The University's transition to Microsoft Outlook Email provided Villanova's users with more email functionality and the ability to manage e-mail, contacts, calendar, and tasks all from a single application.

Users' information (e-mail, contacts, calendar, tasks) is kept on the University's servers, with the exception of local mail (or personal folders).  The following website will provided step-by-step instructions for the process of backing up email/personal folders.

1.  Open Microsoft Outlook.

2.  Across the top menu, go to "Tools" and then "Account Settings."

3.  Choose the second tab from within Account Settings called "Data Files."

4. Click on the "Open Folder..." icon across the top.

5.  From the dialog box that opens, look for the ".pst" file.

6.  This vuex2007.pst file holds the contents of the Personal Folders.  This is the file that needs to be backed up.

The file can be burned to a CD by right-clicking and using the "Send to" function.

 It can also be back up on a flash drive or copied to another network drive.