RodBarnes

My experience with using Outlook 2007 with Home/Student Office 2007 was that it worked fine. I encountered no issues with it at all. I had purchased the Home/Student and installed it first. Only later did I purchase and install Outlook 2007. So I don't expect you'll have any issues doing the same thing. The fastest way to transfer the data would be to install Outlook 2007 on the W7 computer, copy over the PST file from your XP computer, and then use the 'File -> Import -> From File...' to import the data from that PST.

I found a way to get there but I ended up following the same model I've read about in other articles (like this one) on patching the WinXP schtasks. I determined that the correct location for the Win2003 schtasks is 0116B0. Then I used the same steps as described in those articles to patch the value from 75 to EB. Works great! I thought it might be educational to others if I included the steps I took to figure out the location: Opened the WinXP schtasks.exe in PEExplorer and viewed the assembler. Identified the location in the assembly that represents the changed byte identified in other articles and resulting difference in the code. I noted that the change simply makes it a jmp (Jump) instead of jnz (JumpNotZero) so it ignores the version comparison. I followed the jump address and found that the subroutine calls VerifyVersionInfoW(). Opened the Win2003 schtasks.exe in PEExplorer and viewed the assembler. I searched for subroutines that call VerifyVersionInfoaW(). I found two of them. I searched for references to those subroutines looking for calls/jumps. I found only one where it followed a test of eax,eax just as was done in the WinXP assembler. Based upon this, I identified the address and then used a hex-editor to patch the byte from 75 to EB.

I followed your steps but was unsuccessful. Like you, I've successfully patched a WinXP version following instructions found here and it worked on W2K. But I need the /ET and /DU options available from the W2K3 version. So I tried your steps but nothing happens. I changed to 01 to 00 and then ran CheckSum.exe to fix the PE header but when I execute schtasks it just goes back to the command prompt. I'm using the same schtasks.exe from Windows 2003 SP2 as you listed. Any ideas?