Entourage 2008 to Outlook 2011

I have a user that was recently moved from Entourage 2008 to Outlook 2011. There seem to be two things that are not working properly:
1) The exported/imported contacts do not work in Outlook. The user gets a 5.5.4 invalid email address error.
2) I can't figure out how to export the "boxes" from Entourage and import them into Outlook.
Any help is appreciated.

As those are not Apple productsI think you'd do better to ask Microsoft through their forums:
Office for Mac forums
MS employees often respond in those forums so you get the expertise of their Mac Business Group gurus.
I think I'm one of a handful of people around here that uses Entourage. I have avoided Office 2011 but I know that, when exporting to newer computers, I select "Items to an Entourage achive" and that gets everything; mail, folders I've created, contacts, and calendar. Here are the settings in the first Export screen from Entourage 2008:

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Messages won't import from Entourage 2008 to Outlook 2011

My hard drive crashed on my MacBook Pro that was running Entourage 2008 for Mac. I have a back up of the Microsoft User Data file, and I want to upload it to Outlook 2011 for Mac. When I import the data, it pulls my calendar and complete folder structure into outlook perfectly. However, there are no messages/emails in any of the folders. I've tried it a couple times and same thing always happens. Transfers everything but the messages. The database is 19GBs, so I know the messages are on there.

To exporting Entourage data into Outlook 2011, select "Items to an Entourage archive" option and that gets export everything; mail, folders I've created, contacts, and calendar.

Applescript to import entourage identity to Outlook 2011

HI everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has had experience or knows the syntax involved in using the applescript commands "import identity" and "import rge" in Outlook 2011 SP1 for Mac.
I've got a script to add the user's Exchange acct into outlook, but am working on automatically importing their Entourage 2004/2008 identity and any .rge archives they may have.
Any ideas? Even if you just know the syntax to use, that would be a huge help. I keep getting thid message on importing an rge:
set TestArchive to "TestArchive.rge"
do shell script "cd /Users/agiadminexec2/Desktop/"
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
import rge TestArchive
end tell
Response:
tell current application
          do shell script "cd /Users/agiadminexec2/Desktop/"
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
          import rge "TestArchive.rge"
false
end tell
And when I try to import identity:
do shell script "cd '/Users/agiadminexec2/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/'"
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
          import identity "Main Identity"
end tell
Response:
tell current application
          do shell script "cd '/Users/agiadminexec2/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2004 Identities/'"
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
          import identity "Main Identity"
                    "Microsoft Outlook got an error: Parameter error."

Hi,
We can import .iaf files in Outlook 2010 using the following method:
Start Outlook 2010.
On the File menu, click Import and Export.
Click the Advanced tab, and then click Export.
Click Import Internet Mail Account Settings, and then click
Next.
Follow the Internet Connection Wizard to complete the import process.
But, I don't know if we can do this in Outlook for Mac 2011. Since this forum is for general questions and feedback related to Outlook for Windows, it's better to post Mac related issue to the forum for Mac:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoutlook?tab=Threads
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is
you
will
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and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.
Thank you for your understanding.
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Import entourage database into Outlook 2011 for mac

I set up a new macbook from a time machine backup. The main identity for entourage was from the original date of install. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that when I did my initial import so it brought in about two e-mails from 2 years ago but not the entire database. I did a new TM backup of the entire database and chose import in Outlook and it appeared to be going but when it indicated it was finished-- nothing new showed up. What did I do wrong?

Hi,
We can import .iaf files in Outlook 2010 using the following method:
Start Outlook 2010.
On the File menu, click Import and Export.
Click the Advanced tab, and then click Export.
Click Import Internet Mail Account Settings, and then click
Next.
Follow the Internet Connection Wizard to complete the import process.
But, I don't know if we can do this in Outlook for Mac 2011. Since this forum is for general questions and feedback related to Outlook for Windows, it's better to post Mac related issue to the forum for Mac:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoutlook?tab=Threads
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is
you
will
get the most qualified pool of respondents,
and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.
Thank you for your understanding.
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

Outlook 2011 for Mac / Synching issues

Hi there,
it seems that I'm not alone with 'issues' in synching Outlook for Mac 2011 with mobile devices..
The setup I am trying to arm wrestle into submission is
MacBook Air (brand new) Mavericks 10.9.3
iPhone 5 iOS 7.1.1.
Outlook 2013 (brand new)
I've been able to succesfully import all of my email (from a previous version in windows) as well as get the contacts and the calendars imported onto Outlook for Mac, but am at my wits end to get them all talking to each other.
Outlook won't sync to the iPhone for mail, contacts and or calendar, nor visa versa.
I've read literally thousands of posts all suggesting this fix and that fix to no avail. I'm now reading that perhaps mavericks is not compatible with outlook synching services or outlook synching services isn't compatible with mavericks. I'm not trying to lay blame to either side as I'm simply looking for a solution.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Paul
oh - Apple Migration Tool.... is appalling in my opinion, it did sweet bugger all.

Minor correction. It's Outlook 2011, Outlook 2013 is the Windows version.
Sync Basics
CalDAV & CardDAV are protocols used by Apple, Google, Yahoo and others to sync contacts and calendars. Neither Entourage 2008 nor Outlook 2011 support CalDAV or CardDAV.
You can no longer sync with any third-party apps running on your Mac that use Sync Services, like Entourage or Outlook.
If you want to stick with Outlook, I suggest you look at Office 365 Exchange. Otherwise, moving to Apple Mail, Contacts and Calendar with iCloud might be a better option for you.
Until Microsoft adds CalDAV and CardDAV support to Outlook, there is no way to sync other than get an Exchange account. It's $4/month Exchange Online.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/microsoft-exchange-online-email-for-b usiness-FX103739072.aspx

Migrating to new macbook air with Lion, entourage 2008 doesn't work

I bought a new macbook air with lion installed. trying to migrate data from my old macbook with snow leopard. Got most data across, and installed my most frequently used applications:
- office 2008: most office apps 2008 work, if buggily. entourage not, see below.
- firefox (hangs up when downloading updates)
- dropbox (ditto)
<these two problems may have something to do with internet proxy settings, will try to sort that out later>
MAIN ISSUE:
entourage wont open at all. so for now i'm using my old comp for e-mail and the new for the rest.
MY OPTIONS:
please advise (1) what you think is the most time & nerve-saving option (2) how to do it smoothly:
A) try to get office 2008 to work.
when trying to open entourage, it tells me this version (office 2008 12.0) cannot open this entourage database (12.3)
error for other apps says there is a problem with database, and rebuilding several times did not fix it.
would have to start with updating to the version i used last (office 2008 12.3). Problem is the ms office updater does not seem to work on lion. the first update does not open, says it does not support powermac.
B) buying office 2011, and migrating entourage 2008 to outlook.
I suppose the best way to do this is to install office 2011 on the old mac first, then on the new one, then move database, right?
C) migrating from entourage 2008 to lion mail.
best way to do this would be to import entourage email to leopard mail, then move those files to the new mac? and move entourage addresses into the mac addressbook. my major concern is that i have a lot of mailing rules, and a fair bunch of notes. a lot. i;d rather not have to recreate those by hand. Is there a way to import rules from entourage to mail?
i also habe a huge backstock of mail, over 10,000, and a correspondigly huge addressbook (within entourage). i'm ready to abandon entourage at last (though i used it for a decade), but i want to have my addresses, my rules, and at least the last 3 yrs of emails. i get about 130 mails a day so i need plenty of automatic organizing capability.
i never had issues my old mac/snow leopard, i just ran out of ram and the one usb broke, so i figured it's time. kinda sorry i did not just get the usb repaired and extra ram. what a hassle these migrations always are.
cheers!
maedi

Kappy wrote:
Yes, repairing first is a sound idea. In my experience I've only moved from Entourage to the OS X applications or from one version of Entourage to another. In the latter I've been able to just copy over the Microsoft User Data folder. But I have not used Entourage for quite some time.
Microsoft don't make it quite that easy to migrate to their own applications, but the import from a 'tidy' .rge file works well, I had a lot of issues with the first few I migrated but after performing a database repair prior to import all proceeded smoothly.

Import Entourage Databse to Outlook 2010

How can I export my Extourage 2008 email database to Outlook 2010.
I have an mac book with entourage 2010 installed and now I need to switch over to windows system containing outlook 2010. I need to transfer all the data from entourage 2008 to outlook 2010. I have plenty of emails, the all mails folder shows 13849 emails. I have also arranged these emails in different folders, so it will really helpful if after transfer all the folders are saved similarly as in entourage 2008.
Please help me export the email database from entourage 2008 to outlook 2010.

What kind of email account? IMAP or POP?
Any IMAP email accounts should be easy as you will just need to add the email account to Apple Mail as any messages and folders should be on the email server.
For POP, then you will need to do some sort of export/import. You could try "drag and drop" from Outlook to Mail. I believe this will work, but I don't fully recall.
Bulk mail transfer can be done best with the help of applications.
Here is one tool that I found in top rankings of google search:- Entourage to Outlook
I hope this helps you

I have a serious contacts redundancy problem. First I have multiple email account formats, e.g., 2011 MacOutlook, 2008 Entourage, 2007 Window Outlook, iPhone Exchange and these are all connected to the same account. The problem is I had up to 15 contact

I have a serious contacts redundancy problem.
First I have multiple email account formats,e.g., 2011 MacOutlook, 2008 Entourage, 2007 Window Outlook, iPhone Exchange and these are all connected to the same account. The problem is I had up to 15 contacts for the same person.
I deleted the Entourage contacts as that seemed to be the program that was causing the problems. When I synced this morning, now all my contacts are gone from every where.
How can I restore to my last back? If I restore, it will ask to restore to the back that was just made… which has no contacts?
Help would be greatly appreciated !!

I have a serious contacts redundancy problem.
First I have multiple email account formats,e.g., 2011 MacOutlook, 2008 Entourage, 2007 Window Outlook, iPhone Exchange and these are all connected to the same account. The problem is I had up to 15 contacts for the same person.
I deleted the Entourage contacts as that seemed to be the program that was causing the problems. When I synced this morning, now all my contacts are gone from every where.
How can I restore to my last back? If I restore, it will ask to restore to the back that was just made… which has no contacts?
Help would be greatly appreciated !!

Entourage 2008 not importing from Outlook 2011

The import wizard in Entourage 2008 is not functioning properly. I am trying to import all the emails, sub-folders like spam, outbox and a few that I have made manually from Outlook 2011 to Entourage 2008. But the Import hangs up after few seconds of processing and nothing is imported in entourage. Is there any other way of importing the emails from outlook 2011 to entourage 2008?

Hi,
Please try the steps in the link below(if you haven't):
http://www.olmconverterpro.com/support/migrating-olm-files-to-microsoft-entourag e-20042008/
Since this issue is on Mac, we'd better post this question to the Office for Mac forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2008-macother?tm=135184203 5587

I can't import Microsoft Ofice X Entourage into Outlook 2011 for Mac

I'm trying to import tasks from Microsoft Office X for Mac Entourage into Microsoft Office fo Mac 2011 Outlook and I'm failing miserably. It seems like Outlook only wants to import from Entourage 2004, Entourage 2008, or an Entourage archive. Entourage X doesn't seem to be able to archive?

You may have to do it the hard way. Launch Entourage X (which of course requires booting into something other than Lion). For each folder you've created for your Inbox, create a folder on the desktop by the same name.
Click on the folders one at a time in Entourage. Highlight any email and then press Command+A to select all of them. Drag the emails out of Entourage to the folder by the same name on the desktop. Repeat for each email folder you have. Next, export your contacts and save that to the desktop.
Move or copy all of the data from the desktop to someplace you can get at it from Lion
Restart in Lion and launch Outlook. Create Inbox folders that match the names of the folders you created on your desktop. Drag the contents of each folder into the appropriate email folder in Outlook. Import your contacts.

Entourage 2008 - Importing from Outlook 2007 ???

Hi guys, just got a MacBook Pro this week and I had reserved a copy of Office 2008 which I got today.
It's great because that's what I was waiting for to put my PC on sale
BUT i was astonished to see that there's not the option to import pst files in Entourage ??
I was using Office 2007 for PC therefore Outlook 2007.
The only way we can export stuff is by creating .PST files, so you can backup all your contacts, your messages with attachements and your calendar (which are my 3 priorities).
Using the equivalent application from Microsoft but for the Mac, that is : Entourage 2008, there's not the option to import .pst ?? What the heck ??
So please guys if you know a way to export my stuff (messages, contacts and calendar) from Outlook 2007 PC to Entourage 2008 MAC, please let me know !!!
THANK YOU !!

Hey guys,
I don't want to be repeting by here's the way I worked this out :
EMAILS
First I installed Thunderbird on my Win computer.
Then I imported from outlook. It took a while since my PST was like 3 Gb.
At first I was crashing it but then I let it work for a try and it imported everything perfectly, but not showing any progress bar during the process.
Second, I searched Thunderbird help for the way to export in MBOX, and it pointed out that I sould get a plug-in, which I did.
Third, having installed the plug-in, I had a tool menu for exporting. Only thing I had to do is select each folder one by one and export them using this plug-in, I only had to add .MBOX extention to every file.
Finally, when you get these files in OS X with entourage, you just drag and drop them in entourage and them import perfectly.
That did the job for me anyways.
CONTACTS
Send yourself emails of contacts !
I sent myself email (with the WORK OFFLINE option so I wouldn't receive them in outlook) in the contacts from outlook.
As you can imagine, I totally got rid of Outlook, and of Windows actually, by now but as I remember it when you right click on a contact you have an item that's called something like "send full information of contact through email".
So to keep my categories I sent one email per categories.
Back in entourage, I had to save attachements, import them, put them in a category.
Then next email, etc. and so on.
CALENDAR
I haven't found a way to do this but what I did was : In outlook you have a way to display your calendar events by a list, so I just made a couple of print screen of that list and I put the future events that I wanted to keep in Entourage.
And the conclusion is :
Well I said byebye to Entourage because I don't need MS Exchange support and I hate Microsoft more and more everyday so I'm using Mail, Address Book and iCal now
But I could easily import from entourage into all of these.
The only microsoft apps I still are the must-have : word, excel and powerpoint 2008.

Entourage 2008 Exchange to Outlook Web Access

Okay, bear with me: I'm an end-user and not especially technically inclined.
That said, for years I've used Entourage 2008 as my email client (on a MacBook Pro, OSX 10.9), and it successfully works with the web-based Outlook account that my ISP provides, through a POP connection.
Now, I'd like to sync my Entourage calendar with one in Outlook.
Importing the Entourage calendar into Outlook was easy. But when I build an Exchange account in Entourage, I seem to have fallen on my face.
It still imports mail, but can't send mail
It doesn't sync the Outlook calendar (on the web) to Entourage's
I have upgraded Entourage to the EWS version of 12.3.6.
After configuring the Web Services Edition (as best I could), I still can't send email — or sync Entourage to the online Outlook calendar.
Here's the error message: "Unexpected data was encountered" Error: -17997
I'm using the same settings I see in my Nokia N8 mobile's Exchange mailbox settings (which works perfectly with Outlook including syncing its calendar with OWA's calendar).
What puzzles me is that an Exchange account on Entourage and my MacBook won't work using the same settings as Exchange ActiveSync on my Nokia N8, which syncs flawlessly with OWA. Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

An additional point of information. You've posted to an Exchange 2013 forum. Is your Exchange organization running Exchange 2013? If not, the Exchange previous versions forums are here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/exchangeserverlegacy.
You should share the Exchange version, service pack and update level you're running.
If you believe that it's an Exchange configuration problem as opposed to Entourage, then the issue would likely be in the configuration of Exchange Web Services, particularly the EWS virtual directory.
Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Migrating from Outlook 2007 to Entourage 2008

15 days ago, I bought my first Mac after a 12-year gap. I have been trying to get my information from Outlook 2007 into Entourage 2008 without any luck. I've google'd and found that there are indirect paths only. (via mbox).
My E08 refuses to recognize the mbox files. After renaming my Inbox files as Inbox.mbox, they show up as E08 files (with the E08 icons). But I cannot open them in E08. When I go the File, Import method in E08, all mbox files are grayed out and I cannot select any of them.
I've installed Thunderbird on my Mac and got all the files into Thunderbird from my Win PC. Apple Mail crashes consistently when I try to import from Apple Mail.
Total file size is 5+ GB with 30 folders. Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong.

Here is a long pending update on how I got my OL2007 data into E2008.
On the PC:
1. Setup Gmail Imap in OL2007. (I used my Gmail account for this purpose. Go into Gmail and search for "Outlook Imap setup")
ENSURE ENTOURAGE IS NOT RUNNING ON THE MAC.
2. Drag and drop each sub-folder from the Inbox into the Inbox of the Gmail Imap folder.
3. Depending on the size of the sub-folder and attachment, it makes take a few minutes to a couple of hours.
On the Mac:
4. Setup the Gmail Imap folders in Entourage too. (again refer Gmail help section).
SHUTDOWN OL2007 ON THE PC
5. Drag and drop the subfolder you created in step 2 onto your Entourage Inbox. (because this is a "download", it might work faster).
6. After step 5 is complete, quit Entourage.
7. Back to your PC, start OL2007.
8. Drag and drop the sub-folder from Gmail into the OL2007 Inbox. (this step is required if you want to preserve all the data on OL2007).
9. Repeat for other folders present on your OL2007.
This process is excruciatingly slow and painful, but it did get me all my data, attachments, preserved the links intact and organized it according to categories. For categories, ensure that you create the same categories as your OL2007 on E2008.
Good luck.

Entourage 2008 calendar sync with Outlook 2007

For all you Entourage 2008 & Outlook users out there, is it possible to schedule calendar appointments in Outlook and have them appear in Entourage?
The opposite of that, scheduling appointments in Entourage and viewing in Outlook, works w/out issue but still scratching my head on why the reverse doesn't.
(btw, backend is Exchange 2007)

*"is it possible to schedule calendar appointments in Outlook and have them appear in Entourage?"*
Yes.
Since neither are Apple products, you should consider posting your question on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac products, as they would be geared more toward any issue you have then a forum focusing on Apple's own Mail applications:
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

Outlook 2013 not importing Ms Entourage 2008 archive files

Hello, I have archive files exported from ms entourage 2008 from my mac which I want to import into outook 2013. The file format of these exported files is .rge but there is import option for these kind of file format in outlook 2013 in my windows system.
Is there any other alternative available to import these .rge files in outlook 2013? Please help.

Hi,
We can use Entourage to PST Converter to convert Entourage Archive .rge files to PST File, then it would be easy to be imported to Outlook.(We may need to pay for the tool, but there's a Trial version to download)
http://entouragetopst.com/how-to-convert-entourage-archive-rge-files-to-pst-file-outlook-windows/
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Import Outlook items from an Outlook Data File (.pst):
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/outlook-help/import-outlook-items-from-an-outlook-data-file-pst-HA102919679.aspx
Regards.
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

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