Need help moving outlook 365 to a new machine

Hi,
I've been quite happily running Office 365 Outlook with several email accounts (addresses) on a box running Windows 10 Pro with all files on the local drive for some time. Nothing is in the cloud, which is the way I like it. I just built a new machine and would like to know how to move everything, email, archived folders, contacts, the full banana to the new Windows 10 Pro machine. As near as I can tell, there are some .pst files and .ost files in different directories. I identify them as possibly useful as their "date modified" day is today. Can anyone point me to an article that will tell me how to do that?

Thanks in advance for any help.

wevets

Hi folks
@wevets
@essenbe

This topic seems to come up incredibly regularly but its quite simple --I'm using Office 2019 but it's the same process.

quite easy for amy version of Office - methodology is the same.


1) Close Outlook on OLD machine.
2) navigate in regedit to following key : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook]

3) save to any .reg file

4) save any .pst file - not mandatory unless you have any

5) on new machine import the .reg file from step 3) and any .pst files you saved.

6) start outlook and enter name you want to use as default profile when outlook starts.

7) restart outlook again - and enter passwords for each account prompted for --passwords aren't saved in this process

Job done

On some older machines the 16.0 version might be different and the HKEY might be slightly different e.g in HKEY current user == I'm on latest W10 (insider) releases.

Any probs just state which rel of W10 you are running and I can dig out the relevant HKEY. I've copied a load of Office installations between machines from OFFICE 2010 onwards.

Cheers
jimbo

Jimbo45,

It's been a few weeks since I saw your answer. I had a problem with a motherboard that was "slightly" incompatible with my processor. It took a while to figure that out and get my new system running stably. But that's behind me, and I used our directions to replicate my outlook setup, including contacts, saved email, the whole basket. It worked quite well.

I especially appreciate your instructions on copying the registry stuff over. That made a big difference in making outlook run on the new machine exactly as it did on the old without a lot of dinking around with setting defaults etc. Since the registry knew where all the files (about 10 in my case) should be, I just had to copy them to the same directories as they were on my old machine. None of the "install .pst's and .ost's stuff, which is a bit tedious.

So, thanks. You did a public service, and I owe you.

wevets (that's steve w. spelled backward. Its a common name. All the other variations were used up.)