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If you want to recover all your PIM assets (Personal information management) including mails, calendars, contacts, tasks, etc. The only way is to use Microsoft Outlook version 2007 or 2010. Your Office 365 trial includes an Office Pro Plus license that you can use for this purpose:
1. Associate a trial Office license to your account in Office 365
2. Download and Install Office 2010
3. Download Hotmail connector for Outlook
4. Install the Outlook Connector for Hotmail
5. Create an Outlook profile with NO mail account
6. Start Outlook with NO mail account and the connector will ask to connect to your Hotmail (OLSB) mailbox.
7. Download all your mailbox content (it can take a while)
8. Export the root folder to a .PST file and check the “include subfolders” option.
9. Add your Office 365 mail account
10. Select your Office 365 mailbox root then import your previously created .PST file with default options
11. CRITICAL: Wait until Outlook status display “All folders are up to date”. If you see “This folder is up to date”, it means your mailbox is NOT complete.
Of course, you can use our service to process all your mailboxes.