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MS Outlook Info : Tips and Tricks for Inbox Repair Tool - PST Repair

MS outlook PST File Problems and Solution - Tips & Tricks for PST Recovery

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

How to Repair Corrupted PST File in Outlook 2007?

Microsoft Outlook is an advanced and widely used email client and personal information manager, developed and marketed by Microsoft Corporation. It is the part of Microsoft Office suite of products. The latest version of this application is Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. It has improved user interface and security features, which safeguard your valuable data against any type of data loss situations. However, in some situations, the main storage file of Microsoft Outlook; PST (Personal Storage Table) file gets damaged and your precious data become inaccessible. In such critical situations, you need to Recover PST file, if backup is not updated.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 stores all your valuable Outlook data, such as emails, contacts, tasks, notes, journal, attachments, appointments, and calendar, in the PST file. PST file works like a database and create index for all its objects to ensure high performance and easy data management. There is no size limit for the PST file in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, however Outlook 2002 and earlier versions have 2 GB size limit for the PST file.

Under some circumstances, the Outlook PST file gets damaged due to numerous reasons. The most frequent causes of Outlook 2007 PST corruption are as given below:

  • Application Malfunction- If Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 gets crashed or malfunctions due to any reasons, like missing or corrupt system files, you may come across PST file corruption.

  • Virus Infection- Viruses are malicious programs, which may remove or corrupt the critical files of Microsoft Outlook or even the PST file.

  • File System Errors- Microsoft Windows keeps entry of PST file in the hard drive file system. If your system face any kind of file system problems or errors, PST file may become faulty and it becomes totally inaccessible.

  • Improper Application Termination- If Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 application shuts down improperly, due to power outage or system crash, PST file may get damaged. To avoid such situations, you need to quit or close the application properly.

In all such situations, the PST file become totally inaccessible and the PST recovery becomes need of hour. Recovery is best possible using advanced and powerful third-party applications, known as PST recovery software.

The applications are powerful enough to thoroughly scan entire PST file and extract all damaged and inaccessible items from it. The PST recovery tool has interactive graphical user interface to offer easy recovery.

Outlook PST Repair is the most advanced and comprehensive utility that successfully repairs and restores damaged PST file in all scenarios. It works well with Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. The software restores all PST file objects, such as emails, notes, contacts, tasks, and attachments.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

How to fix Common corrupt outlook PST errors ?

MS Outlook
MS Outlook is one of the most popular email client software used by organization for communication and better personal information management. It can be used either as a stand alone application or can work with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Share Point Server for multiple users. Microsoft Outlook stores all your e-mails, contacts, appointments, notes, tasks, journal entries and folders into a file known as .pst or Personal Folder file. Imagine kind of situation in which your pst file get corrupted and all your file items become inaccessible. The PST recovery software might help you to repair outlook pst file and get all your important data back.


There are some of the following Outlook error that can disturb your smooth working:

1. "Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file"

2. "An unknown error has occurred. 0×80040600"

3. "Outlook.pst cannot be accessed - 0×80040116"

4. "An unknown error has occurred. 0×80040119"

5. "An unknown error has occurred. 0×80040116"

6. "Outlook.pst has reached its maximum size"

7. "Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file"

8. "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)"

9. "Messaging interface has caused an unknown error"

10. "Outlook.pst could not be opened"

11. "xxx.pst file could not be opened. The file may not be compatible with this version of Outlook or it may be corrupted"

12. "Outlook.pst could not be found"

13. "Unable to display the folder, Outlook.pst could not be accessed, access denied"

14. "The operation failed due to a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall"

15. “Unable to send this item.”

16. “archive_filename.pst is not a personal folders file”

17. “An unexpected error prevented access to this file. Use ScanDisk to check the disk for errors, and then try using the Inbox Repair Tool again”

18. "An error has occurred in the script on this page"

19. “Sending reported error (0×80040201): ‘Unknown Error 0×80040201.”


Although Microsoft Outlook comes with an inbuilt pst repair utility known as inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) that scans and repairs corrupt or damaged PST files but If the degree of corruption is high, the scanpst utility might not be able to fix the corrupted outlook file and requires a third-party PST Recovery solution. Such Utility uses advanced scanning algorithms to efficiently repair & recover pst file in all corruption situations.


Outlook PST Repair is an excellent PST Recovery Software that quickly scans the corrupt PST file to find out the possible damages in the file and successfully recover pst objects. The application is having unique features like support of Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000, 100% preview of all recoverable items, count of all items in individual folder, compatibility with Windows 7 and detail summary report of all recoverable items.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

New Features of Microsoft Office 2010

On Wednesday, May 12 2010, Microsoft launched Office 2010 for businesses in New York

Top 10 New features of Office 2010:

  1. Image Background Removal tool
  2. Built-in screen capture tool
  3. Protected View for downloaded documents
  4. Revamped Office Button
  5. New native 64-bit version
  6. New icons and a customizable Ribbon
  7. New Ribbon UI for Outlook and OneNote
  8. Jump lists for Outlook
  9. Coauthoring in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote
  10. PowerPoint can record direct to video
Image Background Removal tool- Background Removal tool lets you get rid of the background without leaving Word or PowerPoint.


Built-in screen capture tool - can use it from within Word 2010 or PowerPoint 2010 to capture all the currently open windows, then select the screenshot of the desired window and insert it into your document.

Protected View for downloaded documents—For added security, Word 2010 has a new Protected View for documents opened from the Internet. Protected View essentially presents these Internet documents in read-only mode, which prevents you from running any malicious code that might have been inserted into documents.

Revamped Office Button—The Office Button now presents a new smart control panel that provides information about the current document and offers many new options to better control document printing. Inexplicably, Microsoft now calls what you see when you click the Office Button the Backstage view.

New native 64-bit version —Office 2007 was available only in a 32-bit version. When you start to install Office 2010, you'll see right away that Microsoft has made a native 64-bit version of Office 2010 because you choose which version to install. The 64-bit version lets Office 2010 take full advantage of the 64-bit Windows OS.

New icons and a customizable Ribbon- Each icon now has a large letter representing the application's name. That's a nice touch for Outlook because the old yellow Outlook icon looked a bit too much like the Windows Explorer icon. Another nice touch is the fact that the Ribbon is no longer fixed: You can customize it with your own sections and commands.

New Ribbon UI for Outlook and OneNote — The Ribbon UI has also been added to OneNote, completing the adoption of the Ribbon across the entire Office suite.

Jump lists for Outlook —One cool feature in Outlook 2010 is the addition of the Windows 7–style jump list. You access Outlook 2010's jump list simply by hovering over the Outlook icon in the taskbar. Outlook 2010's jump list lets you quickly create new email messages, appointments, contacts, and tasks without opening Outlook and navigating through its menu options.

Coauthoring in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote— Coauthoring lets multiple authors work simultaneously on the same document and merge together each author's work. Coauthoring requires that the shared documents are stored on SharePoint 2010.

PowerPoint can record direct to video- PowerPoint 2010 enhancement is the ability to record presentations directly to video. In case you were wondering, there's also basic video editing capability that lets you edit videos in PowerPoint 2010 without the need for third-party tools.

Source: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-client/new-features-in-office-2010.aspx

More ..

MS Outlook 2010 Features

• Email manager: groups conversation threads.
• Clean-up: removes non-unique emails.
• Ignore: Delivers unwanted group emails straight to the delete box.
• Integrated voice messaging that transcribes to text.
• Social connector: brings social networking connections to the Outlook feed.

SharePoint

• Co-authoring for Word, PowerPoint and OneNote: multiple users can access one document. Microsoft has enabled users to lock sections of documents, instead of the whole document.
• View and edit documents from the browser without downloading onto on-premise.

Features of PowerPoint 2010

* Edit and trim videos.
* Broadcast slide show on a unique URL for pre-checking.

Friday, May 7, 2010

PST File corruption Symtoms: Outlook Error Codes

If you are getting any of the following error when you run MS Outlook, It indicates that your Personal Storage File(PST) is get corrupted and need to resolve by a PST Recovery tool.

* 'An unknown error has occurred - 0x80040600

* Messaging interface has caused an unknown error

* An unknown error has occurred

* 'Unknown Error 0x80040119' Sending and receiving reported Error (0x80040119)

* Couldn't get property list from object: MAPI_E_EXTENDED_ERROR

* 'Unknown Error 0x80040600' Microsoft Exchange Server reported error (0x80040600) :

* 'Unknown Error 0x80040116 Outlook.pst can not be accessed

* Sending and receiving reported error (0x80040116)

There is a Inbox Repair utility to solve this problem that can repair & restore your outlook .PST file.

Outlook PST Repair Software is a high-end inbox repair utility that can repair your corrupt PST file and create a new one to extract all items like contacts, folders, notes, e-mails, calendar items, Date and Time etc. To Repair Outlook Inbox folder using this outlook inbox repair software, you need to perform just a few simple steps. This PST Repair tool supports MS Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007, 2010.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Repair Outlook PST Error An Unknown Error Occurred - 0x80040116

An unknown error occurred - 0x80040116

Repair Outlook Error "0x80040116" - "Outlook.pst can not be accessed" error message when you start Outlook 2000 or open a personal folder file

The File/Data File Management option of Microsoft Office Outlook lets you organize Outlook e-mails and perform various settings of various .pst files. For performing the required changes in any of the PST files, it requires the file to be in perfect condition. In other words, it should be error-free. If you fail in your attempt to access the file settings of a particular PST file from File/Data File Management option, the reason can be corruption of PST file. In such circumstances, running different PST Recovery solutions often brings effective results in extracting e-mails.

Let's specify the given problem by following realistic illustration. Here we have considered the case of an Microsoft Outlook 2007 user who has an important PST file that contains critical e-mails, calendar items, contacts, and other items. When he/she tries to open the file, it would either not open or give errors. On trying to access the settings of this PST file, it behaves unexpectedly, while prompting the below error message on screen:

“An unknown error occurred, error code: 0x80040116”

Cause

The above depicted problem is most likely to occur because of the damage of Outlook PST and/or Outlook profile. It can be an upgrade related problem. When you upgrade, the process might in turn corrupt your PST mail profile and/or PST file on account of some incompatibility issues.

Solution

To begin with troubleshooting this problem, you should first recreate your mail profile. Once the new profile starts working perfectly and you can access the settings of a new PST file (Outlook creates a new PST file with each mail profile you create) and attach the existing PST file. If it works properly, corruption was related to profile and not with the PST file, which now has been resolved. But if Outlook behaves in the same manner as before, your original PST file is corrupted that you need to Recover PST file.

Try to repair the PST file using Outlook's built-in Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe). If this doesn't help, a third-party PST File Recovery utility is your answer. These software can scan your corrupted PST file and restore all file contents at a safe location.

PST Recovery Software is a high-end utility that can repair your corrupted PST file and create a new file to extract all e-mails, notes, calendar items, contacts, etc. To Recover PST file using this software, you need to perform just a few simple steps. The PST Recovery tool supports MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Error Importing Outlook E-mails to Windows Mail:'MAPI is not installed on this computer …'

Windows Mail is the replacement of Outlook Express in Windows Vista. Sometimes, user needs to use e-mails received in Microsoft Outlook in Windows Mail, which can be done on importing the associated PST file. If succeeds, this operation facilitates the accessing Outlook PST as normal. But there are many issues that can halt this process and your Outlook e-mails may remain un-exported. One of the frequently observed reasons for this behavior is PST corruption, which requires PST Recovery solutions to solve.

Suppose you install Windows Mail on your Windows Vista computer and decide to import e-mails from an existing Outlook PST. Since the PST contains most of your important e-mails, it is imperative to import it without any errors. But to your surprise, you fail to import PST and the following error message pops up when you select Import/Outlook option:

“Messages cannot be imported from the MAPI client. MAPI is not installed on this computer or an error occured while initializing it.”

After this error message is received, you cannot import the Outlook PST in Windows Mail.

Explanation

The above behavior can be explained on the basis of following possible facts:

1.By MAPI client, the error message might be referring to Microsoft Outlook itself. Thus, one of the prime reasons for this error to occur is that Microsoft Outlook is not installed or is improperly installed on your computer. Thus, to resolve the issue, you should reinstall Microsoft Outlook and try importing the e-mails again. Alternatively, you can try importing PST e-mails in Outlook Express and then in Windows Mail. If the issue persists, continue to the next recommendation.

2.The same error message can also be received if the PST in issue is corrupted. For PST File Recovery, you need to run Outlook's Inbox Repair Tool, which is accessible by a program file called 'Scanpst.exe'. If this fails, the last resort is to use a third-party PST Recovery utility.


PST Recovery Software is a high-end tool that can repair and restore corrupted PST created with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. This PST Recovery tool has a 3-pane message view plus a user-friendly interface that make it easily operable. The tool can also recover deleted e-mail messages.

How to repair Outlook folders by Inbox Repair Tool?

Microsoft Outlook uses Personal Storage Folders or PST files to store all its data, which includes e-mail folders, contacts, calendar entries, and other personal data. PST files in Microsoft Outlook 2002 and earlier versions are formatted to ANSI (American National Standards Institute) format, though with Microsoft Outlook 2003 onwards, they started using UNICODE file format. In case, Microsoft Outlook doesn't allow you to open your folders and reports errors on trying to open them, most likely the Outlook PST file is damaged and you should use Inbox Repair Tool. This is a small utility, which comes as a default part of installation of Microsoft Office 2000 and later versions and allows you to repair the corrupted PST files in most of the cases.

When corrupted, PST file is automatically fixed by Outlook when you start the application. A start window displays that Outlook is trying to repair your folders. However, if the extent of damage is high, this initial repair may fail and you may not be able to start Outlook. These are the situations when you need to fix PST file corruption using Outlook's repair tool.

Using Inbox Repair Tool

To Repair Outlook Inbox and rest of the folders, you need to access an executable program file called Scanpst.exe with its default location as :\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 in Outlook 2007 and C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033 in earlier versions. If you cannot locate this tool at the expected location, you can find it with the file search option of Windows. Once the file is located, follow the steps mentioned below:

1.Make sure that Outlook is closed before you start the tool
2.Double-click the Scanpst.exe file to launch the tool
3.Browse to the location of your PST file
4.Click 'Start' to start the file scanning
5.Once scanning finishes, you see a notification box. Mark the checkbox for creating the backup of scanned file
6.Click 'Repair' to repair the corrupted PST.


Note: Inbox Repair Tool has less chances of repairing the PST if it has been damaged by third-party add-ins and by similar causes. If you cannot recover your folders by this tool, it is suggested to opt for a powerful third-party PST repair utility, such as: http://www.recover-computerdata.com/outlook-pst-repair.html

Advanced Inbox Repair Tool application is an exclusive tool designed for effective scanning and restoring the file contents to a safe location. Supporting MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, this tool can Repair Inbox with all its objects like, e-mails, notes, calendar, contacts, and others.