OST files store Exchange mailbox data on user systems, so that the user can access emails even when the Exchange server is not available. Basically, OST file is an offline copy of the user’s mailbox stored on the Exchange server. Just like emails, the contacts of the user are also stored in OST files. How…

Migrating Outlook 2013 PST data to Outlook 2016 is typical task while you are using a manual method. Manual methods of migrating data from Outlook 2013 to 2016 is explained later before I will explain what are PST files and Why you need to migrate. What are PST files? A PST file is Personal Folder…

Most of the professionals today have Microsoft Outlook as their center of the workflow. Microsoft Outlook stores emails, contacts, appointments, tasks, notes, journals, etc. in two locations – In personal storage table (.pst) file on your hard disk or in a mailbox located on the server (when you are using Outlook with Microsoft Exchange Server)….

IT administrators sometimes will have to import email files (of their employees) to the organization’s email servers – Exchange Server, IBM Domino, Novell GroupWise, or Office 365. This situation usually arises when employees work from home on their own systems. It is easy to import the files of the email clients supported by the email…

Office 365 is getting popular day by day. Organizations are switching over to Office 365 from their on-premises email systems to benefit from its cost efficiency and other advantages like zero-maintenance and universal accessibility. Users of IBM Lotus Notes are not an exception. IBM Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration Lotus Notes is quite difficult…

Inaccessibility issues related to offline Outlook Data Files is a major concern for organizations working in the Exchange environment. Though there are some Microsoft recommended ways to deal with some of these issues, many issues can be solved only through OST to PST conversion. Tools like Kernel for OST to PST performs such a conversion…

Two major email clients prevalent in organizations are IBM/Lotus Notes and MS Outlook. However, under certain situations, many users need to switch their email client to Outlook from Lotus Notes. But accessing NSF file directly in Outlook is not possible. Let us go through the necessities, and the procedure one has to follow to access…

The constantly growing popularity of Microsoft’s cloud platform (Office 365) has persuaded many Exchange admins to switch over from their current environment to the cloud. But moving their on-premises Exchange Server to Office 365 is not at all an easy task with native options. Express Migration – A Noteworthy Entry in the Native Options There…

Web based email clients like Gmail are popular as users can access their emails from anywhere through internet. So many desktop email client users keep a copy of their emails in web mails. Here, we will discuss how Outlook for Mac users can export their emails to Gmail, a very popular web based email application….

It is at the time of Exchange disasters that administrators understand the real difficulties of not having an emailing system. The communication within and outside the organization fails affecting its revenues and the relations with the partners, clients, and customers. Fortunately, offline Outlook Data (OST) files that keep a local copy of the user’s Exchange…