Importing offline settings back to exchange

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Somehow my profile got stepped on on our exchange server
and as a result all my outlook settings and contact list
are gone. There is an offline file (.ost) on my machine
from before this happening. Is there a way to bring this
back to exchange? When I try to use it and go offline
outlook says I must connect to the exchange server once
before working offline and when I do it creates an
outlook0.ost file, so the original file is never used.
Looks like the exchange knows the original is from the
previous prifile. Any info appreciated.
 
If you had not tried to connect and just stayed offline, you could have
exported your .ost file to a .pst file and used that to restore your Outlook
items. As it is now, your information is pretty much toast.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
joe <[email protected]> asked:

| Somehow my profile got stepped on on our exchange server
| and as a result all my outlook settings and contact list
| are gone. There is an offline file (.ost) on my machine
| from before this happening. Is there a way to bring this
| back to exchange? When I try to use it and go offline
| outlook says I must connect to the exchange server once
| before working offline and when I do it creates an
| outlook0.ost file, so the original file is never used.
| Looks like the exchange knows the original is from the
| previous prifile. Any info appreciated.
 
Is there a utility to convert the ost on my drive to a
pst? Seems that the only reason it won't open my ost is
because the profile name is different. Shoul I have our
admin recreate the original profile name and assign it to
me so I mathc the old ost on my drive? Whe have tape
backups - what about restoring my mbx and settings to the
exchange server from tape - is this possible?
 
Joe said:
Is there a utility to convert the ost on my drive to a
pst? Seems that the only reason it won't open my ost is
because the profile name is different. Shoul I have our
admin recreate the original profile name and assign it to
me so I mathc the old ost on my drive?
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You can create your own profile matching the old name using the Mail applet
in Control Panel. However, the ost file's name has no bearing on the
profile name.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
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