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Getting to Know the OST Integrity Check Tool

You may feel a little concerned when you get occasional error messages as you try to synchronize your Outlook Offline Storage Files (OST) with your mailbox that is located on a server. In fact, at times, the problems get a little more serious with you noticing items missing from your offline files like missing emails or addresses. You may notice this particularly after you have just finished synchronizing your OST file and your mailbox. Rather than wait till the file becomes more damaged, it is best that you use the inbuilt OST Integrity Check Tool indicated by Scanost.exe, to scan and repair the OST file. If the file is damaged beyond what the Integrity tool is capable of repairing, you may need to take the help of other advanced solutions to recover exchange data.

Let us first however, focus on the OST Integrity Check Tool. This tool can run only on the Offline Storage Files, i.e. OST files but is a very effective tool that can quickly scan the file and diagnose where the cause of the problem lies. If you wish to, you can proceed to repair typical synchronization issues with the help of this tool. When you start running the tool, it first scans both the offline storage file as well as the actual mailbox that resides on the server running Exchange. A quick comparison between the items stored offline and online is made and the differences noted. The tool then immediately tries to take steps to ensure that a proper synchronization occurs between the two files and notes down the steps taken in a scan log that is usually stored in the Deleted Items folder. Before you turn to third-party software to help you recover exchange data, you should give the Integrity Tool a chance to be able to synchronize and recover data without too much trouble.

The Integrity Tool not only fixes whatever repairs it can, it also indicates to you, the user, problems that it could only identify but could not fix. You may then need to fix these errors manually. You can also go through the scan log to understand what kind of discrepancies were found and what steps the Integrity Tool took to ensure proper synchronization.

You should bear in mind that if you would like to use the Integrity Check Tool, you need to be connected to the Exchange account. Only then can the tool properly scan the online mailbox and the items contained in it. Also, the tool does not really change the mailbox on the server ' it merely records the discrepancies found between the mailbox and the offline files so that synchronization occurs properly.