Know about OST integrity tool: The Outlook encounters errors and is prone to corruption, in order to check the synchronization error that usually happens while trying to synchronize the OST (which is the file in the hard disk which contains the offline folders) with your Exchange server,there is an inbuilt check tool that is installed at the time of Outlook installation in the default location
drive: \Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\LocaleID folder
This check tool is either known as OST integrity tool or Scan OST tool, which is a re-synchronization tool, and is helpful in checking out the errors caused with the OST files.
Limitation of OST integrity Check Tool
The inbuilt tool is of great help but is working only when Outlook is set OFF mode. When Outlook is running, the scanOST facility is not able to detect the error or to solve it. If you previously set up Outlook to automatically start offline, the OST Integrity Check tool won't be able to access the server. So, before getting the tool functional, temporarily change the Outlook set up in the system.
How to overcome the situation:
In cases when this Outlook integrity tool also fails to perform the best way to get the OST files scanned and recovered is the OST Recovery tool like extraneous utility. The tool will successfully help in the recovery of the OST files under any situations of corruption and will recover damaged OST file and some other formats like MSG, EML file format. Get the tool downloaded from the download button below and get the OST files exported to PST with ease now.
