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When you add a Microsoft Exchange account, you change where some of your new e-mail messages and calendar information are saved. These changes take effect the next time that you start Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Effects of such a change

• Rules   A Rules in Conflict dialog box might appear the next time that you synchronize your mailbox or send an e-mail message. Because Outlook cannot save rules in multiple data files, you must decide whether you want to continue to save the rules on the server running Exchange, or to save them locally on your own computer. There is no way to merge multiple rule sets.

  If you want to keep both rule sets, do the following:

  1. In the Rules in Conflict dialog box, click Cancel.

     You can now continue using the rules that are saved on your computer.

  2. The next time that the Rules in Conflict dialog box appears, click Server. Doing so overwrites your local rules with the server's rules.
  3. In Mail, on the Tools menu, click Rules and Alerts, click Options, and then click Import Rules.
  4. Select the .rwz file that you created in step 1. The default location for the .rwz file is drive:\Documents and Settings\<user>\My Documents.
  5. Click Open.
• RSS Subscriptions   The contents of any new RSS Feed (RSS Feeds: Subscription-based distribution feeds of news, blogs, and other information. RSS Feeds contain summaries or complete content and can include attachments. Other names for RSS Feeds include Web Feeds or XML Feeds.) that you subscribe to are saved to the RSS Feeds folder in your Exchange mailbox, instead of to the Personal Folders file (.pst) (Personal Folders file (.pst): Data file that stores your messages and other items on your computer. You can assign a .pst file to be the default delivery location for e-mail messages. You can use a .pst to organize and back up items for safekeeping.) on your local computer. Saving RSS Feeds to the Exchange mailbox allows your RSS content to roam  — that is, to be viewed on any computer that you use to connect to your Exchange account. Optionally, you can choose not to save RSS Feeds to your Exchange mailbox, but doing so means that you can view downloaded RSS content only on the one computer on whichit is stored.
• Internet Calendar Subscriptions  A folder in an Internet Calendar Subscription .pst file is created to synchronize the data on your computer with the data on the calendar publisher's Web site. When you add an Exchange account, enough information to synchronize your Internet Calendar Subscriptions is saved in your Exchange account, and so the subscription is available from any computer that you use to connect to your Exchange account. You have the option to save the Internet Calendar Subscription content on only one of your computers, but the information required for content synchronization is still saved to your Exchange account, even if not all of the computers that you use are synchronizing the content. By default, new Internet Calendar Subscriptions are synchronized by all of the computers that you use.
• Automatic Tentative calendar items  New meeting requests sent to your POP3 (POP3: A common protocol that is used to retrieve e-mail messages from an Internet e-mail server.) and IMAP (IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): Unlike Internet e-mail protocols such as POP3, IMAP creates folders on a server to store/organize messages for retrieval by other computers. You can read message headers only and select which messages to download.) e-mail accounts are inspected and saved to your Exchange calendar. If someone sends you a Calendar Snapshot for a personal event, it is placed in your primary Exchange calendar.
• View settings   Any links to Exchange calendars that you view in your Exchange account are available on all of the computers that you use to connect to your Exchange account.
• Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 information   Viewing the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 information works the same way that Internet Calendar Subscriptions do, except that it is much less likely that you would have access to any SharePoint content at home.
• Color Categories   Your official and personal color category lists are merged and stored on the server running Exchange.
• Working Hours   The working hours that you set for official purposes override the working hours that you set for personal purposes.