Move specific folders to different Email User /account - not share

[JB]

User "A" maintains 2 personal folders and places Emails manually in them
depending on subject matter. User "B" is taking over this responsibility.
User "A" wants to retain historical content while User "B" will take over in
this role. All contents of two folders from User "A" need to be moved /
transferred over to User "B" outlook folder. Is there a way to move the
content of these two folders over to another user. Outlook / Office 2007 -
both users in same company on same domain

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Do you have an Exchange server?

If not, copy those folders to a new .PST file and then open that .PST file
on B's computer and copy the folders to his .PST (or just work from the
copied PST for those folders).

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.html
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon

User "A" maintains 2 personal folders and places Emails manually in them
depending on subject matter. User "B" is taking over this responsibility.
User "A" wants to retain historical content while User "B" will take over
in
this role. All contents of two folders from User "A" need to be moved /
transferred over to User "B" outlook folder. Is there a way to move the
content of these two folders over to another user. Outlook / Office
2007 -
both users in same company on same domain

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[JB]

Yes, we use an Exchange 2007 Server. Did not realize you could archive /
backup individual folders but makes sense if you can. Why the Exchange
Server question please ??

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

If you have an Exchange server then you have more options.

For example you could give User B permissions to those folders in A's
mailbox. You could either leave them as is and have them both use those
folders, or you could have B create new folders and copy the existing
messages from A's folders into those new folders.

Of course you can still do the PST trick, just with an Exchange server B
would want to copy from the PST file to his mailbox.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.html
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon

Yes, we use an Exchange 2007 Server. Did not realize you could archive /
backup individual folders but makes sense if you can. Why the Exchange
Server question please ??

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[JB]

First off - thanks for the help. I'll probably go with the new PST file
option although your last response makes me curious ( am new to Exchange due
to staff changes, and have full permissions). Anyhow, you said "B" would
create new folders and have "A"' content moved over to them. How is this
done exactly and how does this relate to using the Exchange Server. I don't
see any options to work with individual folders / content in their Exchange
accounts. Thanks !!

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

If User A right-clicks those folders and chooses Properties they should be
able to give User B read permissions on them. Then B can go to File | Open
| Other User's Folder and open those folders in their own Outlook. From
there B could copy (not move) the existing items into new folders of their
own.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.html
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon