[dba-Tech] Outlook PST troubles

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Thu May 21 12:59:32 CDT 2009


Not specific to Corruption but there are for dummies books on outlook

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Outlook-2007-For-Dummies/Bill-Dyszel/e/9780470038307/?itm=7

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Outlook-2003-for-Dummies/Bill-Dyszel/e/9780764537592/?itm=12

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Microsoft-Outlook-2000-for-Dummies/Bill-Dyszel/e/9780764504716/?itm=40

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927049/



On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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