Exchange 2013 Recovery, use OST files

Hello

Please your help.

We have the following scenario:

A farm of Exchange 2013 Servers, due to a power supply failure, all of the information is corrupted including the backups.

So far a installation in recovery mode has been done, but as long as the backups are not available; when the users configure their Outlook client, the OST file is overwrited and all the mailbox data is gone. All of the users use Outlook as email client.

What we want is to synchronize the mailbox data from the OST files, the normal process would be to convert the OST to PST and the import it into the user's mailbox.

Is there a way where the Outlook clients automatically synchronize the data from the OST to the Exchange mailbox Database without the requirement of the previous OST to PST convertion and import process??

Any help is welcome!

December 11th, 2014 7:44pm


Is there a way where the Outlook clients automatically synchronize the data from the OST to the Exchange mailbox Database without the requirement of the previous OST convertion and import process??


If you are creating new mailboxes, then no. 
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December 11th, 2014 9:38pm

You can't import OST file in Exchange. You data should be in PST file only before importing on Exchange server. However, you can use any third party software to recover data from corrupt Exchange mailbox.

December 12th, 2014 5:19am

You can't import OST file in Exchange. You data should be in PST file only before importing on Exchange server. However, you can use any third party software to recover data from corrupt Exchange mailbox.

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December 12th, 2014 8:19am

have you tried New-MailboxExportRequest and New-MailboxImportRequest already ?

December 12th, 2014 8:51am

Hi,

There is no way to synchronize the data from the OST to the Exchange mailbox. You need to convert to PST file and then import to Exchange mailbox.

Best regards,

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December 12th, 2014 9:38am

Agreed with above mentioned suggestions.

However if you wish, you can get help using third party solution like, (http://www.lepide.com/exchange-manager/restore-ost.html) to restore OST into live exchange server without interruption.

December 12th, 2014 1:11pm

Yes, I was thinking Lepide...

Otherwise, make a copy of the .OST files that have not already been overwritten, since that is apparently the only remaining source of the mailbox data.

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December 12th, 2014 5:31pm

I recommended you!I have find a good solution to quickly repair my corrupt outlook.ost files 7gb data and then completely convert it an outlook.pst file 2013 format fruitfully load.

Get helps third party solution like

http://www.softwareimperial.com/ost-recovery.html

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December 13th, 2014 2:51am

Hi,

Is there any update on this issue?

Best regards,

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December 15th, 2014 4:21am

Try also Kernel for OST to PST recovery software . Visit for more information http://www.en.osttopst.org/
  • Edited by gegaplex Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:08 AM
December 15th, 2014 6:08am

Try also Kernel for OST to PST recovery software . Visit for more information http://www.en.osttopst.org/
  • Edited by gegaplex Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:08 AM
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December 15th, 2014 9:08am

Hi Hotaka

Sure!, we used New-MailboxImportRequest to import the PST files into the mailboxes.

New-MailboxExportRequest is used to export the data from the mailbox, but the databases are not available.

Regards.

December 17th, 2014 11:01pm

Thank you Belinda, I think that solves our doubt.
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December 17th, 2014 11:30pm

Thank you Naveen

Very useful tool!

December 17th, 2014 11:31pm

Hi Belinda

You're so kind.

You gave us the answer. Thank you!

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December 17th, 2014 11:32pm

Well, on the basis of your current situation where even the backup file is corrupted then you are only left with a single option i.e. to convert OST data into PST file format so that you could be able to access it via Outlook platform.

But if you want to, then you can give Scanost.exe tool a try may be if the corruption level is minimal then this command will help you to scan OST file in which it will check the synchronization between Exchange and OST file and if any trouble occurs it will resolve it right away. But if still the problem persists the same way, then all you can do is to perform conversion from OST file to PST

  • Proposed as answer by Joshua-Jones Friday, January 09, 2015 6:40 AM
January 9th, 2015 6:35am

Well, on the basis of your current situation where even the backup file is corrupted then you are only left with a single option i.e. to convert OST data into PST file format so that you could be able to access it via Outlook platform.

But if you want to, then you can give Scanost.exe tool a try may be if the corruption level is minimal then this command will help you to scan OST file in which it will check the synchronization between Exchange and OST file and if any trouble occurs it will resolve it right away. But if still the problem persists the same way, then all you can do is to perform conversion from OST file to PST

  • Proposed as answer by Joshua-Jones Friday, January 09, 2015 6:40 AM
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January 9th, 2015 9:35am

If you want to recover OST file data without omitted any information from the corrupt OST file, then use OST Recovery Software that has high accurate potential to get back OST file with full security.

Read More:- http://www.osttopstconverter-tool.com/ost-recovery.html
February 9th, 2015 2:09am

Use OST recovery Software and extract OST files email data and save extracted data to PST. Read more and free download click here :- http://www.ostrecovery.recoverfilesdata.com/


 
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