Setting up MS Outlook to use old data file on new computer.
I wanted to start this by saying that this process is a nightmare. Really it isn't a nightmare when you understand it. The problem is that this product's configuration setting to set up a new computer to use an old computer's .pst or .ost file is so confusing and the online explanations are so convoluted that a non-technical user may never figure it out. The key to understanding this is when you set up the account, the initial account (on the new computer during the first set up of Outlook), you need to do a couple of things. First, you have to set up using the manual options. The automatic options work but the assumptions that Microsoft makes is just garbage. If a server uses imap and you don't know…