[dba-Tech] Outlook PST troubles

Susan,

There was some good info in your article.  Like I said to John, I
wonder if there's a "For Dummies" book on dealing with Outlook
corruption.  I've NEVER used it personally except when I worked at my
last job...and there the network admin was fully up to the task of
making it work properly.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate to say it -- but good luck with that. :(
>
>  <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289987/ >
> <http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/troubleshooting/solutions/292.asp>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088
>
> I've yet to have anything work. The key is to keep the pst file small and to
> back it up regularly.
>
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=471
>
> Susan H.
>
>
>
>> Dear Group,
>>
>> My wife, Janet, has been having trouble at work with a large Outlook
>> PST file...about 500 MB in size.  They don't use Microsoft Exchange on
>> their server (they've got Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 on an
>> HP server); they use one PC with Outlook to gather their messages.  Up
>> until a few days ago, they'd left copies of all messages on the
>> server.  They stopped doing that and the server downloaded 14,000 or
>> so messages to Outlook...so the PST plumped up quickly.  I think they
>> did that on Thursday or Friday last week.