[nflug] Offtopic: Read at your own peril.

[Cyber Source]

Oh yea, we use VMware converter here all the time. I use ntfsresize to 
reduce the use of windows on the hard drive, make room for linux, make a 
vm out of the boot side and then run it under the Linux side, voila! 
They now can experience Linux and have their windows stuff a click away. 
And, business is boomin.

Brad Bartram wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: 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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