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Ben Borofka
Not sure if this has been discussed here before or not.
I'm in the process of upgrading dozens of faculty and staff of our
University from Outlook 2001 to Entourage 2004 with new iMacs. The
process usually involves importing their PST mail and contacts with
Microsoft's PST Import Tool.
While I have other issues with the Import Tool (it freezes when
importing Mail sometimes), the most frustrating thing by far is the
fact that it will not import Distributions Lists. This would be fine if
Entourage would just recognize them on the Exchange server, but it is
of course, too dumb. So, thanks to the excellent design decisions of
the Microsoft MBU, there is no way for me to move Distributions Lists
from Outlooks 2001 to Entourage 2004. This forces me to leave some
users on Outlook, because they're DLs are way too big and important to
be without, and of course they don't want to spend wasted time
recreating the DL in Entourage as a "Group" manually.
Is there any hack, workaround, or anything that will let me move DLs in
Outlook to Address Groups in Entourage? I've tried everything. I try
exporting the contacts in Outlook to a CSV (to be imported into
Entourage), and the DLs are omitted. I've tried dragging a DL to the
Desktop from the Outlook window, but nothing will recognize it except
Outlook. I've tried some AppleScripts I found on the web with no luck.
The PST Import Tool won't move it. I've even resorted to recreating DLs
for some users.
Has anyone found any other way to solve this problem? I find it pretty
rediculous that I can't do something as simple as move a DL from
Outlook to Entourage. Is anyone else in the same boat?
I'm in the process of upgrading dozens of faculty and staff of our
University from Outlook 2001 to Entourage 2004 with new iMacs. The
process usually involves importing their PST mail and contacts with
Microsoft's PST Import Tool.
While I have other issues with the Import Tool (it freezes when
importing Mail sometimes), the most frustrating thing by far is the
fact that it will not import Distributions Lists. This would be fine if
Entourage would just recognize them on the Exchange server, but it is
of course, too dumb. So, thanks to the excellent design decisions of
the Microsoft MBU, there is no way for me to move Distributions Lists
from Outlooks 2001 to Entourage 2004. This forces me to leave some
users on Outlook, because they're DLs are way too big and important to
be without, and of course they don't want to spend wasted time
recreating the DL in Entourage as a "Group" manually.
Is there any hack, workaround, or anything that will let me move DLs in
Outlook to Address Groups in Entourage? I've tried everything. I try
exporting the contacts in Outlook to a CSV (to be imported into
Entourage), and the DLs are omitted. I've tried dragging a DL to the
Desktop from the Outlook window, but nothing will recognize it except
Outlook. I've tried some AppleScripts I found on the web with no luck.
The PST Import Tool won't move it. I've even resorted to recreating DLs
for some users.
Has anyone found any other way to solve this problem? I find it pretty
rediculous that I can't do something as simple as move a DL from
Outlook to Entourage. Is anyone else in the same boat?