Opening Your Outlook Archive
how to open your archive folder in outlook
This is a guide for housing staff when they want to open their Outlook archives
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Open Outlook>File>Open & Export and select Open Outlook Data File
This should open to a file explorer, but this is not the correct location. You must Copy and paste
\\FS-HSG-Archive.housing.wisc.edu\archives into the file path bar of Explorer and hit Enter. Select the correct folder (This should be the user’s NetID).
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Select the correct archive, select Open.
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The Archive will open in Outlook. It will be accessible at the end of user’s mailboxes list.
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General Archive Info:
The archive is only accessible in Outlook from a hosing workstation. The archive will not be available from a user’s IPad/iPhone or the Outlook Web App. (mail.housing.wisc.edu/owa/)
When using Outlook and the archive is open searching in Outlook will search the archive.