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By Drew Nicholson, dnicholson@OutlookExchange.com

Importing PABs
So, you've made the move from Outlook 9x to Outlook 2000, and your users want to be able to get at the Personal Address book that they've spent the last decade building.

Rather than have them simply access the PAB directly, have them move all their contacts into the CONTACTS folder.

From within Outlook 2000, try File/Import and Export /Import From Another Program or File/Personal Address Book/ then follow the prompts from there.

Now you have accomplished three things -- your users have their contacts, you don't have to worry about backing up another file, and you're one step closer to getting rid of PSTs! (PST=BAD!)

Disabling Display Names to the Internet To disable sending display names to the internet, do the following through Exchange administrator:

IMS Properties->Internet Mail->Advanced, check the Disable sending Display names to the Internet

When I move Mailboxes, do I need to Change the Outlook Profile? No, with the following caveat: If the server is part of the same site and organization, MAPI will change the profile for you -- IF you used the MOVE MAILBOX wizard in the Exchange Administrator app, and IF the original server remains online until everyone has logged in to Exchange.

This is how it works:

1. The client connects to the old server and requests the mailbox

2. The old server tells the client that the mailbox is on the new server

3. The client updates the server entry in the client's registry and requests the mailbox from the new server

4. Subsequent logons from that client go directly to the new server.

Public Folder Age Limits You've gone ahead and set limits on a public folder to delete items older than a certain date. But when you go into that folder, you see plenty of items that have dates from before the cut-off. Why aren't those items deleted?

The reason these items are still present is that they were MODIFIED more recently than the cutoff date. The Age Limit works the same way the AutoArchive engine does -- it uses the LAST MODIFIED date for Age Limits, rather than the CREATED date.

When does the LAST MODIFIED DATE change? When you modiy the file -- move it from one folder to another, add or remove data, change the name, etc.

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