On 3/27/09 10:56 AM, "Jon Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > In other words, I'm taking an Office 2004 identity and dropping it into > Office 2008 - not doing a standard upgrade. Can Office '08 handle this > and convert the Office database automatically? Or do I need to convert > the database first, or import it into Entourage 2008?
What you are describing sounds like a forced update. I'm not sure I would recommend doing it this way. Bill might be able to give more info on doing this in a corporate environment, but let's first discuss the basics. An Entourage 2004 Identity is upgraded when imported into Entourage 2008. It can no longer be used by Entourage 2004. Shortly after Entourage 2008 was launched another change was made and the database was again upgraded. This resulted in the Identity that could not be used by 12.0.0. Generally a database created for a version can be used by any update unless there is an upgrade in the mix. There is a subtle difference between update and upgrade. <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/index.html#upgrade_update> Installing Office 2008 now, there should only be one upgrade that takes place if you fully update Entourage first. This is a very intensive process and often fails if there is any problem with the database.The upgrade of the database is only for mail that is stored in folders "On My Computer." If all mail is on the server, then there is no upgrade needed. Just install Entourage and update to 12.1.5. Create account and let it sync back up. An option to get around the upgrade database issue is to export your data from Entourage 2004 as Entourage archive (.rge) file. This can be imported directly into Entourage 2008. You do loose come category info on events, notes and tasks, but messages and contacts do retain categories. There are shareware scripts that will export everything, if this is something that is needed. I personally don't use Exchange so it's not my area of expertise, but Bill will chime in and correct or add to this. Hopefully, I've laid the groundwork on the process. Hope this helps! -- Diane YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected]
