Hello,

We are migrating to Exchange Server (2007) and I need to know if it is possible, and if so how, to keep clients categories and flags when migrating from a regular Outlook (.pst) files to Exchange.

 

As always, any help is greatly appreciated,

David92595

• Edited by David92595 Monday, September 23, 2013 10:06 PM

I guess it might matter what you're migrating from.

Yes it might,

We are migrating from outlook 2007.

Hi,

Firstly, I would like to explain, flag and categories are emails' properties.
Generally, they won't disappear during  migration from a regular Outlook (.pst) files to Exchange.And I have done a test on my lab machine to double confirm it.

Thanks,
Angela Shi

Your e-mail system is Outlook 2007?  Angela is correct, those e-mail properties should remain, depending on how you're

Thank you both, especially Angela, for running your test.  We had a test group in exchange a few months back, when the project got put on ice and I was forced to bring our test group back to (orginal?) outlook from exchange. When I did I notieced that flagged items were not kept from exchange to outlook...so I thought it would be the same doing the reverse.

Thank you both, you have put my mind at ease.

@Ed, when converting to Exchange I am importing the pst files via file-->"import and export" to the users excange account via outlook, so they are saved on the server.  Do you see any problems with this type of migration?

Thanks again!

David92595

• Edited by David92595 11 hours 8 minutes ago grammatical correction

Things can be lost through that type of migration, especially things like delegates, permissions, recipient integrity, and so on depending on where the data is coming from and where it's going to.

Thank you for letting me know,

How would you recomend mirgrating the pst files into exchange?

David92595

I would recommend never using PST files in the first place.  But since that's where you are, you don't have a lot of choices.