[nflug] Offtopic: Read at your own peril.

[Brad Bartram]

Believe it or not, I'm finding that creating the VM is a little easier.
VMWare makes a nice little utility for making a virtual machine out of a
harddrive image.  It's called VMware-converter - and it's free.

If the machine is running, just fire up this app and set it up to do its
thing using the wizard.  The vm gets created.

We did it once with the full laptop drive, which turned into a performance
nightmare because of all the crap he runs - it is a windows laptop afterall,
but it booted right away.  We decided it would be best to remove some of the
startup stuff and then do a reimage.  We popped the old harddrive into a new
laptop, fired up the os, ran the vmware software, and voila - problem
solved.

BTW - I am very impressed with vmware fusion.  If you run a mac, I would
recommend you think about it for virtualization needs.

Thanks for all the help guys.  As always, whenever I beat my head against a
wall, I know someone on this list can usually recommend something.

Brad

On Dec 7, 2007 1:16 PM, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> If you can find that *.pst file, you'll save yourself tons of time and
> agro.
>
> Brad Bartram wrote:
> > From my research, I've found that Outlook2007 has things thrown all
> > over the place in various files and registry settings and keys.  Right
> > now I have two things going on, I've figured out the registry keys
> > being used, so I'm hacking them into the current system.  I'm also
> > imaging the entire drive for a vmware virtual machine.
> >
> > I'll see how these things work.
> >
> > I'll post a result as something happens so everyone can stop anxiously
> > holding their breath in anticipation.  ;-)
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2007 12:20 PM, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com
> > <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Not sure about the newer versions but Outlook from Office 2000 would
> >     make a backup *.pst file by default. I've used this before. Search
> >     through the old data for *.pst, I believe it will be called
> >     backup.pst,
> >     import that file and you should have all as it was.
> >
> >     Brad Bartram wrote:
> >     > Hey guys,
> >     >
> >     > First, sorry about the off topic post, but I know there's probably
> >     > some knowledge on the subject here, so I figured I'd give it a
> try.
> >     >
> >     > Here's my issue:
> >     >
> >     > A person I work with is using Outlook 2007 for his mail and
> >     personal
> >     > scheduling and address book and keeping his food cold, etc.  He
> >     > recently had his laptop crap out on him.  Long story short, we
> >     have a
> >     > new machine for him, but he wants to migrate his old settings
> >     and such
> >     > from his old harddrive image over to his new machine.  He has
> >     all his
> >     > old email in the form of a pst, as well as complete access to
> >     the old
> >     > drive including the registry.
> >     >
> >     > From my preliminary research, I found that outlook stores account
> >     > information in the registry (go figure).  His big concern is the
> >     email
> >     > filters he has set up to move his mail all around.  He has quite a
> >     > complex ruleset and isn't really looking forward to recreating
> >     it from
> >     > scratch - and neither do I, because I sit right next to him and it
> >     > just won't make my day pleasant.
> >     >
> >     > So does anyone here know where outlook 2007 stores the filter
> data?
> >     >
> >     > The only thing we don't have access to at this point is a running
> >     > machine with his native OS and Data on it, we're working from an
> >     > image, so I can't just fire up his old OS and run an export or
> >     > migration application or utility on it.
> >     >
> >     > Any help would be appreciated.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks
> >     >
> >     > Brad
> >     >
> >
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