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In case it does not, this process requires you to have your account configurations provided by your ISP at hand. Outlook can detect and configure your accounts settings in most cases automatically based on your email address.

This however can be a very time consuming and labor intensive process. Recreating the Mail Profile is still recommendedĪs the locations of all the files that make up your Mail Profile are not necessarily the same on your new computer, I always recommend to manually backup and transfer your pst-file and then manually recreate your mail profile. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\ \Outlook\Profilesįor a full overview see Files and Settings guide for Outlook. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\ \Outlook\ If you still want to go the manual route of backup up and restoring your settings, you can find the main ones stored in the following locations Ĭ:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\Ĭ:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Ĭ:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures It will roam the settings of the following sections in the Options dialog įor more info about this feature see Outlook roaming options.

File-> Options-> General-> Store my Outlook settings in the cloud.

When you use Outlook as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription, then many settings can be stored in the cloud so that they will roam across all your Outlook installations or when your reinstall Outlook. However, there are already many settings which are kept within your mailbox or pst-file so these will transfer over automatically when your reconfigure your Exchange or mailbox, or reconfigure your pst-file.Īdditional options can be saved in the Cloud when you use Outlook as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription. In most cases, the need to backup Outlook’s settings is to reuse them on another computer. Is there still a need to backup Outlook settings?

it does not contain your pst-file (especially when you relocated it).

In addition to that it also has the following issues and limitations Over the years Microsoft has offered various tools to save or transfer your settings.Ĭurrently they still offer the User State Migration Tool but that is targeted toward large scale corporate migrations. How can I backup my Outlook settings and especially my email account configuration?