Hi,

I need to import emails from existing OST to the new OST (of same account).
The situation is as follows:

1. While working as a contract employee for my firm I was given a user name
and was using the exchange server for email communication.
2. I had the OST on my machine.
3. My contract was renewed with the same account after expiration of the
current account. But this was delayed due to internal administration
processes.
4. During the delay my user account was disabled in AD and the mailbox was
removed form exchange.
5. Now when the account is enabled and I logged in to my machine (same
machine) I got an empty mailbox on exchange.
6. Due to the above reason I want to import the emails form the OST to my
current account.
7. I feel that as the account is same, I should be able to use the same OST.
However, in the system, I observed that a different profile was created when
I logged in after contract renewal (for example earlier it was just the
<username> but not a new profile with name <user>.<domain> was created. I am
not sure if the account was disabled or deleted and re-created due to this.

Please suggest a way to import the messages from OST in this case.

Thanks

Re: OST Import by Brian

Brian
Thu Mar 27 10:55:14 PDT 2008

JayJP <JayJP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:


> 1. While working as a contract employee for my firm I was given a
> user name and was using the exchange server for email communication.
> 2. I had the OST on my machine.
> 3. My contract was renewed with the same account after expiration of
> the current account. But this was delayed due to internal
> administration processes.
> 4. During the delay my user account was disabled in AD and the
> mailbox was removed form exchange.
> 5. Now when the account is enabled and I logged in to my machine (same
> machine) I got an empty mailbox on exchange.

If you have not removed the original Exchange account from Outlook, you can
run Outlook in Offline mode and have access to the contents of the OST. You
can then create a PST and copy that data to the PST.

You do not have to create a new OST, since the new Exchange account will
create one for you. You can copy the data in the PST to your mailbox.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


Re: OST Import by Diane

Diane
Thu Mar 27 20:15:12 PDT 2008

If you have removed the account, the only way to recover it is by using
system restore. Go back before you removed the acct and work offline, export
the ost to a pst then connect to exchange.

If the system restore doesn't go back far enough, you'll need to fork over a
few bucks to convert the ost.
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp has some tools which will
recover the data if the profile is not available.


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"Brian Tillman" <tillman1952@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ebf6pQDkIHA.5556@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> JayJP <JayJP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 1. While working as a contract employee for my firm I was given a
>> user name and was using the exchange server for email communication.
>> 2. I had the OST on my machine.
>> 3. My contract was renewed with the same account after expiration of
>> the current account. But this was delayed due to internal
>> administration processes.
>> 4. During the delay my user account was disabled in AD and the
>> mailbox was removed form exchange.
>> 5. Now when the account is enabled and I logged in to my machine (same
>> machine) I got an empty mailbox on exchange.
>
> If you have not removed the original Exchange account from Outlook, you
> can run Outlook in Offline mode and have access to the contents of the
> OST. You can then create a PST and copy that data to the PST.
>
> You do not have to create a new OST, since the new Exchange account will
> create one for you. You can copy the data in the PST to your mailbox.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


Re: OST Import by Brian

Brian
Fri Mar 28 08:16:09 PDT 2008

Diane Poremsky {MVP} <outlookmvp@msn.net> wrote:

> If the system restore doesn't go back far enough, you'll need to fork
> over a few bucks to convert the ost.
> http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp has some tools
> which will recover the data if the profile is not available.

Is that really the URL you intended, Diane? I don't see any OST to PST
tools there.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


Re: OST Import by Diane

Diane
Sun Mar 30 19:56:50 PDT 2008

some of the tools there will recover data from ost files - kernel tool has
an ost version, pst walker does ost.

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"Brian Tillman" <tillman1952@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e33JbcOkIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Diane Poremsky {MVP} <outlookmvp@msn.net> wrote:
>
>> If the system restore doesn't go back far enough, you'll need to fork
>> over a few bucks to convert the ost.
>> http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp has some tools
>> which will recover the data if the profile is not available.
>
> Is that really the URL you intended, Diane? I don't see any OST to PST
> tools there.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


Re: OST Import by JayJP

JayJP
Tue Apr 01 02:17:05 PDT 2008

Hi All,

Thaks for all the help. I verified with the admin team and they informed me
that the account was deleted and re-created (part of the processes :( )

I will need to get the third-party solution in that case.

Thanks again,

JayJP

"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote:

> some of the tools there will recover data from ost files - kernel tool has
> an ost version, pst walker does ost.
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
> Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
> Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
>
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>
>
> "Brian Tillman" <tillman1952@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e33JbcOkIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Diane Poremsky {MVP} <outlookmvp@msn.net> wrote:
> >
> >> If the system restore doesn't go back far enough, you'll need to fork
> >> over a few bucks to convert the ost.
> >> http://www.slipstick.com/problems/repair2gbpst.asp has some tools
> >> which will recover the data if the profile is not available.
> >
> > Is that really the URL you intended, Diane? I don't see any OST to PST
> > tools there.
> > --
> > Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>