Microsoft Outlook 2013 Inside Out

Chapter 24. Archiving and Backing up your Data

Archiving items

Configuring automatic archiving

Backing up your Outlook data

OVER time, your Microsoft Outlook 2013 data store can become overloaded with messages, contact information, appointments, and other data. If you can’t manage all this data, you’ll be lost each time you try to find a particular item. What’s more, the more data in your data store, the larger your .pst file (if you’re using one) or your Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox. Many companies impose mailbox size limits to help manage disk use on the servers, so the size of your mailbox can become a problem.

This chapter focuses on managing your Outlook 2013 folders and their contents. You’ll learn how to archive your data, both manually ...