Believe it or not, I'm finding that creating the VM is a little easier.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>VMWare makes a nice little utility for making a virtual machine out of a harddrive image. It's called VMware-converter - and it's free.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If the machine is running, just fire up this app and set it up to do its thing using the wizard. The vm gets created.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>We did it once with the full laptop drive, which turned into a performance nightmare because of all the crap he runs - it is a windows laptop afterall, but it booted right away. We decided it would be best to remove some of the startup stuff and then do a reimage. We popped the old harddrive into a new laptop, fired up the os, ran the vmware software, and voila - problem solved.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>BTW - I am very impressed with vmware fusion. If you run a mac, I would recommend you think about it for virtualization needs.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
</div><div>Thanks for all the help guys. As always, whenever I beat my head against a wall, I know someone on this list can usually recommend something.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Brad </div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 7, 2007 1:16 PM, Cyber Source <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
If you can find that *.pst file, you'll save yourself tons of time and agro.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Brad Bartram wrote:<br>> From my research, I've found that Outlook2007 has things thrown all<br>> over the place in various files and registry settings and keys. Right
<br>> now I have two things going on, I've figured out the registry keys<br>> being used, so I'm hacking them into the current system. I'm also<br>> imaging the entire drive for a vmware virtual machine.
<br>><br>> I'll see how these things work.<br>><br>> I'll post a result as something happens so everyone can stop anxiously<br>> holding their breath in anticipation. ;-)<br>><br>> Brad<br>>
<br>> On Dec 7, 2007 12:20 PM, Cyber Source <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a><br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">
peter@thecybersource.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Not sure about the newer versions but Outlook from Office 2000 would<br>> make a backup *.pst file by default. I've used this before. Search<br>> through the old data for *.pst, I believe it will be called
<br>> backup.pst,<br>> import that file and you should have all as it was.<br>><br>> Brad Bartram wrote:<br>> > Hey guys,<br>> ><br>> > First, sorry about the off topic post, but I know there's probably
<br>> > some knowledge on the subject here, so I figured I'd give it a try.<br>> ><br>> > Here's my issue:<br>> ><br>> > A person I work with is using Outlook 2007 for his mail and
<br>> personal<br>> > scheduling and address book and keeping his food cold, etc. He<br>> > recently had his laptop crap out on him. Long story short, we<br>> have a<br>> > new machine for him, but he wants to migrate his old settings
<br>> and such<br>> > from his old harddrive image over to his new machine. He has<br>> all his<br>> > old email in the form of a pst, as well as complete access to<br>> the old<br>
> > drive including the registry.<br>> ><br>> > From my preliminary research, I found that outlook stores account<br>> > information in the registry (go figure). His big concern is the
<br>> email<br>> > filters he has set up to move his mail all around. He has quite a<br>> > complex ruleset and isn't really looking forward to recreating<br>> it from<br>> > scratch - and neither do I, because I sit right next to him and it
<br>> > just won't make my day pleasant.<br>> ><br>> > So does anyone here know where outlook 2007 stores the filter data?<br>> ><br>> > The only thing we don't have access to at this point is a running
<br>> > machine with his native OS and Data on it, we're working from an<br>> > image, so I can't just fire up his old OS and run an export or<br>> > migration application or utility on it.
<br>> ><br>> > Any help would be appreciated.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks<br>> ><br>> > Brad<br>> ><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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