Offline Folder Wizard

One widely-used Microsoft Outlook feature is offline access to a user’s mailbox folders. The offline folders (OST) file is stored on a user’s computer and keeps a local replica of the corresponding folders in the user’s Exchange mailbox.

Each OST file is associated with only one Exchange mailbox and cannot be used with any other mailbox. Therefore, a user cannot continue to use the same OST file with the new mailbox after mailbox migration to another Exchange server. However, you can migrate remote and laptop users transparently using Exchange Migration Wizard or Migration Manager. You can preserve offline folder (OST) files during migration by grouping the mailboxes of the remote users in Remote Users Collections and processing them separately from other mailbox collections.

To find out which mailboxes store their offline data in OST files and which do not, system administrators can use the Quest Offline Folder Wizard. The wizard analyzes the mailboxes of the selected servers and provides three lists: one containing the Distinguished Names of the mailboxes storing their offline data in the OST files, a second containing the Distinguished Names of the mailboxes not storing their offline data in the OST files, and a third containing a list of the errors that occurred when the wizard attempted to logon to mailboxes. The wizard can analyze both Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000/2003 servers.

Once you have a list of mailboxes that store data in OST files, you can add these mailboxes to Remote Users Collections and migrate them transparently.

Download the free Offline Folder Wizard today!