Note: This blog is written as if you are migrating a user from Windows XP with Office 2003 to Windows 7 with Office 2010.

If are migrating a user to a new computer coupled with an upgrade to Outlook 2003 you can import the nickname file from Outlook 2003 into the new Outlook 2010 suggested contacts:

1. Copy the NK2 file from the old machine which is usually located in C:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook. This file may be hidden and is called the same as the Outlook profile.

2. Put the NK2 file in the following location on the new PC. %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook

3. Open control panel –> Mail and click on the Show Profiles button:

4. While the mail profile list is open, click on Start –> Run and type in outlook.exe /importnk2 and click on OK

This should launch Outlook and import the addresses into the Suggested Contacts and the users should see the addresses appear from their old Outlook:

Cheers

Paul

You receive the following error when creating a meeting request for a Room Mailbox using Exchange 2010:

I confirmed that all permissions were correct and compared the settings against another Room Mailbox that was working correctly.

Solution:

1. Create an Outlook Profile for the Room Mailbox that is experiencing issues
2. Launch Outlook with the newly created profile
3. Open Resource Scheduling (File > Options > Calendar > Resource Scheduling)
4. Ensure that the following options are NOT selected:
• Automatically accept meeting requests and process cancellations
• Automatically decline conflicting meeting requests
• Automatically decline recurring meeting requests

Since coming back off holiday I noticed that my RSS feeds that I had spent so much time setting up were not updating. The first thing that I checked was the subscriptions set against the account which can be found in the following location in Outlook 2010 on the ribbon:

File –> Info –> Account Settings –> Account Settings –> RSS Feeds tab

I could see that it was empty. Removing the subscription does not remove the folders in Outlook which is why I could still see all of the previous items but not the new ones.

I set about putting all the RSS feeds back in and then looked at backing them up just in case this were to happen again or indeed if anyone else wanted to have the same feeds that I set up.

The procedure for backing them up is:

File –> Open –> Import

You then get presented with the wizard screen, just select the “Export RSS Feeds to an OPML file”, click on next and select the RSS feeds that you want to backup. Again click on next and save the file with a name to where you want.

Your RSS feeds are now backed up.

To import them from a OPML file simply right click on your RSS Feeds folder in Outlook and select the option to “Import an OPML File”, then browse to the file and select the RSS feeds that you want to import:

It should automatically create the folder if there is not one already there.

Hope this helps.

Paul