No, you can't setup a dummy Exchange account as the first thing it will want to do is configure it.
If you can open Outlook offline, does it open your .ost file? There is a program you can use to convert your .ost to a .pst
http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2003/07/ost_to_pst.html
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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reading.
After furious head scratching, My-Dog-Ate-My-Contacts asked:
| I am no longer able to connect to this particular Exchange server.
|
| Is it possible for me to open the .OST file without connecting to the
| server? Possibly by setting up a temporary Exchange email account in
| Outlook, choosing offline mode and pointing it to the .OST file I
| have?
|
| Thanks again for the replies.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| If you can reconnect to the Exchange server and connect to that
|| mailbox, all of your data will be there.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, My-Dog-Ate-My-Contacts asked:
||
||| I've found 3 .pst files, none of which display any contacts when I
||| open the files in Outlook and switch to the Contacts window.
|||
||| Another clue that may be meaningful is that the old email account
||| (that I deleted from Outlook) was using an exchange server. I had
||| assumed my contact data was stored on my local machine, but now I'm
||| wondering if the default is to store this data on the server and I
||| neglected to override the default.
|||
||| When I add an Outlook email account that attaches to an Exchange
||| server, and then I manually enter contacts in Outlook (via the
||| Actions menu->New Contact...File->Save), will those contacts be
||| stored locally, or will the contacts be stored on the server?
|||
||| Thanks for your reply.
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Search for .pst files and open them in Outlook. Chances are that
|||| the one with the most recently modified date holds your data.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, My-Dog-Ate-My-Contacts asked:
||||
||||| Outlook (2003) unexpectedly has deleted all contact and calendar
||||| info after I created a new Outlook email account, then deleted an
||||| old Outlook email account.
|||||
||||| I had no idea my contact info and calendar were associated with a
||||| particualr email account. Have I found a defect, or is this to be
||||| expected (need to know for the future).
||||| Is there any way to recover the missing contact data? I do have a
||||| large .OST file that I assume was associated with the deleted
||||| email account. Is there a way to import this or load this file
||||| and copy portions to a new PST?
|||||
||||| Any help would be appreciated.
