Migrate from Outlook 2001 to Entourage 2004

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Kendall, Scott

Hello all,

We recently switched our Exchange server from v5.5 to 2003, which means our
Mac users can finally get rid of Outlook 2001 and go to Entourage 2004 (last
OS 9 problem left in our building!). Here is the problem that I am having:

The groups (Distribution Lists) that the users created in the Outlook 2001
Contacts folder don't migrate over to Exchange 2004. The individual contact
names migrate just fine, but the groups didn't make it. Now, some users
have 30+ people in their old Distribution Lists (Outlook 2001) and I don't
really want to have to manually re-create the groups in Entourage. Does
anybody have any ideas on how I can migrate the old Distribution Lists in
Outlook 2001 into Groups on Entourage 2004?

Thanks in advance for any help...

Scott Kendall
Macintosh Support
Ohio Department of Education
 
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Paul Berkowitz

We recently switched our Exchange server from v5.5 to 2003, which means our
Mac users can finally get rid of Outlook 2001 and go to Entourage 2004 (last
OS 9 problem left in our building!). Here is the problem that I am having:

The groups (Distribution Lists) that the users created in the Outlook 2001
Contacts folder don't migrate over to Exchange 2004. The individual contact
names migrate just fine, but the groups didn't make it. Now, some users
have 30+ people in their old Distribution Lists (Outlook 2001) and I don't
really want to have to manually re-create the groups in Entourage. Does
anybody have any ideas on how I can migrate the old Distribution Lists in
Outlook 2001 into Groups on Entourage 2004?
Click to expand...

You can assign a category of the same name as the distribution group(s) to
every member of the group, in Outlook. (No really simple way, but you can
open the group, select all, and assign the category, I think). Save the
Contacts as a .pst, and bring the .pst over to Outlook Windows on a
friend's PC - get the friend to make a temporary Outlook Profile for you.
Then export all your contacts (Contacts folder) from this Outlook profile as
CSV file. Bring (by CD) the CSV file over to your Mac, and delete file and
profile from the PC. Using my shareware scripts "Export-Import Entourage X"
.. convert the .csv to .txt and import it into Entourage using "Import
Script". It will create and apply the same categories to the contacts as
they had in Outlook. Then get and run my free Category Groups X script on
all those categories: it will create groups of the same name.

The scripts are all available at

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>



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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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