.ost files

[Sharon]

How do you inport and .ost file into Outlook 2002?

 

[Brian Tillman]

How do you inport and .ost file into Outlook 2002?

You don't. There are commercial products (OST2PST, for example) that can
convert an OST to a PST so it can be incorporated.
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[Jan Suralertrungsri [MSFT]]

Hello,

Outlook does not allow OST file to be imported into a different profile.
OST file has a unique identifier information between the Outlook profile
that used to create the OST file, the Exchange Server store (user's
mailbox) and the NT user profile. If anyone of those are not the same, OST
file will not be able to open with Outlook.

If you need to have OST file imports to a different profile, the work
around would be to:
- open the original OST from the profile that used to create the file.
- export the OST into PST file
- open the new export PST file on the new profile.

Best Regards,

Jan Suralertrungsri, MCSE
Microsoft Enterprise Messaging Support
Client Server Infrastructure

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[Alexandra]

The problem is that the original profile user was changed
because we had to rebuild the ADC/exchange server and the
worstation had to reconnect to the new server.

I now have an OST file with my old email and cannot
recover.

why has microsoft not written a utility to deal with this
problem???

Alexandra

 

[Jan Suralertrungsri [MSFT]]

Hello,

Microsoft does not have utility to recover OST file. If the original
Oultook profile that used to create that OST file has been deleted or
modified in anyway, then there is no way that we can recover the OST file.

Jan Suralertrungsri (MSFT)
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