My customer has just moved to O365 and migrated everyone there. The owner just asked me if we could get “Barry’s” old email. There’s stuff in there he wants.
Barry is exploring new opportunities now and didn’t get migrated to O365 from exchange 2003 with everyone else. No Problem I thought. I fired up their old SBS 2003 server and connected a PC to it with outlook 2007 and logged in as Barry, I set up an outlook profile and exported everything to an .OST file. (1.5GB).
The wise among you can probably guess the rest of this tale. I can’t import an OST file. It wants a PST file. Also, it seems that I can’t convert an OST file to a PST file. I don’t really WANT to import the emails to the owner’s account, he just wants to be able to search them for info sometimes.
So, it seems that what I did was Wrong. What is Right? I still have the server with the data. How can I get Barry’s emails so Don ( the owner ) can read them? Must he import them? Can he import them in a “Barry” folder? I’d be just as happy if the emails were in a folder on Don’s PC rather than in the cloud.
What’s the best way to go about this?
Thanks for your advice!
