Offline Address Book Corruption In Outlook and PST Recovery
Posted by admin on September 18th, 2008Microsoft Outlook provides the facility of creating offline address book to give offline access of directory information from GAL (Global Address List) and from other address records. Exchange generates an address book file and stores it to the public folder, known as system folder.
By using offline address book, you do not need to connect to the Active directory, of Exchange Server, for common operations like resolving recipient names, retrieving address details, or browsing the address list. It is very useful in network environment.
Though, offline address book is pretty useful, but sometimes when you compose a new message offline using offline address book, the message might be sent to the incorrect recipient.
The address is selected of the right user but it shows that the message has sent to wrong recipient. For instance, W sends a message to X and in Sent Items folder of Outlook, the message is shown as having been sent to Y. When you check the properties for Y in Sent Items folder, they are those of Z.
Reasons of the problem
This problem generally occurs if your offline address book has got corrupted. The offline address book may get damaged when a name in the message is resolved from the GAL in the address book, that name coincides with the entry ID in the GAL. If the address additions or alterations result into new X.500 address information then this situation may occur.
No matter what the reason of problem is, the ultimate consequence is the PST corruption and inaccessible data from the file. It can lead to nightmare of data loss and can create several grave situations. In such circumstances, it becomes extremely significant to repair and restore the PST file.
The PST repair is feasible with the help of specially designed third party PST recovery software. PST recovery software are very easy to use and powerful enough to ensure absolute repair Outlook PST operation.
PST recovery software do a complete and systematic scan of the affected PST file and extract all of its corrupted objects and restore them. These software are offered by various data recovery companies and come with different set of features.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair software is the best ever made and highly influential PST repair software which is able to repair and restore all of the Outlook objects including emails, notes, contacts, journal, email attachments and many alike in even severe corruption cases.
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