Cloud-based applications are always preferred by the users to save their data securely and to access it easily. With cloud services, the users only need a smooth internet connection and credentials of their account. The users are free to view their data anytime and at any platform. Outlook.com is one of the renowned web-mail services similarly, for Windows desktop users, Outlook is the commonly used email client for sending and receiving emails & managing contacts, calendar entries etc. In today’s era, it has been seen that a lot of people are moving from Outlook client to Outlook.com. To move the data from Outlook to Outlook.com, we are providing a simple manual approach in this post that will help users to accomplish the task.
Both Outlook and Outlook.com are offered by Microsoft but Outlook is a Windows-based email client for desktop users and Outlook.com is an online email service. This is the basic difference between the two. One of the prime reasons for migrating Outlook PST files to Outlook.com is anytime accessibility of mailbox items from anywhere. Plus, online applications are used to store a large amount of data. Moreover, Outlook fetches various errors in case of exceeding the storage limit. Now, the next question is how to migrate Outlook files to Outlook.com? Get a free of cost solution with step by step working in this post and easily move PST file in Outlook.com account.
There are only five steps to transfer Outlook emails to Outlook.com –
First of all, the users should check whether Outlook.com is configured as Microsoft Exchange Account. For this,
If you get “Microsoft Exchange” behind your Outlook.com account, you can move ahead but if it says “Exchange ActiveSync” then you need to re-add Outlook.com account with Auto Account Setup. This will connect Outlook.com as Microsoft Exchange account.
Before starting the migration process, make sure that a backup of Outlook PST file should be stored to save the data from damages and losses. You can make a copy of PST files by keeping it to a safe location when Outlook is closed.
The third-step is to check the size of your PST file because there are some size restrictions in data moving. So, it is always recommended to import only a maximum of 4GB data at a time.
When you are fully prepared by following the above 3 steps to migrate all folders of Outlook to Outlook.com account.
Default Mail folders
The default mail folders of Outlook like Inbox, Sent, Drafts etc. may create issues for users to move these folders.
So, the users need to use CTRL + A to select all folders of Outlook and then move the selected items to their corresponding folder in Outlook.com mailbox. You can view the Mail folder in Outlook by pressing CRTL + 1 and press CTRL + 6 to see all folders.
Contacts
The process to move contacts is similar to moving items from your Inbox folder. You can switch to the list view via Home tab to make the contacts export easier to Outlook.com account.
Calendars
Calendars are exported from MS Outlook PST to Outlook.com by switching to the calendar view to a list view via View Tab. Press CRTL + 2 to see all Outlook calendars.
Tasks
To move task, you need to keep two things in mind –
To do this, follow the mentioned steps –
With this write-up, the users will be able to transfer Outlook data files to Outlook.com without any issues. Only a little bit working knowledge of Outlook is needed to perform the migration task. Successful results are gained if the steps are put in the right order.
