I just started evaluating Office 2007 to see what changes there are to
motivate a deployment and what issues there may be.

(I must say I have been somewhat impressed by the "Ribbon" interface
thing, and it does appear and sound convenient, but takes time to get
used to after so long with things in their expected places)

Anyway, trying to see if it is feasible this time to use Outlook 2007
with IMAP, I resumed with an account that was created in the past in
Outlook XP and then in Outlook 2003.

First thing was, I heard that Outlook 2007 should support Unicode data
files for IMAP (meaning Unicode plain-text messages in IMAP).

I wanted to try that, but apparently the data file for that account
remained in its original (ANSI) Outlook 2002 format - why didn't it
didn't it offer to convert it? It turned out that there is no built in
option to convert the data file, but with the instructions in help, I
tried creating a new data file and importing all mail to there. This
all went great, except that I couldn't find a way to change the account
setting to use the new data file I created.

Never mind then, I just created a new account - in IMAP everything's on
the server anyway. Except one thing: It is neccessary here that the
Outlook data file will not be stored on the local disk or in the roaming
profile (which is synchronized every time on log out and log in), but on
the user's home directory in a network share. So I wanted to go the
same way as I did it last time to move the data file to a network share
(mapped to a drive letter), using the instructions at:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...124801033.aspx

However it appears that those instructions do not work in Outlook 2007.
Instead of asking me for a location of the new data file when the one
set was moved, it simply creates a new one in the old location. Which
is not a problem for mail on IMAP since the data file is used only as a
cache anyway. But I just couldn't find how to move the file and get the
account to use a file in another location.

Any advice?

Regards,
-- Tom

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Tom Alsberg - certified insane, complete illiterate.
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