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Cool. Tested successfully. Thanks.
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My company uses Exchange Server 2013 and the clients have Outlook 2010 installed. I use categories meticulously, and got to thinking the other day about disaster recovery. I could always get the messages themselves back if I had to reinstall Windows or move to another machine, but I would lose all the manual category assignments. What methods are out there for migrating these details, or are you just stuck imaging the hdd regularly? Just to be clear, I don't mean how to backup the list of custom defined categories, but how to reapply all of those to each Outlook item just as they were?
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My company uses Exchange Server 2013 and the clients have Outlook 2010 installed. I use categories meticulously, and got to thinking the other day about disaster recovery. I could always get the messages themselves back if I had to reinstall Windows or move to another machine, but I would lose all the manual category assignments. What methods are out there for migrating these details, or are you just stuck imaging the hdd regularly? Just to be clear, I don't mean how to backup the list of custom defined categories, but how to reapply all of those to each Outlook item just as they were?

Backup/restore categories assigned to each message

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.

Outlook

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.