Outlook 2007 + Vista + Imported user profile

[TFontaine]

Hi Everyone,
I figured I'd document my recent experience with importing my user profile
into Vista which contained my Outlook 2007 profiles. Everything worked fine
as far as I can tell, except for the fact I was unable to use my signatures,
they didn't show up in the signature list. So, I tracked down the signature
folder (c:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signature) and found out I
didn't have full permissions on the folder, so Outlook was being locked out
of it. So I changed the permissions and Voila! I could see my signatures
again and they worked as if nothing had happened.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Interesting. How did you import your user profile? Did you try running
Outlook as an administrator?

 

[TFontaine]

Hi Russ,

I imported my user profile using the Windows Easy Transfer tool. No, I
hadn't tried running Outlook as administrator since I had previously had some
problems with a bad upgrade to Vista, I resolved my problems by doing a
format and re-install. So when everything worked but my Signatures in
Outlook I tried to create a new signature and it spat out a write permission
error. So I tracked down the folder where the signatures are stored and I
was unable to open it. So I checked its permissions and discovered I didn't
have read and execute permission, Modify permission or List Folder Contents
permissions (administrator did of course). Once I enabled those, everything
worked.

Interesting. How did you import your user profile? Did you try running
Outlook as an administrator?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Hi Everyone,
I figured I'd document my recent experience with importing my user profile
into Vista which contained my Outlook 2007 profiles. Everything worked
fine
as far as I can tell, except for the fact I was unable to use my
signatures,
they didn't show up in the signature list. So, I tracked down the
signature
folder (c:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signature) and found out I
didn't have full permissions on the folder, so Outlook was being locked
out
of it. So I changed the permissions and Voila! I could see my signatures
again and they worked as if nothing had happened.