Migration Outlook XP shortcuts to Outlook 2007

[Jeff]

Good day all.

Our company is currently using Office XP including Outlook. Last year we attempted to move to Outlook 2003; however we hit a major brick wall. We use Public folders heavily; as in around 25,000 public folders currently. Due to the complexity of the folder structure, users over time have created shortcuts to every day folders in the Shortcut bar under Outlook 2000/XP. Unforunately, when we attempted the move to 2003, we learned quickly that these shortcuts did not migrate over, so we had to pull back from that migration. Now that Outlook 2007 is out, we looked into again and it seems the same problem still exist.

Is there some tool, 3rd party application (free or paid for), process I am missing, whatever, that would import these items. While users could recreate their shortcuts, some users have well over 100 shortcuts (organized by groups under XP) that they would not be so pleased to recreate.

Thank you for any advice,

 

[Roady [MVP]]

They should migrate over to the Shortcuts Navigation when the user launches
Outlook 2007 for the first time after the upgrade.

 

[Jeff]

I checked, but nothing there. The migration wizard did run when I first started Outlook 2007 though.

 

[Jeff]

Did people not use the favorite pane in Outlook 2000? I am surprised that I cannot find any solution to this problem. Please advise.

Thank you

 

[Jeremy]

Not sure if this would work from Outlook XP, but we are migrating from 2003
to 2007, we used a script that copies the users shortcuts and commonly typed
emails from their 2003 profile to their 2007 profile. Just rename the NK2
and XML files to the new 2007 profile name.

C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\<2003ProfileName>.NK2

and

C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\<2003ProfileName>.XML

Worked for us with users on both laptops and our Citrix environment.

They should migrate over to the Shortcuts Navigation when the user launches
Outlook 2007 for the first time after the upgrade.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Good day all.

Our company is currently using Office XP including Outlook. Last year we
attempted to move to Outlook 2003; however we hit a major brick wall. We
use Public folders heavily; as in around 25,000 public folders currently.
Due to the complexity of the folder structure, users over time have
created shortcuts to every day folders in the Shortcut bar under Outlook
2000/XP. Unforunately, when we attempted the move to 2003, we learned
quickly that these shortcuts did not migrate over, so we had to pull back
from that migration. Now that Outlook 2007 is out, we looked into again
and it seems the same problem still exist.

Is there some tool, 3rd party application (free or paid for), process I am
missing, whatever, that would import these items. While users could
recreate their shortcuts, some users have well over 100 shortcuts
(organized by groups under XP) that they would not be so pleased to
recreate.

Thank you for any advice,