<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862</id><updated>2012-02-16T05:35:15.601-08:00</updated><category term='ost pst tool'/><category term='convert ost pst'/><category term='ost to pst conversion'/><category term='convert ost2pst'/><category term='convert encrypted ost to pst'/><category term='ost recovery software'/><category term='ost to pst'/><category term='ost topst converter'/><category term='ost 2 pst conversion'/><category term='ost file errors'/><category term='outlook ost pst'/><category term='recover ost file'/><category term='ost pst converter'/><category term='outlook ost recovery'/><category term='convert ost to pst'/><category term='ost 2 pst converter'/><category term='convert ost'/><category term='ost2pst converter'/><category term='exchange in recovery mode'/><category term='convert outlook ost to pst'/><category term='exchange mailbox'/><category term='ostpst'/><category term='ostto pst conversion software'/><category term='mailbox deleted'/><category term='ost pst conversion'/><category term='exchange ost recovery'/><category term='convert ost to pst 2007'/><category term='ost pst'/><category term='ost to pst conversion tool'/><category term='ost to pst conversion software'/><category term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>OST PST Converter</title><subtitle type='html'>OST PST Converter is an OST file recovery tool, convert inaccessible Outlook OST file to PST file. Able to convert password protected or encrypted OST to PST file.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-6142917770702151800</id><published>2012-02-16T00:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-16T00:43:37.913-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outlook ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost recovery software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>Troubleshooting Outlook OST Error 'Errors have been detected In the File Outlook.ost'</title><content type='html'>For a real time collaborative messaging environment Microsoft Exchange Servers are deployed by end number of business enterprises all over the map. What Exchange administrators realize is that any sort of malfunction or Exchange Server failure can result in downtime that can prove to be disastrous for the organization. Even at the time of maintenance or upgrading the server to a higher version would require the Exchange to be brought down making all the user data inaccessible for the time being. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a business enterprise it can be critical and lead to a great loss. Fortunately, Exchange OST files (Offline Storage Table) are available that can allow the Exchange users to work in the offline mode and serve as the replicas of user mailboxes stored on the local machine. This makes it possible for the Exchange administrators to bring down the server for maintenance or any other purpose without disabling all the access to the user's mailbox data. Once the Exchange Server is back online, the OST files synchronize with it and whatever work has been done offline gets updated onto the server mailboxes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A banal error message encountered at the time when the Exchange OST file is accessed is: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Errors have been detected In the File Outlook.ost” &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you come across the aforementioned error message you loose access to emails, attachments, appointments, calendar entries, notes, tasks and journals. The appearance of this error clearly means that the Exchange OST file has become corrupt and no matter how many attempts are made to access the file, it would remain futile leading to cardinal data loss. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolve: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OST file corruption can result due to multifarious factors such as a virus attack, oversized OST, OS malfunction, hardware and software issues. Whenever a user is struck by the bolt of OST file corruption, the primary resolve turns out to be OST Recovery using the inbuilt utility &lt;b&gt;Inbox Repair Tool&lt;/b&gt; (Scanost). Scanost.exe is the free utility by Microsoft that scans and repairs the corrupt OST file by completely restructuring the file and removing all the corrupt or unreadable items. This sometimes removes vital data from the OST file. Additionally, Scanost is not able to repair the OST file under severe cases of corruption. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best resolve for OST file corruption is to devoir a professional third party &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/outlook-ost-recovery.php"&gt;OST Recovery Software&lt;/a&gt; that can successfully recover all the user data from the severely corrupt or damaged OST by using adavanced scans and mechanisms. One such powerful tool is “&lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST Converter&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;”. This adroit software recovers user mailbox data such as emails, attachments, calendar, contacts, notes, tasks, To-do lists and journals from the corrupt OST file by converting &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/"&gt;OST to PST&lt;/a&gt;. The software is built with an interactive interface and comes with a step by step user guide that both regular and savvy Exchange users can operate easily. This preeminent OST Recovery Software is compatible with MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-6142917770702151800?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/6142917770702151800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/6142917770702151800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2012/02/troubleshooting-outlook-ost-error.html' title='Troubleshooting Outlook OST Error &apos;Errors have been detected In the File Outlook.ost&apos;'/><author><name>Stephen Lembert</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12064220793402323077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-5940511807115415314</id><published>2012-02-08T19:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-08T19:12:07.305-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outlook ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost recovery software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>Resolving Outlook OST accessibility issues owing to RPC Connectivity</title><content type='html'>Microsoft Exchange Server creates OST files in the cached mode that are the exact replicas of server mailboxes but are stored on a user's local computer. These OST files need to synchronize with the Exchange Server in order to reflect all the work done in the offline mode on the actual server mailboxes. Sometimes when the OST file is tried to be accessed it returns the following error message:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;b&gt;The name could not be resolved. The Microsoft Exchange address book was unable to logon to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer.&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Root of the problem:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The aforestated error is the result of one or more missing/corrupt RPC registry entries. RPCs (Remote Procedure Call) protocol registry keys are deployed by Microsoft Outlook to make calls to the network. RPCs permit users to send calls to many different protocol stacks, the most common one being TCP/IP. If one or more of these registry keys are missing, Outlook fails to establish a connection with the Exchange Server. Moreover, in the absence of required RPC entries Exchange Services are not registered to respond to client requests. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolve:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To identify and troubleshoot the RPC issues RPC Dump can be used. The three most essential RPC components required by Outlook to connect successfully are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1.The endpoint mapper&lt;br /&gt;2.Exchange Information Store service with the Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) of a4f1db00-ca47-1067-b31e-00dd010662da.&lt;br /&gt;3.The Name Service Provider Interface (NSPI) with the UUID of f5cc5a18-4264-101a-8c59-08002b2f8426.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;RPC Dump&lt;/b&gt; should be run through the following command prompts: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;rpcdump.exe /i &gt; rpcdump.txt&lt;br /&gt;rpcdump.exe /p &gt; rpcdump.txt&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to restore the missing RPC registry values follow these steps:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1.Verify registry entries &lt;br /&gt;2.Verify the version of the DLL file&lt;br /&gt;3.Remove and reinstall TCP/IP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this is still not able to resolve the issue, then the OST file has become corrupt and needs to be recovered by &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/"&gt;OST to PST&lt;/a&gt; Conversion. Myriad OST errors are encountered owing to corrupt or orphaned Outlook OST files. The only way for efficacious &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/outlook-ost-recovery.php"&gt;Outlook OST Recovery&lt;/a&gt; is through reliable third party tools. One such sought after tool is “&lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST Converter&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stellar is a leading name in the world of data recovery and this powerful utility can recover all the Outlook OST file data into an importable PST file for MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. The demo version of the software is available for free download and offers a clear preview of the recoverable items in a three view structure. This is an adroit tool that can recover vital user mailbox data by successful conversion from &lt;b&gt;OST to PST&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-5940511807115415314?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/5940511807115415314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/5940511807115415314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2012/02/resolving-outlook-ost-accessibility.html' title='Resolving Outlook OST accessibility issues owing to RPC Connectivity'/><author><name>Stephen Lembert</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12064220793402323077</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-7610865361472044067</id><published>2012-01-19T22:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-19T22:03:49.836-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outlook ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert outlook ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>It is feasible to recover data from a corrupt or damaged Outlook OST file</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;MS Exchange provides users an option to work offline and access their mailbox data even in the absence of a connection using the ‘Cached Exchange’ mode. These changes are automatically synchronized when a connection is made to the Exchange server. If Outlook synchronization with the Exchange server fails, you may lose all the valuable piece of work that was done offline. As a consequence, you could face serious data loss. This usually happens when your Outlook offline folders (.ost) file is damaged. An OST integrity check tool can be used for repairing the corrupt OST file. However, if the problem persists, you can easily convert your OST to PST using a reliable third-party utility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;For instance, you use MS Outlook 2002. When you try to synchronize your OST file (that has crossed the size limitation of 1.82 GB) with the Exchange Server, you may receive the following error message on your screen:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;''Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x00040820): Errors in background synchronization. In most cases, further information is available in a synchronization log in the Deleted items folder. ''&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Deleted Items folder of Exchange Server mailbox and OST file do not show the synchronization log.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Why an error is occurring?&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Above error message is caused because in Outlook 2002 the size limit of an Outlook OST file is 1.82 GB. As the OST file has crossed the predefined size limit, it may be corrupt.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How an error can be solved?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;The following methods will help you resolve this problem:  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Permanently delete all e-mail  messages from any server based e-mail folders that are arranged to  be in synchronization with the Outlook OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Transfer the data from any synchronized folder to a  non-synchronized folder on the Exchange Server.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Transfer and permanent deletion of data from a synchronized  folder to an Outlook PST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;However, if you are still facing problems, you need to take help of a third party &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/" target="_blank"&gt;OST to PST converter&lt;/a&gt;. These software are capable of efficiently converting all orphaned or corrupt OST files to equivalent PST files. They can safely restore various OST file components, such as emails, calendar items, contacts, etc.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST Converter&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a professional tool that effectively repairs damaged OST files and converts them to corresponding PST files. The dexterous &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/outlook-ost-recovery.php" target="_blank"&gt;Outlook OST Recovery&lt;/a&gt; software supports MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. Moreover, it is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-7610865361472044067?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/7610865361472044067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/7610865361472044067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2012/01/it-is-feasible-to-recover-data-from.html' title='It is feasible to recover data from a corrupt or damaged Outlook OST file'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-7095047928410798998</id><published>2012-01-10T00:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T00:08:42.624-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outlook ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert outlook ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost2pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>Consequences of an orphaned OST file and reliable OST to PST Conversion tools</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;Sometimes, it happens that while using MS-Outlook you get stuck into a serious problem of damaged Outlook OST files. Corrupt or damaged Outlook files are an outcome of Exchange server crash, hardware failures, virus infection, oversized PST etc. In other cases, the OST file associated with a user mailbox may become orphaned as a result of user deletion, mailbox deletion, Exchange server maintenance, etc. In such situations, it becomes hard to retrieve your precious data from an orphaned or corrupt OST. However, if your OST file is corrupt, you can use the built-in ‘Scanost.exe’ tool to resolve this problem. But, due to its limitation, the tool might not be able to repair badly corrupt OST file. In such circumstances, you can go for &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/outlook-ost-recovery.php" target="_blank"&gt;Outlook OST Recovery&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;using a reliable third-party utility.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;For instance-Suppose, you have an Outlook OST file that has become unusable after the deletion of the user mailbox. You have some other account that permits you to login to the old user profile directly. Well, you face no problem while loading Outlook, but the embedded permissions on the file do not allow you to access emails and other items in the file and you receive the following error message on your screen:  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Attempting to view permissions in Outlook: Some permissions could not be displayed. Permission information for this folder could not be accessed.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"&gt;After receiving this error, you will lose access to all your vital emails, contacts, appointments, tasks, etc. The above error may also occur if the OST file is severely corrupt. In order to regain access to your lost data, you should opt for a third-party OST integrity check utility.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"&gt; However, if the above resolution fails, it is advisable that you should take help of a third party &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/" target="_blank"&gt;OST to PST&lt;/a&gt; conversion tool. With the help of such tools, you can easily restore all your mailbox items, such as contacts, appointments, contacts, journal, tasks, events, calendar-entries, and more. These tools are specifically designed for the non-technical users and have a self-descriptive interface.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 0.48cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST converter &lt;/b&gt;is a comprehensive tool that efficiently converts orphaned or corrupt OST files to PST files. The software retains formatting of all RTF and HTML messages. Moreover, it is compatible with compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-7095047928410798998?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/7095047928410798998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/7095047928410798998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2012/01/consequences-of-orphaned-ost-file-and.html' title='Consequences of an orphaned OST file and reliable OST to PST Conversion tools'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-490156954671210515</id><published>2011-12-20T19:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T19:32:26.073-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion tool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst converter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert outlook ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion software'/><title type='text'>Recover lost data by simply performing the OST to PST conversion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Presence of corruption in OST file may occur due to various reasons. Whatever may be the reason? Corruption of Outlook OST file is a serious concern which no one can ignore as it can pose major issues later on. The major problem that occurs after corruption of Outlook OST file is inaccessibility of OST data. OST file contains data of objects, such as contacts, e-mail messages, attachments, appointments, tasks, notes, journal, events, etc. Important e-mail operations cannot be carried out at the same time. These all are the difficulties that directly result after OST file corruption. Still, there is no need to be hopeless. Today, several third party tools are available in the market that are enough capable to perform &lt;b&gt;OST to PST&lt;/b&gt; conversion. These tools have been specially designed to perform conversion of OST data into PST.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Below stated are some symptoms that are observed when synchronization of Outlook OST file cannot be carried out easily with Exchange Server:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0.64cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Appearance of several error  messages at a time when Outlook OST file in Outlook is synchronized  with your mailbox on a server that is executing MS-Exchange Server.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Absence of some Outlook items,  such as e-mail messages, appointment, contacts, tasks, journal,  events, notes, posted items and documents from Outlook OST file or  from the mailbox once a synchronization of OST file and mailbox is  made.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cause:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Reason behind the occurrence of above mentioned symptoms is a corruption of Outlook OST file. Some other issues related to synchronization of OST file is also the result of OST corruption.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Solution&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;For solving the above stated problematic situation, you have to follow the below stated measures. These measures include:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Use of Scanost.exe tool: Outlook  versions like Outlook 2003 and 2007 make use of an OST Integrity  Check tool to verify the inconsistencies contained in Outlook OST  file. But, Outlook 2010 does not provide any tool to solve errors or  inconsistencies in Outlook OST file as of earlier versions. However,  if there is an issue with a specific folder, then it is suggested to  resync the folder in MS- Outlook 2010. Below stated are the steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0.64cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Select Properties by doing a   right click on the folder.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Select &lt;b&gt;Clear Offline items&lt;/b&gt;,   and then select &lt;b&gt;OK&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Select the &lt;b&gt;Send/Receive&lt;/b&gt;   tab on the Outlook 2010 ribbon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Select Update Folder.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;However, if the problem still remains the same, then it is good to opt for a third party &lt;b&gt;OST PST&lt;/b&gt; converter tool. Yes, number of third party software are easily available online. The best thing is that a facility of a free demo version of the software is available on Internet. You just have to download a demo version of the software. Demo versions help you to evaluate the features of the product easily.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;One such tool is &lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop &lt;/b&gt;that is specially designed to &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/" target="_blank"&gt;convert OST to PST&lt;/a&gt;. Once OST PST conversion takes place by this tool, data of Outlook OST file can be read into PST format of Microsoft Outlook. Developed with an interactive user interface, the tool is easy to operate. There is no need to have a sound technical knowledge for using this tool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-490156954671210515?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/490156954671210515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/490156954671210515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/12/recover-lost-data-by-simply-performing.html' title='Recover lost data by simply performing the OST to PST conversion'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-8594736947274214408</id><published>2011-12-14T19:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-14T19:47:35.996-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert outlook ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost pst'/><title type='text'>Bid adieu to the crunch of OST file corruption with OST to PST Converter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Microsoft Exchange Servers efficaciously handle business emails and are put into service in various corporate sectors. Professional users are cognizant about the fact that Exchange Servers are not free from faults. By the same token, some users would require to access their mailboxes and data from multiple devices and locations. It is not expedient that accessibility to Exchange Server can be maintained every time, everywhere.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;As a resolve, Microsoft offered Exchange users a perk to work on their emails and Outlook items even in the absence of connectivity with the Exchange Server. OST files are Offline Storage Table files that are the clones of an Exchange user mailbox and are stored on the local machine. Whatever changes are made to the user mailbox or emails in the OST file get updated on the Exchange Server mailbox by synchronizing the .ost files with the server.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;OST Corruption&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Though, it does seem like a piece of cake to work both on-line and off-line on MS Outlook without the shackles of device or location dependency, there is a flip side to the coin as well. The OST files succumb to corruption owing to multifarious reasons like:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hardware failure (disk crash)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Power failure (dirty shutdown)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Abnormal Outlook termination&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Virus attack or Trojan  malfunction&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Errors during synchronization&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;These factors forestall the automatic synchronization of Outlook OST file with the MS Exchange Server. Such a situation of .ost file corruption calls for OST repair using Microsoft in-built utility '&lt;b&gt;Scanost.exe&lt;/b&gt;'. This utility is apt at repairing the .ost file in major cases of corruption; however, Scanost sometimes begets a situation of data loss, as it completely restructures the OST file and removes the items it fails to recognize. Therefore, it is admonished to keep a backup copy of the original OST file before running any utility to repair it.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;As Scanost falls short to repair the OST file at times of severe corruption, a third party tool to &lt;b&gt;convert OST to PST&lt;/b&gt; becomes imperative. Copious &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/" target="_blank"&gt;OST to PST Converter&lt;/a&gt; tools are available in the market that successfully recovers all the vital data from the corrupt OST files. Veracious third party software for OST to PST Conversion is “&lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST Converter&lt;/b&gt;”.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;A staunch solution for OST corruption, this tool restores the original RTF and HTML formatting of messages. Prior to recovery, this software offers a preview of the user mailbox and items in a tree-view format. The newly created PST file can be imported into Outlook to regain access to the user mailbox and data. Crafted on the grounds of efficiency and user-friendliness, this software uses advanced mechanisms to recover data and supports MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-8594736947274214408?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/8594736947274214408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/8594736947274214408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/12/bid-adieu-to-crunch-of-ost-file.html' title='Bid adieu to the crunch of OST file corruption with OST to PST Converter'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-4376442325316765195</id><published>2011-11-29T00:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-29T00:37:47.320-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>Want to access your orphaned OST files? Convert OST to PST</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;When you try to access Exchange server 2000 or 2003 mailbox through MS Outlook e-mail client application, you fail to log on to Exchange server database and one of the following error messages  appears on your screen:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;“&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Unable to display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook could not access the specified folder location. The operation failed.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The above mentioned error occurs in the Active Directory directory service when the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Create named properties in the Information Store&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; permission is not assigned to the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Everyone&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; group to the CN=Configuration, DC=Domain, DC=com, CN=Services, CN=Microsoft Exchange, CN=Organization object. A second possibility could be the corruption in .ost file or Outlook has some synchronization problem with Microsoft Exchange Server.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;First, let us go back and find out more about Exchange Servers and OST files.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In a corporate environment, MS Exchange Servers are deployed as an efficacious means to manage business communication through emails. In the absence of Exchange Servers, MS Outlook users work on their mailboxes using OST files. The .ost files are exact replicas of their Exchange Server mailboxes. Whenever, the connection to the MS Exchange Server is re-established, the OST files  synchronize with the user mailboxes on the server and all the changes are reflected in the current mailboxes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;But what happens when the same OST file fails to synchronize with the Exchange Server? The user mailbox data and all the changes made to it are rendered inaccessible for future use. When the user mailbox becomes permanently unavailable, the OST file becomes orphaned. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Causes of OST file corruption&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;OST files become orphaned/corrupt pertaining to multitudinous factors, namely:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Network connection failure&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Abrupt system shutdown due to  power failure (dirty shutdown)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Bad sectors on the hard disk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Errors during synchronization &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;  &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A virus attack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Both these hardware and software reasons forfend the automatic synchronization of OST files with MS Exchange Server. Outlook users are often left gaping helplessly due to loss of paramount data when the OST files are corrupted. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The silver lining in such a situation, is the recovey of all the user data from the OST file in a usable form. Liberating the vital emails and user mailbox data from corrupt/orphaned OST files is a third party &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;OST to PST Conversion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; software. This is the best solution to convert .ost file to .pst and regain access to all the valuable data that is left on the OST file. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The internet is jam-packed with teeming &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/" target="_blank"&gt;OST to PST Converter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; tools, that recover emails, attachments, drafts, contacts and journal entries etc. from the OST file in the form of a usable PST file that can be easily imported into Outlook. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;A veracious OST to PST conversion utility is “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST Converter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;”. This software is a top-notch, power packed solution that successfully converts .ost files into .pst. This tool allows to perform selective recovery and the demo version offers a preview of the user mailbox and it components before the actual recovery. Exhibiting a vast array of compatibility, this software supports MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-4376442325316765195?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4376442325316765195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4376442325316765195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/11/want-to-access-your-orphaned-ost-files.html' title='Want to access your orphaned OST files? Convert OST to PST'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-9107390261073474720</id><published>2011-11-23T01:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-23T01:43:07.122-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost2pst converter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost 2 pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost 2 pst converter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost2pst'/><title type='text'>Start trusting on a third party tool for successful conversion of OST file</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;It is a true fact that without a proper Internet connection with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook OST file cannot be synchronized. But, in many cases due to various reasons like, down Exchange Server, OST file corruption etc. synchronization of Outlook OST file cannot be carried out. Non-synchronization of Outlook OST file may result into hectic situations. The worst thing is that non-synchronization leads to inaccessibility of data. Well, inaccessible data can easily be restored from a backup. In the absence of backup also, there is no need to worry. A third party &lt;b&gt;OST to PST&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;converter &lt;/b&gt;tool is a best option to use in such a pathetic situation.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;For better understanding of the above issue, let us study this issue in detail. A friend of mine has a laptop with her. In that laptop, Outlook OST files are there. Laptop when used in office gets connected to Exchange. But, she is not aware about the fact that without the connection with Exchange, OST files cannot be used. She was quite disturbed after knowing that she has Outlook OST files but she cannot use the data contained within them without the synchronization of OST with MS Exchange Server.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;The only way left with her to get out of this situation is through recovering the Outlook OST files. After the recovery of Outlook OST files, she has an option to &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/ost2pst.php"&gt;convert OST to PST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;hrough third party tools. Ample of third party tools are available in the market that can perform the conversion of Outlook OST file within a small fraction of time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Through Internet, she came to know about &lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix OST to PST Converter&lt;/b&gt; tool. This third party tool is fully capable of converting an Outlook OST file into a usable PST file. After conversion, data of Outlook OST file, such as contacts, attachments, appointments, calendar-entries, tasks, events, are recovered within a short period of time. Developed with an interactive user interface, the tool is easy to understand. A well described user manual and installation guide come along with the software that help to perform successful &lt;b&gt;OST to PST &lt;/b&gt;conversion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-9107390261073474720?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/9107390261073474720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/9107390261073474720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/11/start-trusting-on-third-party-tool-for.html' title='Start trusting on a third party tool for successful conversion of OST file'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-4884901804636115297</id><published>2011-11-13T21:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-13T21:33:23.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How to access OST file when Exchange Server is not available</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;  &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;    &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; &lt;!--  @page { margin: 2cm }  P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;No doubt, Outlook is a very efficient e-mail client and personal information manager. But, some times it may show some error messages that halt your work. Consider a practical scenario where in you want to connect/access some OST file with Outlook. But it fails with the below error messages:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The file C:\Documents and Settings\%UserName%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost cannot be accessed. You must connect to your Microsoft Exchange Server computer at least once before you can use your offlline folder file.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;This situation arises when you try to access some OST file for which Exchange Server account is not available or the Outlook profile that created the OST file is being altered.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;If you had altered the Outlook profile you can resolve the error by recreating the OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Steps to recreate OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Quit  Outlook and all mail enabled applications.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Rename  old OST file for back-up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Open  Outlook and connect it with the Exchange Server.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;New OST file will be created automatically.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;But, in case the Exchange Server account is not available for the OST file (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;this may happen in case where in you had left your job and have no rights to access Exchange Server mailbox&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;). You need to convert OST file to PST file to access its contents. There will be two cases and you can recover OST file accordingly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Case1:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; You have access to the system on which you were accessing your mails and the Outlook profile that created the OST file is not being altered. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;You can Export the OST file to PST file using Import/Export function from File menu of Outlook by opening Outlook in off-line mode.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;You can also try system restore. Go back a few days and restore OST to PST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Case2:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; If you can not access the system on which the Outlook profile for the OST file is available and you only have the OST file along with you. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;In this case you need to perform manual OST PST conversion for which you need to use third party &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/"&gt;convert .ost to .pst&lt;/a&gt; tool. After successfully converting .ost to .pst file, import the resulting PST file in Outlook. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-4884901804636115297?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4884901804636115297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4884901804636115297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-to-access-ost-file-when-exchange.html' title='How to access OST file when Exchange Server is not available'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-8961231518236115818</id><published>2011-10-12T23:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T00:06:43.444-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst converter'/><title type='text'>Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop for OST to PST conversion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;Corruption of an Outlook OST file is fairly a common occurrence. OST file goes into a corruption state due to various factors. These factors include, unexpected shutdown of Microsoft Outlook, malicious virus, synchronization error, power outage, network connection failure, failure related to data storage, etc. All these reasons directly result into corruption of OST file. Anyways, the bad effect of the OST corruption is the inaccessibility of data. It becomes impossible to use an Outlook application as OST file is an important part of it. Even after knowing this bitter fact, Outlook application is used by large number of users. It is true that OST file is prone to corruption, but it is possible to overcome the bad effect that is inaccessibility of data with the aid of a latest backup.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;However, if backup is not updated or maintained, then a help from a reliable third party tool proves beneficial. Ample of software are available in the market. Out of them, &lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix Mailbox&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Exchange Desktop&lt;/b&gt; is one of them.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;This tool is ruckus free solution to &lt;a href="http://osttopstconverter.stellarservertools.com/" target="_blank"&gt;convert OST to PST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;within small amount of time.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;The tool provides a facility of a free demo version for the evaluation of the overall features of the tool. In demo version, all the recovered data of OST objects, such as contacts, attachments, appointments, journal, tasks, events, calendar-entries, etc can be previewed. But, it does not permit to save the recovered data. This facility proves quite good especially at times of doing selection of any third party tool. Demo version is the best option to gain some knowledge about the product and its features.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;Some of the &lt;b&gt;key features of Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop&lt;/b&gt; are as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: -1.27cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;The tool  recovers OST objects and performs conversion of OST data into PST.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;It employs  advanced scan if OST data cannot be recovered through normal scan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;It performs  restoration of the formatting of RTF and HTML messages.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;Developed  with interactive user interface, the tool is easy to operate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;It performs  recovery of OST files created in MS-Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002,  and 2000.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-right: -1.27cm;"&gt;It works  well with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-8961231518236115818?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/8961231518236115818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/8961231518236115818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/10/stellar-phoenix-mailbox-exchange.html' title='Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop for OST to PST conversion'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-1162875748290584851</id><published>2011-10-07T00:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-19T03:54:01.810-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst conversion'/><title type='text'>Problems after non-synchronization of Outlook OST file and its solution</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;An Outlook file is the most responsible reason for the Microsoft Outlook application to gain a remarkable performance. An Outlook OST file permits you to access the Outlook data even if there is unreliable Internet connectivity. As soon as connection with Exchange Server is made, whole data of an OST file gets synchronized easily. But, if due to any reasons, connection with Exchange Server cannot be made, then non-synchronization of OST data takes place and results into inaccessibility of data. So, in such situation a help from a third party tool to perform OST PST conversion becomes only hope. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In respect to above issue, consider a practical scenario. An error message gets received on the computer screen when starting Microsoft Outlook application. That, error message appears to be like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Cannot open your default email folders. The file xxxx.ost is not an offline folder file.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘xxxx.ost’ refers to the name of the OST file created by Microsoft Outlook when it is working with Exchange mailbox offline. It might be possible that you may not be familiar with the file as it is created implicitly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cause:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above error message is caused because of the following two reasons. These reasons include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corrupt or damaged Outlook OST file, and cannot be identified by Microsoft Outlook. This is the reason, Outlook throws the above stated error message.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;An Outlook OST file is linked with a mailbox on an Exchange Server. If due to any of the reasons, MS-Outlook fails to access the linked Exchange mailbox or start synchronizing the mailbox with the offline folders in the Outlook OST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Solution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For solving the above stated erroneous situation, and to access the inaccessible data first of all, you have to follow the below steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Find the erroneous Outlook OST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recover the offline data in the Outlook OST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perform backup of an Outlook OST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perform removal and change the name of the problematic original Outlook OST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solve the error.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, if no proper results get found, then it is advised for you to opt for a third party OST to PST converter tool. The main job of these third party tools is to convert OST to PST. One good thing is that there is no need to have sound technical skills for doing conversion. These third party tools have read-only nature, and effective conversion capabilities. Developed with simple graphical user interface, this tool is simple and easy to operate. One of the tools that have been specially designed for conversion of Outlook OST data into PST is a Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop. Results produced are quite good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://business.hughesnet.com/"&gt;satellite internet providers&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://government.hughes.com/by-need/digital-messaging"&gt;digital signage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-1162875748290584851?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1162875748290584851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1162875748290584851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/10/problems-after-non-synchronization-of.html' title='Problems after non-synchronization of Outlook OST file and its solution'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-6592190591840307986</id><published>2011-09-26T23:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-26T23:32:17.078-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost pst'/><title type='text'>How to Resolve Unable to Expand the Folders error in Outlook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Outlook uses two types of files to store mailbox data on your local system. One is the OST file(offline storage table) other is the PST file(personal storage table). OST file is used when you configure Outlook to work in offline mode. All offline work is being stored in OST file and gets synchronized with the Exchange Server when Internet connection resumes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some times while synchronization you may get the error message:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. Errors could have been detected in the file xxxx.ost. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting this error means your there is some issue with your OST file and it could not get properly synchronized with the Exchange Server. The reason behind OST file corruption may be one of the following: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;OST gets infected by a virus.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corruption of Exchange Server Database&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Exchange Server crash&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deletion of mailbox from the Exchange Server&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution:&lt;/b&gt; As stated in the error message, quit all mail enabled applications that can use OST file. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Find the OST file : A detailed explanation of where to find Outlook OST file&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Run the Inbox Repair tool (scanpst.exe) to repair the OST file.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recover the repaired items.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In some scenarios scanpst.exe does not repair ost fie this is due to the fact that this tool does not work in complex cases of OST file corruption. If this method fails you should try third party ost recovery tool that convert ost to pst file. Such tools are capable of converting ost to pst file even in highest degree of OST file corruption and able to recover all components of .ost file such as emails, attachments, contacts, calendar entries, notes tasks etc. Once you get the converted PST file you can save it to any disk or storage media and can open it directly with Outlook. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-6592190591840307986?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/6592190591840307986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/6592190591840307986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-resolve-unable-to-expand-folders.html' title='How to Resolve Unable to Expand the Folders error in Outlook'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-2244229543440621696</id><published>2011-08-15T22:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T23:03:06.366-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost file errors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost pst'/><title type='text'>How OST to PST conversion tool helps you?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;'Cached Exchange Mode' comes into the list of main features of Microsoft Outlook. Through this feature, you can work even in offline mode. A local copy of MS-Exchange mailbox is created that is used in Cached Exchange mode. This local copy of Outlook permits you to work in offline mode. Whole data of Outlook components can't be accessed. Any changes done in the Outlook components get automatically reflected in online mode, once a connection is made with the Exchange Server. But at times,  synchronization of OST file with Exchange Server fails. Thus, overall data of OST file becomes unapproachable and you come across a huge data loss situations. In order to overcome such situations, you have an option of a third party OST to PST conversion tools. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below mentioned are the few cases in which synchronization cannot be carried out or fails. These are as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corruption of Exchange database.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deletion of mailbox. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deletion of mailbox account.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corruption of mailbox due to corrupt Exchange Server.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Updation of user profile on the Exchange Server.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corruption of mailbox because of malicious virus.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this section of article, let us study that why it becomes necessary to convert OST file to a PST file?&lt;br /&gt;As discussed earlier, that due to some reasons, proper synchronization cannot be carried out. Hence, data of Outlook OST file becomes totally unapproachable. In order to gain access of inaccessible data, a need arises to convert OST data to PST file. This conversion can be done effectively with the help of a third party &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stellarinfo.com/exchange-ost-recovery.htm"&gt;convert ost pst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several third party tools are available. Each software has some different feature that makes it unique from others. Such tools are readily available on Internet. Just make a simple search. It is a better alternative rather than facing data loss problem. Once a conversion is done, whole data of Outlook OST file, such as contacts, attachments, appointments, journal, tasks, events, and e-mail messages become accessible. For using these tools, you do not need to have sound technical skills. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop is such a self-explanatory tool that successfully converts OST data into PST within a few simple clicks. OST data remains unaffected after the conversion. It performs the advance scan if the normal scan fails to recover OST data. It can be installed on Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000. The demo version of the tool is available. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-2244229543440621696?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/2244229543440621696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/2244229543440621696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-ost-to-pst-conversion-tool-helps.html' title='How OST to PST conversion tool helps you?'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-5609569925382492396</id><published>2011-04-11T02:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T20:47:00.482-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert encrypted ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost topst converter'/><title type='text'>OST to PST Converter tool for unreadable OST file</title><content type='html'>&lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;At times, synchronization of Outlook with Exchange Server cannot be carried out easily and effectively. Different error messages appear in the application event log containing information about the issues. All the data of Outlook OST file becomes no more readable just because of non-synchronization. The problem is really big and there are numerous factors responsible for the same. Whatever may be the reason, in such situation, the primary concern is to recover the OST data. The best and an easy way is to simply convert OST to PST with the help of any third party ost recovery tool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine a situation, where you face synchronization issues of Outlook and Exchange Server. The Outlook is executing in the cached Exchange mode. You failed to synchronize the OST file with Exchange Server and received the following information in the synchronization log:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“11:45:16 Synchronizer Version 12.0.6300&lt;br /&gt;11:45:16 Synchronizing Mailbox 'USER'&lt;br /&gt;11:45:16 Synchronizing Hierarchy&lt;br /&gt;11:45:16 Synchronizing server changes in folder 'Inbox'&lt;br /&gt;11:45:16 Downloading from server 'EXCHANGESERVER.local'&lt;br /&gt;11:45:16 1 item(s) changed read-state in offline folder&lt;br /&gt;11:45:17 Synchronizing server changes in folder 'Deleted Items'&lt;br /&gt;11:45:17 Downloading from server 'EXCHANGESERVER.local'&lt;br /&gt;11:45:18 Error synchronizing folder&lt;br /&gt;11:45:18 [8004011D-526-80040115-0]&lt;br /&gt;11:45:18 Microsoft Exchange is not available. Either&lt;br /&gt;there are network problems or the Exchange computer is down for maintenance.&lt;br /&gt;11:45:18 Microsoft Exchange Information Store&lt;br /&gt;11:45:18 For more information on this failure, click&lt;br /&gt;the URL below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11:45:18 http://www.microsoft.com/support/pro...00_us.asp?err=...&lt;br /&gt;11:45:19 Error synchronizing folder&lt;br /&gt;11:45:19 [8004011D-526-80040115-0]&lt;br /&gt;11:45:19 Microsoft Exchange is not available. Either&lt;br /&gt;there are&lt;br /&gt;network problems or the Exchange computer is down for maintenance.&lt;br /&gt;11:45:19 Microsoft Exchange Information Store&lt;br /&gt;11:45:19 For more information on this failure, click&lt;br /&gt;the URL below:&lt;br /&gt;11:45:19 http://www.microsoft.com/support/pro...00_us.asp?err=...&lt;br /&gt;11:45:20 Done&lt;br /&gt;11:45:20 Microsoft Exchange offline address book&lt;br /&gt;11:45:20 Download successful&lt;br /&gt;...”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cause:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the causes that are responsible for the occurrence of above error message are as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Unavailability of MS-Exchange.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Issues related to network.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Enabled anti-virus software.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Incorrect profile settings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Corrupt or damaged OST file.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Solution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To overcome such issues, and to access OST data effectively, you are required to follow the below steps:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Be sure about the availability of Microsoft Exchange Server.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Resolve all the issues related to network.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Do not enable anti-virus software.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Correct all the profile settings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"&gt;However, if the same problem still persists, then it is better to opt for a third party &lt;a href="http://convertosttopst.weebly.com/"&gt;convert ost to pst&lt;/a&gt; tool. Such third party tools easily converts OST data into PST. Execution of these tools do not demand sound technical skills and any normal user can operate the tools just by reading the instructions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-5609569925382492396?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/5609569925382492396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/5609569925382492396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/04/ost-to-pst-converter-tool-for.html' title='OST to PST Converter tool for unreadable OST file'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-2093034210523828274</id><published>2011-04-05T21:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T20:56:23.651-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recover ost file'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><title type='text'>Tips to Solve Error: '.ost is already in use by the maximum number of applications'</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Outlook Offline Folder (.ost file) allows users to access Exchange mailbox data even in offline mode and then synchronize the changes at next secure connection with Microsoft Exchange Server. This efficiency of Outlook is quite useful in scenarios of low or inappropriate connectivity. But similar to other files, an OST file can also get corrupt. Such situations necessitate that you either restore from backup or use a Convert OST &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;tool that retains the capability of converting a corrupt OST to PST file and thus recover ost file. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Following is an instance of such probable events in Microsoft Outlook. Consider a user using Microsoft Outlook 2003. At one point of time, it might come across the below error message:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The file  OST_File_Path\outlook.ost is already in use by the maximum number of applications. Close some of the applications, and then try again.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Outlook user receives this error repeatedly.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cause : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;The above error is encountered due to following possible reasons:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;As suggested by error message, Outlook OST file is being accessed by  different applications.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;You are trying to access a corrupted OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Solution : &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Below are the solutions to the above discussed issue:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;If the file is opened by various other proceses, you need to close  those programs. Restarting the computer should completely resolve  this issue, if this is the only reason.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Microsoft Outlook installation includes a utility called OST  Integrity Tool that can be used to correct corruption problems with  OST. To run the tool, follow the below steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Exit Outlook.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Click Start | Run and type the following path in open box:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;drive:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\LocaleID\scanost.exe  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Where, LocaleID is the local identifier of your MS Office installation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Click OK and click 'Scan all  folders'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Select 'Repair errors' check box  and click 'Begin Scan'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;If OST Integrity tool doesn't resolve OST file corruption, you need to use a third party tool that can repair and later &lt;a href="http://convertosttopst.weebly.com/"&gt;Convert OST to PST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;. The file converted in PST can be directly used within Outlook. A &lt;/span&gt;Convert OST &lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;tool is easy to use and can run safe scanning procedures to extract data from Outlook offline folders. &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-2093034210523828274?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/2093034210523828274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/2093034210523828274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/04/resolve-ost-already-in-use-error.html' title='Tips to Solve Error: &apos;.ost is already in use by the maximum number of applications&apos;'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-4502086945770443142</id><published>2011-03-03T00:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T21:03:20.763-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert encrypted ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><title type='text'>How to Convert Encrypted OST file to PST file</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Sometimes we encrypt our OST file with password to authenticate the access to the important or confidential data saved in the OST file. As a particular OST file stores important emails or data and this is the only way to ensure that only authorized users can access and work on the OST file. Sometimes it happens that we encrypt an OST file with a password and forget it when try to access it later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem with the encrypted OST file occurs at the time of performing OST PST conversion. As many of the convert ost to pst tools available are not able to convert the password protected or encrypted Outlook OST to PST file. One should be very careful while using any 3rd party software, it should not intact the original file and demo version should provide the 100% preview of required result with WYSWYG approach in both full and demo version of the software. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stellar Phoenix Convert OST PST&lt;/b&gt; has the resolution of such complexity, as it is an efficient and easy to use tool to convert password protected or encrypted Outlook OST to PST file. Stellar &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost.net/"&gt;Convert OST to PST&lt;/a&gt; tool effectively convert Outlook ost to pst and supports Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2010, 2003, 2002 and compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Related articles&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ostpstconverter.weebly.com/2/post/2011/01/recover-deleted-emails-or-objects-from-exchange-mailbox-convert-outlook-ost-to-pst-file.html"&gt;How to Recover Deleted Emails or objects from Exchange Mailbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-4502086945770443142?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4502086945770443142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4502086945770443142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/03/convert-encrypted-ost-file-to-pst-file.html' title='How to Convert Encrypted OST file to PST file'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-1248682965879054407</id><published>2011-02-01T20:30:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T05:17:46.561-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst converter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange in recovery mode'/><title type='text'>How to Resolve "Exchange is currently in recovery mode"  error</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;MS Exchange Server and MS Outlook collectively provides an efficient and in-demand e-communication environment to the corpoate as well as home users all over the world. But, Instead of globally accepted the occurance of various errors hits the communication channel of the users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider a practicle situation wherein you try to get connect with MS Excahnge Server 2003 via MS Outlook client, but it results an error meassage:&lt;br /&gt;"abode the users"&lt;br /&gt;"Exchange is currently in recovery mode. You can either connect to your Exchange server through the network, work offline, or cancel this logon"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"&gt;Reasons of occurance of above error message :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Cached Exchange Mode is enabled and running&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Client mailbox has been migrated to another Exchange Server version&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;In any of the above situations the authentication key created for the mailbox does not match with the OST file. To resolve this issue perform the following steps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In first case where Cached exchange mode is enabled and running resolve the situation by disabling the Cached Exchange Mode, To disable the Cached Exchange mode, follow the instructions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. Go to Tools menu &amp;gt;&amp;gt;Email Accounts &amp;gt;&amp;gt; View or change existing Email Accounts. Click Next to continue&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. In Outlook processes e-mail for these accounts in the following order list, select the Change option&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 3. Disable the Use Cached Exchange Mode option under Microsoft Exchange Server&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 4. Restart Outlook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case where mailbox has been migrated to another version of server you can resolve the issue by creating new Outlook profile. Follow below mentioned steps to create new Outlook profile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. Go to Control Panel &amp;gt; User Accounts &amp;gt; Mail&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. Select Show Profile, Click Add and type desired profile name and click OK&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 3. Follow on-screen instructions to complete the process&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this case, you can not access your previous mails and other data that is stored in your previous mailbox. To recover and access the emails and data on previous mailbox, you need to convert OST to PST file by using some advanced third party &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost-pst.com/"&gt;ost to pst converter&lt;/a&gt; such as Stellar Phoenix Convert OST PST. This OST to PST tool scan the entire .ost file to repair and convert OST to PST file, the resulting .PST(personal storage) file is directly accessible with Outlook. Convert OST to PST tool is very easy to use and has the ability to convert password protected or encrypted OST file components. The tool is compatible with MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Related articles&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ostpstconverter.weebly.com/2/post/2010/11/resolve-file-ost-is-not-an-offline-folder-file-ost-file-error-convert-ost-to-pst.html"&gt;How to resolve "File *.ost is not an offline folder file." OST file Error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://convert-outlook-ost-to-pst.blogspot.com/2010/11/convert-ost-pst-tool-to-resolve-object.html"&gt;How to resolve "object could not be found" Error&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-1248682965879054407?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1248682965879054407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1248682965879054407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/02/resolve-exchange-is-currently-in.html' title='How to Resolve &quot;Exchange is currently in recovery mode&quot;  error'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-4413950056848568304</id><published>2011-01-03T21:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T21:00:20.500-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst converter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange mailbox'/><title type='text'>How to Resolve synchronization errors after migrating MS-Exchange mailbox</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Migration of Exchange mailbox can be done with the ExProfre.exe tool. But at times, when the ExProfre.exe tool migrates the Exchange Server user profile, it results in numerous synchronization problems. Synchronization error messages appear in the event log. In such pathetic situations, you face problems while converting OST file into PST file. To overcome these situations a third-party &lt;b&gt;OST to PST converter&lt;/b&gt; is needed. With the help of a converter, you are able to convert OST to PST with much ease.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's discuss what kind of synchronization problems occur when you use Exprofre.exe (Exchange Profile Update Tool) to migrate a user profile of Microsoft Exchange Server:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numerous synchronization errors appear on screen. You can see these errors in synchronization log.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Synchronization of organizational forms does not occur. As a result, messages requiring organizational form get displayed without form data.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Synchronization of security settings of MS-Outlook doesn't occur So, if new public folder applies new security settings, then these settings remain unavailable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Synchronization of favorite folders of Public Folder cannot be done. All the Items that are contained in that folder remain unsynchronized.&lt;br /&gt;Synchronization log contains the below events in it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“12:03:52 Synchronizer Version 11.0.6352&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 Synchronizing Mailbox 'move six'&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 Synchronizing Hierarchy&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 Synchronizing server changes in folder 'Outlook 10 Security Settings'&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 Error synchronizing folder&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;[80070057-501-80070057-550]&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The client operation failed.&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For more information on this failure, click the URL below:&lt;br /&gt;12:03:52 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;http://www.microsoft.com/support/prodredirect/outlook2000_us.asp?err=80070057-501-80070057-550&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Synchronizing server changes in folder 'Outlook 10 Security Settings'&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Error synchronizing folder&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;[80070057-501-80070057-550]&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The client operation failed.&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For more information on this failure, click the URL below:&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;http://www.microsoft.com/support/prodredirect/outlook2000_us.asp?err=80070057-501-80070057-550&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Error synchronizing folder&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;[80040115-514-0-5C0]&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Network problems are preventing connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer.&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For more information on this failure, click the URL below:&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;http://www.microsoft.com/support/prodredirect/outlook2000_us.asp?err=80040115-514-0-5c0&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Synchronizing Forms&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Error synchronizing folder&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;[80070057-501-80070057-550]&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The client operation failed.&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;For more information on this failure, click the URL below:&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;http://www.microsoft.com/support/prodredirect/outlook2000_us.asp?err=80070057-501-80070057-550&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Done&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Microsoft Exchange offline address book&lt;br /&gt;12:03:53 Download successful”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Root of the issue:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Above problem occurs due to entryid values. Entyrid values are the values that MS-Outlook application uses to locate public folders. But the values get changed when you migrate mailbox. OST file do not get updated using ExProfre.exe tool. Thus, new entry id values are not found by the OST files.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can easily disregard this issue if the below conditions are true:&lt;br /&gt;Organizational forms are not used by the clients.&lt;br /&gt;There is no need for customized security settings of Outlook. &lt;br /&gt;Favorites stored in public folder are not used by the clients.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise convert outlook ost to pst file manually and then connect it to MS-Outlook profile. It is possible to use a third party OST to PST converter tool. With the aid of these tools, you can convert &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost.net/convert-ost-pst.php"&gt;&lt;b&gt;OST to PST&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; data easily and quickly. Your unusable OST file gets converted into usable PST file.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Related articles&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ostpstconverter.weebly.com/2/post/2010/11/resolve-file-ost-is-not-an-offline-folder-file-ost-file-error-convert-ost-to-pst.html"&gt;Resolve "File *.ost is not an offline folder file." OST file Error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://convert-outlook-ost-to-pst.blogspot.com/2010/11/convert-ost-pst-tool-to-resolve-object.html"&gt;Resolve "object could not be found" Error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-4413950056848568304?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4413950056848568304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4413950056848568304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2011/01/resolve-synchronization-errors-after.html' title='How to Resolve synchronization errors after migrating MS-Exchange mailbox'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-3653025565343822321</id><published>2010-12-17T21:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T05:17:19.515-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mailbox deleted'/><title type='text'>Extract Personal Emails and data from OST file after deleting the Mailbox</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;b style="color: grey; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 100px; line-height: 70px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;OST&lt;/b&gt; files are the exact replica of Server based folder and allows you to work in offline mode. Considering this relationship, OST file is just a slave and if somehow Master is deleted slave become orphaned. If mailbox has been deleted but profile is not deleted or modified then still you can recover ost file data. You can start the Microsoft Exchange client with the old OST and recover the data by moving messages from OST to PST file. You may also use third party&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;ost to pst conversion software to convert orphaned OST file to PST file.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How to copy offline messages from OST to PST file:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. Start the Exchange Client OFFLINE.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. To add PST service click Services On the Tools menu.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 3. Select the messages that you want to copy.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 4. On the File menu, click Copy.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 5. In the Copy to dialog box, select the personal folders (PST) that you have just created in step 2.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 6. Click OK.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 7. Repeat steps 5 through 8 for messages you want to copy from each folder. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason behind lost ost file data when profile has been modified is that security on an OST works so that Windows NT authentication cannot be used when you work offline.To ensure that you are allowed to log onto the master folder before local access to ost file, Exchange Server creates an encrypted "cookie" from your mailbox's unique entry ID when you are successfully loged in and this cookie is securely stored in your Exchange Server profile. Every time you try to access the OST file, it checks your profile for the existence of this key.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This way you can access the OST file data, if your mailbox is deleted but profile has not been modified. But when you modified the profile Microsoft Exchange replaces this key with a new value from the mailbox that was created and you can not access the data that was contained in the OST created against the first mailbox. in this case you can &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost-pst.com/"&gt;convert ost pst&lt;/a&gt; file to access the data of first mailbox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Related articles&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://convert-outlook-ost-to-pst.blogspot.com/2010/11/to-resolve-file-ost-is-not-offline.html"&gt;How to Resolve "File *.ost is not an offline folder file." Error&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Convert-OST-file"&gt;How to Recover Emails when Exchange Mailbox is delete&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-3653025565343822321?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/3653025565343822321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/3653025565343822321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/12/extract-personal-emails-and-data-from.html' title='Extract Personal Emails and data from OST file after deleting the Mailbox'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-3109230701666867658</id><published>2010-11-28T20:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T05:17:06.706-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst 2007'/><title type='text'>Solve the freeze problem of Outlook 2007 with OST PST converter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: green; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 100px; line-height: 70px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;I&lt;/b&gt;t is easy to access Outlook mail objects, such as e-mails, tasks, journals, attachments, appointments, and messages without Internet connection. The overall credit goes to the OST files. These files allow you to use mail objects without Internet connection. Using the OST file is the same as using MS-Office file. Whenever you connect with the Exchange server, all the data of the OST file gets automatically converted to PST. But sometimes, it happens you are unable to use mail objects because you fail to synchronize OST files with exchange server. So, there is a need to convert OST to PST file. For conversion, use a third party OST to PST converter tool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Discussed below is an error that appears when you use Outlook 2007, Outlook application halts after some time and doesn't allow you to access Outlook application:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Event Type: Information &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Event Source: Outlook &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Event Category: None &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Event ID: 30 Date: 5/10/2008 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Time: 8:33:44 AM &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;User: N/A &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Computer: SBS-Computer &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Description: The store C:\Documents and Settings\user.domain\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost is being reconciled with the indexer for the following reason: Non-matching max change numbers.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Causes:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The cause for the occurrence of the above error message  is corruption or destruction of your OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Solution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Such errors can be resolved easily. First repair the corrupt OST file. For checking the OST file, execute OST Integrity Check tool. For executing this tool, follow the below steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Close Outlook.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Open Scanost.exe. This program is located at drive:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\LocaleID folder.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;From the Name list of profile, select a profile that contains OST for checking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A dialog box will appear that asks you to Connect or Work offline, select Connect.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Check the Repair Errors check box. If you uncheck the  Repair Errors checkbox, then the tool does not make any change even if changes are required.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;After performing all the above stated steps, choose Begin Scan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If you are not satisfied with the results of OST Integrity check tool, then use a third party &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost-pst.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;OST PST converter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tool. OST to PST converter tools are read-only tools built with advance technology to safely convert OST to PST file. Built with simple graphical user interface, these tools are easy to understand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-3109230701666867658?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/3109230701666867658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/3109230701666867658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/11/solve-freeze-problem-of-outlook-2007.html' title='Solve the freeze problem of Outlook 2007 with OST PST converter'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-1666341506069945074</id><published>2010-10-12T01:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T05:16:44.313-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='outlook ost pst'/><title type='text'>Resolving “Service-specific error 0 (0x0)” Error Message</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: blue; float: left; font-family: times; font-size: 100px; line-height: 70px; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;ometimes, when a user trying to connect with Microsoft Exchange Server, he is unable to connect with the server. Their may be numerous reasons behind this connection error, like network problems, synchronization issues, and mailbox corruption. In all such situations, as the user is unable to connect with the MS Exchange server, he can not access the OST file . To resolve such situations, one needs to convert the OST file into its equivalent PST version. For successful &lt;b&gt;OST to PST conversion&lt;/b&gt;, a user needs to search for an effective third-party OST to PST conversion software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To understand the above mentioned situation, consider a practical situation where you are unable to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server after repetitive attempts. On the event log , you see the following details&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The MS Exchange Information Store service failed with the following&lt;br /&gt;error:&lt;br /&gt;Event Type: Error&lt;br /&gt;Event Source: Service Control Manager&lt;br /&gt;Event Category: None&lt;br /&gt;Event ID: 7024&lt;br /&gt;Date: 10/16/2006&lt;br /&gt;Time: 2:38:07 PM&lt;br /&gt;User: N/A&lt;br /&gt;Computer: SERVER1&lt;br /&gt;Description:&lt;br /&gt;The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service terminated with&lt;br /&gt;service-specific error 0 (0x0).&lt;br /&gt;For more information, see Help and Support Center at&lt;br /&gt;http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cause:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reasons behind the above situation may be:&lt;br /&gt;1)Network-related issues that do not allow you to connect to MS Exchange Server.&lt;br /&gt;2)Synchronization problems with&amp;nbsp; Exchange Server.&lt;br /&gt;3)Corruption of Exchange mailbox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To resolve the above problem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1)Fix all the synchronization issues with MS Exchange Server.&lt;br /&gt;2)In case of any network component damage, change that component.&lt;br /&gt;3)For corruption in mailbox, create a new profile. To synchronize your OST file with this new profile, you need to convert the OST file to PST. For such reasons, you need an OST to PST software. Such conversion software are readily available on the Internet and &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost.net/"&gt;Convert OST to PST&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;in just three steps. These software serve as self-explanatory tools that do not require any prior technical skills.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-1666341506069945074?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1666341506069945074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1666341506069945074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/10/resolving-service-specific-error-0-0x0.html' title='Resolving “Service-specific error 0 (0x0)” Error Message'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-4842032844040560347</id><published>2010-09-27T21:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-29T05:16:28.396-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ostto pst conversion software'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost pst tool'/><title type='text'>OST file Corrupted during synchronization ? Convert OST to PST</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;MS Outlookuses two types of files to store all the information of our mail box offile storage table (OST) and personal storage table (PST).OST file is used in case when we work offline and helpful in such cases areas where there is connectivity problem.&amp;nbsp; You keep on doing your work like ceating or deleting mails, and when the connection is restored the OST file gets synchronized with the exchange server to update the changes on both the server and in oST file.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But sometimes due to various reasons regarding connectivity or exchange server the OSt file gets corrupted and becomes inaccessible in MS Outlook. In such a cse you should repair the OST file&amp;nbsp; using the in-built OST Integrity (Scanost.exe) Tool. But the inbox repair tool doesn't work effectively all the time. Now you can use third party &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost-pst.com/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;OST to PST converter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to access all your content in OST file by converting it into PSt file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Suppose a situation wherein you use Outlook 2007 or any other version. you open the MS Outlook and start synchronize it with the exchange server. But after the synchronization you find that you can not open some or all of the outlook items when you work in offline mode.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cause:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The basic reason of this problem is the OST file gets corrupted at the synchronization time. It may get corrupt due to various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, synchronization issues, exchange server issues etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Resolution:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In such cases,&amp;nbsp; you should try to scan and repair the OST file using Scanost.exe tool and performing following steps. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Integrity (Scanost.exe) Tool. To do this, you need to perform the following steps:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Click Start | Run.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;2) &amp;nbsp; Enter C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\LocaleID\scanost.exe in the Open box.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;3) &amp;nbsp; Press Enter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;4) &amp;nbsp; Click either the Scan all folders option or Choose folder to scan accordingly. Please note that the first option would take several minutes to get completed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;5) &amp;nbsp; Select the Repair errors check box.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;6) &amp;nbsp; Click Begin Scan. The OST file will be scanned by the OST Integrity Tool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;7)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Restart Outlook. Now you would be able to view those items properly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;However, if the problem is not resolved by performing the above mentioned stepsan dyou are sitll facing the same issue, you should use a third-party&amp;nbsp; OST to&amp;nbsp; PST conversion tool&amp;nbsp; to convert OST file to PST file. Such OST to PST conversion tools are read only that means they are able to convert the OST file into PST file without overwriting the original OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="zemanta-related"&gt;&lt;h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Related articles&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul class="zemanta-article-ul"&gt;&lt;li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ostpstconverter.weebly.com/2/post/2010/11/resolve-file-ost-is-not-an-offline-folder-file-ost-file-error-convert-ost-to-pst.html"&gt;Resolve "File *.ost is not an offline folder file." OST file Error&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-4842032844040560347?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4842032844040560347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/4842032844040560347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/09/ost-file-corrupted-during.html' title='OST file Corrupted during synchronization ? Convert OST to PST'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-1320086477389993383</id><published>2010-09-27T00:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-27T00:39:17.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>N954A39ZEB6U&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-1320086477389993383?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1320086477389993383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/1320086477389993383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/09/n954a39zeb6u.html' title=''/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-8002406599228122724</id><published>2010-09-16T01:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T20:52:14.947-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion tool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exchange ost recovery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ostpst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><title type='text'>Convert OST to PST when Exchange Mailbox is Deleted</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Offline folder files(OST) are the replicas of your Exchange Mailbox. But if your mailbox gets deleted from the Server.All your mailbox data is lost, but still there is your OST file that contains all youe exchange mailbox data. But the issue is that how can you access your offline folder files?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In such a case if you did not altered the Original Exchange profile, then you have the chance to retrive your MS Exchange client in offline mode with your older OST file.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in such case when your original Exchange profile is deleted or altered, then the data in the&amp;nbsp; older OSt file is lost. In a broad scenario, in a case when you have altered &lt;br /&gt;your mailbox or your mail box gets deleted then the older OST file can not be accessed by&lt;br /&gt;MS Exchange client.When MS Exchange profile gets altered, modified or try to connect with a new mailbox, MS Exchange server then replaces the key with a new value from the new created exchange server. Which results in inaccessibility of all the mails and other data&lt;br /&gt;contained in previous mailbox.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What to do, if relized that you lost some important data due to alteration or deletion of your mailbox? Now as you you have altered or deleted your mailbox, you can not access the OSt file. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In such a case search for a OST to PST converter that can convert OST to PST . OST to PST conversion tools are&amp;nbsp; developed to convert the data saved in OST file to its equivalent PST version to make the inaccessible OST file accessible in its PST version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OST to PST converter can recover all most all the data stored in the OST files like email messages, folders, tasks, posts, appointments, journals, notes, attachments etc.&amp;nbsp; To be satisfied with the efficiency of the software, you can avail the evaluation version of the &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost.net/"&gt;convert OST&lt;/a&gt; tool and check the accuracy for your OST file.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-8002406599228122724?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/8002406599228122724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/8002406599228122724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/09/convert-ost-to-pst-when-exchange.html' title='Convert OST to PST when Exchange Mailbox is Deleted'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065906100570324862.post-6069467759313748725</id><published>2010-09-13T02:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T21:02:19.499-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion tool'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='convert outlook ost to pst'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ost to pst conversion software'/><title type='text'>OST to PST conversion Software to Recover Corrupted OST File</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pZ4w8AsLS-o/TI3po9qs-CI/AAAAAAAAAAM/wpq9X1RA-xM/s1600/OST+PST+Converter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pZ4w8AsLS-o/TI3po9qs-CI/AAAAAAAAAAM/wpq9X1RA-xM/s200/OST+PST+Converter.jpg" width="169" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used email client application. It supports two typrs of files to store the data, OST (Offline Storage Table) and PST (Personal Storage Table). The OST file is used to work in offline mode, that means, when the systems is not connected with the Internet. You can work in the offline mode and synchronize the changes with the Exchange server once the connection is restored. Somehow, sometimes the OST file gets corrupt due to number of reasons for example virus infections, power outages, header corruption, etc. In all such cases, you should try to repair the OST file using the Scanost tool available with the microsoft outlook. If you are unable to repair it, then you should convert an OST file to the equivalent PST version for which you need a third-party OST to PST conversion software.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider a scenario wherein you start MS Outlook on your systems, but it fails to start. Resulting in a message&amp;nbsp; display, that is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cannot open your default email folders. The file xyz.ost is not an offline folder file."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reason: There could be the following reasons for this error: The OST file gets corrupted and Outlook is unable to recognize it. Hence, the error. The OST file is linked with a mailbox for a particular user on the Exchange server. If the particular Exchange mailbox is inaccessible due to some reason, then this error is reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Resolution: To resolve this problem, you should repair the OST file using the OST Integrity Check (scanost.exe) tool. To do this, you should perform the following steps:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search and open the Scanost.exe file. &lt;br /&gt;Search and select the OST file to be repaired. &lt;br /&gt;Select the 'Repair Scan' check box to automatically repair the inconsistencies found in the OST file.&lt;br /&gt;Click the 'Begin Scan' option to begin the scan. The scan will be completed in a while.&lt;br /&gt;Start Outlook and check whether the problem has been fixed or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the problem is still not fixed then you should use a &lt;a href="http://www.convert-ost.net/"&gt;OST to PST&lt;/a&gt; conversion software&amp;nbsp; These OST-PST converters are able to convert an OST file to PST file without overwriting the existing OST file. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6065906100570324862-6069467759313748725?l=ostpstconverter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/6069467759313748725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6065906100570324862/posts/default/6069467759313748725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ostpstconverter.blogspot.com/2010/09/ost-to-pst-conversion-software-to.html' title='OST to PST conversion Software to Recover Corrupted OST File'/><author><name>Stephen</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pZ4w8AsLS-o/TI3po9qs-CI/AAAAAAAAAAM/wpq9X1RA-xM/s72-c/OST+PST+Converter.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
