Know About the Process for How to Restore OST Emails into PST File

Well, if you are a long time user of Microsoft-Outlook and Exchange Server collaborative platform, then you must have been acquainted by the benefits of OST file. Sometimes, it happens that, your machine is not able to communicate with the Exchange Server when the server is offline or in disconnected state. In such type of situations, Outlook makes use of the set of offline data stored as OST files (Offline Storage Table).

Microsoft-Outlook stores data in the offline folder file (OST) and then synchronize the changes that have been made to the existing folders with the Exchange server mailbox. Updating of data in the mailbox is carried as soon as the Server connectivity is restored. Nevertheless, the OST files can be corrupted because of synchronization issues. This why nowadays users prefer to restore OST emails into PST file. This section will focus on the ways of backing the OST messages in PST file format. However, before that, we are going to discuss about the possible benefits that users will get on storing OST emails as PST files.

Advantages of Restoring OST Emails into PST File

1. Save Your Data Locally On Hard Drive

When you save the data of OST files in PST file format, you get to access all your important emails, contacts, and notes on the local hard-drive. There is no need to depend on OST files. Owing to the vulnerability of OST files being corrupted, we can easily get away with it by saving the OST files in PST file format.

2. Open OST File Data in Any Outlook Profile

Knowing that OST files are strictly MAPI specific, you cannot open OST file in all the Outlook profile.OST files can only be accesses in the Outlook profiles that was originally configured with the mailbox of Exchange Server to create it. In such a case, restoring OST emails into PST file is definitely a great option. Reason being PST files can be accesses in all the Outlook profile.

Now, the question that comes around is how to restore OST emails into PST file. Let us have a look on the possible ways through which we can export the data of OST files into Outlook PST file.

Solution to Export OST Data into Outlook PST

1. Use the Export Mailbox PowerShell Command

By using Exchange server PowerShell cmdlets, we can restore OST emails into PST file format. Suppose your user data is stored in the mailbox and you want to export the data to an Outlook PST file with the name Kim.pst located at C:\PSTFiles, and then use the command given below.

Export-Mailbox-Identity Kim@orlando.com-PSTFolderPathC:\PSTFiles\kim.pst

2. Use of Third-Party Solution to Restore OST emails into PST

A proficient tool like OST to PST converter helps in exporting the OST data into PST file format without involving any data losses. Further, you can also depend on this utility for the preservation of the original structure of messages.