How do I synchronize outlook.ost with the Microsoft Exchange Serve

[Prindaville]

I am running Outlook 2002 SP3 on Win XP Pro SP1. I plan to upgrade to SP2,
but I haven't done it yet.

Under Tools | Send/Receive Settings, I have checked Make This Folder
Available Offline.

I recently moved a large number of messages from my Inbox to a Personal
Folder which is not stored on the Exchange Server, but instead is stored on a
separate server and backed up on a flash drive on my own computer.

This reduced the size of my Outlook Today mailbox on the Exchange Server to
246 MB -- counting both Inbox and Sent Items as indicated via Tools | Mailbox
Cleanup | Ckick here to see the size of your mailbox.

However, my outlook.ost file remains at 555 MB.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook will compact the .ost file as it finds free time on your machine.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Prindaville]

I thought so, too, but this did not occur over the course of the past day.
However, shortly after posting my query, I discovered Knowledge Base article
289987. Method 2 took about 3 hours, but it worked. Now my outlook.ost file
is 274 MB.