support people can't seem to explain to me clearly about
what would be involved in doing this but from reading the FAQs on their web
site I believe that I can download some software from their web site that
will create another profile within my Outlook 2007 and that emails to/from
my
main business email address will then be received in this profile.

No need to download software. Just configure your Exchange account wiht the
Mail applet in Control Panel. It is conceivable, though, that they have a PRF
file that will configure the profile.

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov // SBS Expert]

My web hoster offers Exchange email and I am thinking of changing my main
business email address from ordinary POP3 to Exchange hosted so that I can
access all my email messages, contacts, etc from any location.

My hosters tech support people can't seem to explain to me clearly about
what would be involved in doing this but from reading the FAQs on their web
site I believe that I can download some software from their web site that
will create another profile within my Outlook 2007 and that emails to/from my
main business email address will then be received in this profile.

Can anyone help me with these further questions I have:

. Assuming I have this new profile in my Outlook 2007 and that it has been
made the default profile, how will I send/receive email using my other email
addresses?

. Will it be possible to copy email messages, contacts, etc from my old
profile in to the new one?

You will enjoy it.

Importing your old messages is very simple.

1. Create the new profile with the Exchange server
2. Set it into cached mode (important)
3. File -> Import the old PST file. It'll sync up to the main Exchange
server eventually.

Poof, you are done.

I was forced to deal with an Exchange-less environment earlier today.
What an extreme headache it is not to have one... They are getting SBSed
next time I am there.

Setting up an Exchange profile in Outlook 2007 is absurdly simple. You
enter an e-mail address, and it auto-configures itself.
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Leonid S. Knyshov
Crashproof Solutions
510-282-1008
Twitter: @wiseleo
http://crashproofsolutions.com
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
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[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Importing your old messages is very simple.

1. Create the new profile with the Exchange server
2. Set it into cached mode (important)
3. File -> Import the old PST file. It'll sync up to the main Exchange
server eventually.

Importing is not the ideal methodology. Data always gets lost in an import.
It's best to open the PST and copy the data in its folders to the mailbox.