migrating from WLM to Outlook

If Outlook is installed used/opened at least once(necessary to create the profile and *.pst file)in the same Windows user profile,
then WLM can export messages to Outlook
- File/Export/Messages/<choose Exchange> and follow the instruction/prompts

Contacts can be exported and saved in a *.csv file in WLM. Outlook can import contacts from the saved *.csv file

Outlook doesn't support newsgroup without a 3rd party client.

WLM and Outlook can co-exist on the same machine. Only one can be default(if using Outlook , make Outlook the default).

You may want to retain WLM rather than delete/remove since it does have the ability, unlike Outlook, to read *.eml and *.nws files

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"jvb" <> wrote in message news:CB5C93FA-2E42-439F-B8ED-...
> New laptop with Win 7. Started using WLM. Now have installed Office, including Outlook. Would prefer to use Outlook instead of
> WLM. Can the two co-exist or can I delete WLM? Any special tricks to transitioning? Any online sources that explain how best
> to do the migration? Thanks.

New laptop with Win 7. Started using WLM. Now have installed Office,
including Outlook. Would prefer to use Outlook instead of WLM. Can the two
co-exist or can I delete WLM? Any special tricks to transitioning? Any
online sources that explain how best to do the migration? Thanks.

The two can co-exist.

A few key points..
WLM can export messages to Outlook(the latter needs to be installed and run at least once to setup the OL profile and create the
*.pst file to accept the export)
Outlook can not export messages to WLM
WLM can not import messages from Outlook

Note: If you wish Outlook to setup a Hotmail account using the http protocol(all folders mirrored from the web similar to WLM http
for a Hotmail account) then the Outlook Connector must be installed. The Outlook Connector is only available for OL03/07. The
alternative for Hotmail in OL is to setup the Hotmail account using the pop3 protocol.

Once all your messages are in Outlook, WLM can be removed***
****Outlook does not have a newsreader, thus if WLM is removed, you'll have to use another(3rd party) or install a 3rd party
add-in for Outlook.


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"jvb" <> wrote in message news:CB5C93FA-2E42-439F-B8ED-...
> New laptop with Win 7. Started using WLM. Now have installed Office, including Outlook. Would prefer to use Outlook instead of
> WLM. Can the two co-exist or can I delete WLM? Any special tricks to transitioning? Any online sources that explain how best
> to do the migration? Thanks.

"...winston" <> wrote in message
news:#...

> WLM can not import messages from Outlook
>

That's interesting. Wonder why they did that?

The option was present in WLM12, then removed in WLM14...iirc, due to problems with importing from Outlook.

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"Gordon" <> wrote in message news:...
>
> "...winston" <> wrote in message
> news:#...
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>> WLM can not import messages from Outlook
>>
>
> That's interesting. Wonder why they did that?
>
>

Sounds like the WLM team could use some smarter coders. :-)

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen


"...winston" <> wrote in message news:...
> The option was present in WLM12, then removed in WLM14...iirc, due to problems with importing from Outlook.
>
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> ...winston
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> "Gordon" <> wrote in message news:...
>>
>> "...winston" <> wrote in message
>> news:#...
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>>> WLM can not import messages from Outlook
>>>
>>
>> That's interesting. Wonder why they did that?
>>
>>

Not sure if we ever were informed of the exact cause of the problem.

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"Gary VanderMolen" <> wrote in message news:#...
> Sounds like the WLM team could use some smarter coders. :-)
>
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen
>
>
> "...winston" <> wrote in message news:...
>> The option was present in WLM12, then removed in WLM14...iirc, due to problems with importing from Outlook.
>>
>> --
>> ...winston
>> ms-mvp mail
>>
>> "Gordon" <> wrote in message news:...
>>>
>>> "...winston" <> wrote in message
>>> news:#...
>>>
>>>> WLM can not import messages from Outlook
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's interesting. Wonder why they did that?
>>>
>>>