Creating a PST in Outlook 2010

The Credit of the this post goes to: The Sean Blog

Here is the step-by-step guide to create a PST file in Outlook 2010. It’s pretty much the same as in Outlook 2007.

In the top left of Outlook, click on “File”.

Click on the Account Settings drop down, and then click “Account Settings…”

In the window that pops up, click the second tab “Data Files”

Click on the “Add…” icon, and then give your PST file a name (they call it “Outlook Data File, which makes much more sense to end users), choose where it goes, and then hit “OK”.  By default in Windows 7, it goes into your My Documents folder into a folder called “Outlook Files”.

I’m not sure what Outlook 2010 does on earlier versions of Windows, but Outlook 2007 and earlier defaulted to C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.  I know that because I used to have a job upgrading PC’s in a large enterprise to Windows XP, and I had to manually move over the PST files that people forgot to back up.  That path is burned into my brain :)

Close the Account Settings window, and you will be back to the main Outlook window.  Your new PST (Outlook Data File) will be over on the left, and you can create new folders and drag mail into them (or setup rules).

Source of the post: The Sean Blog

Exchange 2007 Legacy Mailbox to User Mailbox

For Systems (or Exchange Server) Administrator or Help Support (Helpdesk), if you "mistakenly" create a new mailbox user using Active Directory Users and Computer (ADUC), you will notice that the mailbox you created for that user is tagged/displayed in the Exchange 2007 Management Console as a legacy mailbox. You will loose some features of Exchange 2007 in this mode.

To fix this issue, you need to remove the legacy tag in Exchange 2007 by running the command below (in step 3) in Exchange Management Shell.

Note: This command can be directly performed on one of the Exchange Servers on your network/domain or from your desktop computer. Here, I am going to describe how to run the command from a client computer. If you are running from the Exchange Server box, then go directly to step 2.

1 - Install Microsoft Exchange Management Tools from the Exchanger Server 2007 CD that will also install “Exchange Management Console” and “Exchange Management Shel” on the client computer (Windows XP or Windows Vista with SP1).

Note: Please note that installing Exchange Management Tools requires some steps to follow. If you are not familiar with the instalation, I recommend you read this great article from MSExchange.org. It gives all the steps that will help you out with the installation.

2 - You must Log in as a domain Administrator or member of the domain admin group to be able to run the command

3- Click on Start --> Programs or All Programs --> Exchange Management Tools --> and select "Exchange Management Shell"

3- In the command line that opens, type or copy and paste the following command: Set-Mailbox -Identity "alias" -ApplyMandatoryProperties

4 - Just change "alias" with the mailbox name or the alias and keep the quotations on it.

Please let me know if this helps or if you find a better way of doing it.