Just for future reference, I usually enter a task in Outlook with a due date
of 5 days before any trial ends, especially server trials that tend to 180
days. That way I know what I need to do when - I also list what needs to be
done prior to the trial expiring as well.
Upgrading to Office 2003 will allow you access to the .pst files.
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After furious head scratching, MarkL asked:
| Oops!
|
| Thanks for the speedy reply.
|
| I must have missed the warning, the strange thing is that I create
| many .pst files (for individual clients) and I am suprised that I did
| not see the warning and appreciated its impact.
|
| If I upgrade now to 2003, would I be able to access my locked .pst
| files?
|
| I was expecting to stick with 2003 for longer (ie; to upgrade) and
| had to revert ungracefully back to XP when the trial abruptly ended.
| In my view there really should be at elast a 5-day warning to allow
| time for a decision to be made and licence obtained. Like most
| business people I was working to many, many deadlines and with the
| end of the trial just cutting off functionality with no warning I had
| to make the decision to revert and carry it out within an hour. Then
| getting XP Outlook to work again was not a happy excercise.
|
| End result - I will be hesitant to enter into any trials or recommend
| them for any of my client's operational teams.
|
| Many thanks,
|
| Mark
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| When you created your Outlook2003 .pst file, there was a warning
|| that it is not backwards compatible. If you just skipped by it
|| without understanding it, then it is not Microsoft's fault. You can
|| still create a 97-2002 file from the .psts that you have. Roll
|| back one machine a couple of days before the trial expiration and
|| then create the new .pst file, drag and drop from the 2003 .pst to
|| the one you created, then copy that one to use in the rolled back
|| machines.
||
|| As for a warning on the trial "there are seldom technological
|| solutions for behavioral problems."
||
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, MarkL asked:
||
||| I just evaluated Office 2003 for my office colleagues but have hit a
||| major issue when rolling back to our standard XP build. PST files
||| created under 2003 appear to become inacessable on rollback -
||| effectively loosing vast ammounts of e-mail! As a side issue,
||| Outlook still shows the pst files as open, unclosable and
||| inacessable......
|||
||| Another factor is that there is no advance warning of the end of the
||| trial period, or friendly warning that it has expired with 'n' days
||| usage left, just a Bang - office now no longer usable leaving
||| rollback the only first choice.....
|||
||| I am a fan of MS Office, but uses need to be warned of these issues
||| as part of signing up for the trial, or a solution found. Are there
||| other rollback issues I have yet to find.........
