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Under the Outlook menu, you will find two different Outlook options: Mobile Outlook Express and a second submenu for the Outlook included with the Microsoft Office package. You may use the features corresponding to your configuration as they correspond to your installation.

The Outlook features enable you to synchronize important Outlook information, such as your emails, contact information, and calendars between two computers. With these features, you can also carry this information with you and have access to it using other computers, such as accessing your stored Outlook information in Internet cafes.

The backup feature is an additional feature. With your biometric stick, you can also create backups of your Outlook information simply and securely.

Outlook Express

The quantity of features in Outlook Express is intended for typical private usage. It does not have any Groupware and Unified-Messaging features, in contrast with Outlook, however can access news features. Outlook Express is present with most versions of Microsoft Windows as a feature. Normally, Outlook Express is only used when Microsoft Office has not been installed. Until now, Microsoft Office has included Outlook.

The Outlook Express features made available in this application automatically backup the entire Outlook Express database. When the data is restored, the entire database is recreated. Selective backup and restoration is only possible with Outlook. With Outlook Express, the complete contents of the profile are backed up and restored.

Backup to USB Stick

In order to be able to backup data from Outlook Express, the corresponding account must be selected first.

You may, of course, select multiple accounts, if such exist. By clicking the Create Backup button, the backup process is started and saved to the USB stick.

Caution: Please note that your backup is only protected from access by third parties when you have created it on an encrypted drive. For more details, read the Encrypted Drives section.

Restoring and Managing Backups

Of course, at some point a backup may need to be restored. To do this, select the corresponding backup and restore it by clicking the Restore button.

Backups that are no longer needed can be simply deleted by selecting the backup and then clicking the Delete button.

Outlook Express can also be comfortably started using the Run Outlook Express button.

This, of course, assumes that Outlook Express has been installed.

Microsoft Office Outlook

Outlook is primarily the client for Exchange Server, however, it may also be used without Exchange Server.

Create & Synchronize

In order to be able to backup data from Outlook, the corresponding profile to be backed up must be selected first. This can be done with the help of the Add Profiles button.

The screen, which is then opened, offers a selection of profiles on the left side for synchronization. On the right side, the determination is made whether this process involves a new backup or a pre-existing, which may have been created by another computer.

The profile is added to the list of profiles to be backed up by clicking the OK button.

A “Profile Pair” refers to the connection between your biometric USB stick and an Outlook profile. If you use several Outlook profiles (on various computers, for example), then you can create several profile pairs.

The direction of object synchronization is determined with the help of the Sync. Rules control. If both direction simultaneously is selected then missing objects on both sides will be exchanged.

Overwriting Outlook Information

With the help of the Add Profiles button, existing Outlook backups can overwrite the local Outlook information on other computers. To do this, simply select the corresponding backup from the USB stick. The name of the computer that created the backup is displayed in parenthesis (in this example, VM-D2-WV-32-UO).