Vlad,

Since it’s an ost and not a pst, just disable cached mode delete the ost file, enable cached mode. Or are you looking to save bandwith with people over dial up + cached mode with a 2GB mailbox who sync all folders?

Cheers

Yeah, nuke entire PST every time you have an issue and download gigs of email. I think his point was that the interface is not friendly enough to be taken care of by the average worker. I want my Microsoft slapping Vlad back, this is a total pussy copout post.

@ Charlie:

with a pst no … with an ost possible.

Every time … no I did not say that. But perhaps just in this case that Vlad describes … In a 1200 user exchange environment in 7 sites in 6 cities we see this issue a very rarely and we have the band with to do it. compared to the time the scan takes why not? OWA is also an option as Vlad mentioned. We more often see a auto ost scan when outlook did not close properly but that doesn’t take to long even with large mailboxes.

Can’t say that I’ve ever run ScanOST or ScanPST (did Microsoft combine them for 2007?) against an OST file.

Since it’s possible that the ScanXXX program won’t fix the corruption, my normal approach is to just rename the old .OST file and let Outlook rebuild it from scratch. I’d rather it take a bit longer and have a 100% certainty of an un-corrupted .OST file when it’s done.

You know that might work if your servers are local, but if you are remote such as in my case you are not going to redownload 10 GB mailbox, wait for Vista to reindex it all and so on and so forth.

While I agree that download again is an alternative to what I outlined, for cached mode issues when you are remote its hard to argue. Heck, even using Exchange in RPC-over-HTTP without cached mode from your average hotel or 3G can be painful, image a corrupted mailbox while on the road?

-Vlad

-Vlad

10GB mailbox… geesh don’t you ever clean house? Delete those big p$rn files would ya

Seriously, how’s about a local pst file to resolve that size issue?

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