subject: Migration From Outlook Express To Outlook 2003 And Outlook 2007 [print this page] It is important to know for everyone what benefits you are going as well as what you are going to lose when you do an upgradation. When you move from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 you will see some discontinued features as well as modified functionality in Outlook 3. Users who are familiar with MS Outlook 2002 and earlier versions can see that it has a 2 GB size limit of PST (Personal Storage) files. It is a general complaint seen by the 6team of Microsoft Outlook support. A big disadvantage of this feature is that data is corrupted or deleted automatically after the size exceeds 2 GB. In order to resolve this problem Microsoft launched the version Outlook 2003 that can store the PST files up to the size of 20 GB.
The problem with this upgradation is that you will not be able to add more files to the pre-Outlook 2003 PST files, so if you have Outlook PST files from the earlier version that has already hit 2 GB size limit, you cant resolve the condition by installing the Outlook 2003, attaching the old files and copying the data on these files. Also you are not able to repair the files if they are already corrupted due to the 2 GB size limit by the earlier versions of MS Outlook. The problem arises because of the use of different PST format by Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 provides the native Unicode storage while the previous versions of MS Outlook dont support the same.
Migrating to Outlook 2007 from earlier versions provides some new and exciting features to the users. In new version many email accounts can be automatically configured. Account setting Dialog Box replaces the E-mail accounts wizard. It provides access to RSS feeds, data files, address books, e-mail account configurations, and share point subscriptions. Follow up flags used in Microsoft Office 2003 are replaced by task flags and color categories. It is done by Microsoft to increase the functionality of flags. It facilitates the users to place an item in the task management system so that they can see the tasks in To-Do Bar, Daily task list in calendar and in the tasks view. A drop-down menu replaces the Follow up button and flag for Follow up dialog box. This change brings an overall improvement in the time and task management system.
However, there are some features missing in Outlook 2007. Collaboration Data Object (CDO) is an extensibility library that is not included in this version. Third-party applications customers having the requirement of CDO.DLL now receive an object not found message. Users have to download CDO from the internet. Personal address book is replaced by contacts. There are no longer any right and left navigation buttons in the address book dialog boxes. Task Pad is replaced by To-Do Bar. Users can see security settings in the new Trust Center. This is done to create consistency across multiple programs and to combine all security settings in one location.
