Repairing OST Files In Outlook

If you are using Microsoft Outlook as your primary email application, you will be enjoying access to numerous useful and advanced options. These include a calendar, journals, task manager etc. which you can use to organize and manage the important events in your life. In addition to these, there are also options available in Outlook that help in the safe storage of personal as well as other contact information. The personal information of the users is stored in specific file folders known as personal storage tables or PST files.

Now, whenever the Internet connection is available, the changes you have made in the Outlook application get synchronized with the Microsoft Exchange Server. In the Outlook email setup, OST files are known as a copy of the mailbox on Exchange Server and are stored in the hard drive of the system. But sometimes, you may find the information missing from these file folders. This can happen if the OST files become corrupted.

You can try the following methods to fix PST file corruption in the Outlook email setup.

Using OST Integrity Check Tool

• The OST Integrity Check tool is a built-in repair tool, which helps in fixing the corrupted OST files. This program easily scans both the OST and mailbox file running on MS Exchange server. 
• According to the Outlook tech support team, this tool will help in comparing items and folders in each file. This in turn helps in fixing the synchronization differences between these folders. However, for using the services of this tool, it is important to get connected to the Exchange account server. 

Instructions to repair OST file error using Scanost.exe:

• At first, you need to close the Microsoft Outlook application. Now, you can open Scanost.exe by double clicking on the program.
• Next, you need to select the specific OST file, which needs to be repaired among the available list of files.
• In the next step, you can click on Connect, if you get an option to Connect or Work Offline. You can select your desired option from these.
• Now, you can go ahead and select the Repair Errors checkbox. This will ensure the automatic resolving of the errors while scanning the corrupted OST files.
• Now, you can click on the Begin Scan option.

These instructions can help you in successfully fixing the corrupt OST files in Outlook. To get further assistance on fixing such Outlook issues, feel free to contact our technical support team.

The Outlook Vs Gmail War

Microsoft consolidated all of their email services like Live, Hotmail and Outlook to a single email service last year in an effort to make the email service more powerful and widespread. Until recent years, the technical community has without any disputes agreed to the fact that Gmail and Google will be dominating the electronic messages community in the future. However, Microsoft introduced their Outlook.com email service in an effort to get back the post that was rightfully theirs. Google took the zenith position in the email services industry from Microsoft’s Hotmail email service by introducing the Gmail service.

With the presence of new advanced features in Outlook.com, Microsoft is planning to take the zenith position again. It is heard that the company has made many improvements in their webmail service. The company has included better and advanced rules for managing the emails perfectly and in an ordered manner. Microsoft has even included an import tool for helping Gmail users with the Outlook email setup. With this new tool in place, switching to Outlook email from Gmail has become a hassle free process.

The company has also made some new advanced rules in the Outlook.com so that you will be able to set you inbox in an ordered manner. Microsoft posted about this in their Outlook email setup website saying, "This can be a lot to handle, so helping you get to the email you care about is one of our top priorities, you will be getting more control over how your emails are sorted, filed or bumped to the top of your inbox. You can create multi-condition and multi-action rules and set your inbox to organize itself automatically. Advanced Rules allow you to combine your existing rules together and customize them to suit you."

The main feature of Outlook Rules is that it is pretty easy to configure them; even a person with little knowledge about the program will be able to sort his emails easily using the Rules in outlook.com. One of the new features of the email service is the Reply-In button, clicking on this button will allow the users to see the message and the reply message side by side, there is no need for opening a new box or page for sending the reply. With all these new features, it is for sure that Microsoft is set to conquer the email market again.

How To Setup An Email Account With Outlook 2007 From Home

Emailing has great significance in modern day communication. Today we can send and receive messages at real time with the advancement of technology. There are also other messaging or communication services like instant chat, audio and video call etc that will let you keep in touch with your dear and near ones. Microsoft Outlook is one such email client program that will help you manage your different email accounts with ease.
Below mentioned are Outlook email setup instructions to configure an Internet e-mail account through Outlook 2007.

Instructions

• Launch Outlook 2007 on your computer. 
• Go to the Tools menu and select Account Settings.
• This will bring up the Account Settings dialog box. Now click on the E-mail tab to open the Account Settings window.
• Click the New button to open the Add New Email Account window.
• Here you need to enter your email address and password information correctly. Click the Next button.
• You will now get a configuration screen and Outlook will try to automatically configure your email account. At the end of this process, you might probably get either of the two responses.
• If Outlook is successful in configuring your email account, the Congratulations screen appears and all you need to do is to click the Finish button to complete the process. 
• If Outlook is unable to automatically configure your email account, you may continue with the following steps. 
• Select the checkbox next to Manually Configure Server Settings.
• Click the radio button for the Server Type that your e-mail provider requires. Here you may choose the option E-mail. Click the Next button. The will bring you a new configuration window. 
• Here you need to provide the settings that your email provider requires. Though each email service differs, most of them can tell you how to make their e-mail work with Outlook.
• Now click the Test Account Settings button to open the Test Account Settings dialog box. This will show you what is happening while Outlook tests the entered settings to see if you got everything right.
• Now you need to click the Close button to close the Test Account Settings dialog box.
• Click the Next button.
• The Congratulations screen appears. Take a moment to feel the thrill of success.
• Finally click the Finish button.

Now that you have successfully configured your email account with Outlook 2007, you can start sending and receiving emails from home. If you have issues with Outlook Email Setup, you can contact Outlook tech support team to get further assistance.