Microsoft Outlook and News Groups

[David Park]

orOn my 7 year old computer with Windows98 and Microsoft Outlook (2000 I
think) I could view news groups and news servers.

With Vista and Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 and Outlook I can no
longer do this. When I bought my Dell computer and they put on Office 2007,
they appear to have taken off Outlook Express, which I guess does allow new
groups to be set up.

How do I get back to my old style news reader without having to joing Google
or buying Outlook Express?

 

[Don MI]

orOn my 7 year old computer with Windows98 and Microsoft Outlook (2000 I
think) I could view news groups and news servers.

With Vista and Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 and Outlook I can no
longer do this. When I bought my Dell computer and they put on Office
2007,
they appear to have taken off Outlook Express, which I guess does allow
new
groups to be set up.

How do I get back to my old style news reader without having to joing
Google
or buying Outlook Express?

In Windows 98, you used Outlook Express to view newsgroups. If you viewed
newsgroups from Outlook {which does not support new reader function},
Outlook started Outlook Express in a news only mode to view newsgroups.

In Vista, Outlook Express has been replaced by Windows Mail. While I do not
have Vista, I suspect you need to use Windows Mail for newsgroups.

Don

 

[David Park]

Ah! WindowsMail! I have that and will try it out.

Many thanks for that answer.

 

[kermor]

Hello,

I) I have two simple questions:

1) How to backup my .pst doc on my desktop or an external back up?

2) How to import this exactly same back onto outlook 2007.

Could you please explain to me the step-by-step, thank you?
Kermor

 

[Gordon]

Hello,

I) I have two simple questions:

1) How to backup my .pst doc on my desktop or an external back up?

very simply - close outlook and copy your pst file.

2) How to import this exactly same back onto outlook 2007.

very simply - you don't. Do NOT use the import/export function to transfer
data between different installations of Outlook.
Why not?
(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

take a look here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010771141033.aspx

more info here:

http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm




HTH

 

[kermor]

Thank you Gordon,

Question: where is my PST doc ... I do not really know where that is on
Vista.
The reason on my two questions is I want to import that PST doc onto another
laptop of mine.
It would be nice to set up my pst doc on some kind of automatic back up
mode inside my briefcase, very time I hookup my external backup up

--
brittany

Hello,

I) I have two simple questions:

1) How to backup my .pst doc on my desktop or an external back up?

very simply - close outlook and copy your pst file.

2) How to import this exactly same back onto outlook 2007.

very simply - you don't. Do NOT use the import/export function to transfer
data between different installations of Outlook.
Why not?
(Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook])

Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost
PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose:
1. Custom Forms
2. Custom Views
3. Connections between contacts and activities
4. Received dates on mail
5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar
6. Journal connections
7. Distribution Lists

Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise
people to import a native file into Outlook.

take a look here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA010771141033.aspx

more info here:

http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm




HTH

Could you please explain to me the step-by-step, thank you?
Kermor

 

[Gordon]

Thank you Gordon,

Question: where is my PST doc ... I do not really know where that is on
Vista.

Nor do I! if you open Outlook, right-click on "Personal Folders", choose
properties and click on Advanced you will see the path to the pst file.

The reason on my two questions is I want to import that PST doc onto
another
laptop of mine.

As I postsed - do NOT use the import/export function. Copy the pst file to
the HDD on the laptop, do NOT overwrite any existing pst file, then in
Outlook do File-open-Outlook Data file.