Thursday 30 May 2013

Open OST file to Outlook PST - When OST Gets Corrupted Seriously

There are many facilities enjoyed by a user while working under the Exchange collaborated Outlook environment, one among them is the provision to work offline. OST files are the storage place of data that are created while working offline; hence the name given to it is an Offline Storage Table. The data within the OST files can be synchronized with the server Mailbox data once the offline mode is over and the connection with the server is re-established. OST files are extremely useful when the working environment runs on limited or restricted network connectivity. User can perform all the actions like to receive new emails, send mails, even though they rest in the Outbox folder and add entries in the calendars, journals and so on.




Problems That May Threat the Data Integrity

While working smoothly with the OST files and later synchronizing it with Server data no one will think of a data lose that may be critical. But this also will happen as the OST files if corrupted and server crash or downtime occurred then it will become near to impossible to synchronize the OST file data and the data store will be hanged on the threat of data loss or damage. The OST corruption will result in the inaccessibility of files and also user will not be even able to read the file content, resulting in the inconsistency in business flow.

Corruption Commonly Occurs With These Reasons

Many reasons can be pointed out for corruption of OST files and among them the most common ones can be pointed out as
  • Damages database
  • Bad sectors or Virus Attack
  • Hardware failure
  • Insufficient storage space
  • Formatting or re-building information stored in the server
  • User account has been deleted accidentally
  • Server shutdown or application crash that happened accidently
  • Abrupt system power failure
  • CRC error
Solution for the After Effects of Corruption

The effects of corruption will badly affect the business communication channel and to make the channel active even without an OST file being synchronized with the server, the best possible way is to make the OST file data converted to PST files which is readable and accessible when Outlook is in standalone condition. For performing this action it is better to employ Open OST file which will handle the process of conversion smoothly, reliably and perfectly. If the external software that you install is an Open OST file in Outlook, then you will be benefited with process like

• Convert OST to PST/MSG/EML

The Open OST files are one reliable solution which will convert all the items and data stored within different folders of OST and will make the data secure when the worst corruption scenario occurs.