It’s not a matter of surprise to know the data files stored on your MS Outlook can blow-up anytime. Your emails are stored locally on your machines, including the offline storage folders (Yes, you read that right). Outlook uses an offline folder (OST file) to allow its users to work offline, even if the Outlook…

Recovery of data from offline Exchange database files to Outlook email client (PST file) has many unseen challenges. So, there is a requirement for reliable EDB recovery tools that meet user’s requirements even in complex conditions. Many Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) recommend Kernel for Exchange Server to recover data from corrupt EDB files and…

Does your Outlook application stop or pause while reading, moving, or deleting emails? Possibly, your PST file is large. With large PST files, Outlook slows down considerably making it difficult to use the application properly. Regarding the desirable size of PST files, Microsoft provides the following guidelines: Small PST files (up to 5 GB size)…

OST file, also known as ‘Offline Storage Table‘ file is a replica of the complete data in the mailbox of Outlook. There are situations when MS Outlook may throw errors and fail to open because of corrupted or deleted OST file. Reasons for OST file corruption may be incompatible Outlook add-ins, corruption in file system,…

Both OST and PST files hold importance to an Outlook user. Corruption in any of these will ultimately cause Outlook to suffer. OST file is a backup copy of data available in Exchange Server configured with Outlook with some predefined size limitations. The storage capacity of the file depends on the installed version of MS…