Has anyone had luck with deadbox exams and extraction of Outlook 2011 data stores - cases where you don't have access to the machine to do a OLM export in Outlook 2011?
You can copy the entire 'Office 2011 identities' folder to a lab Mac (or VM running OS X) with Outlook 2011 and export to OLM from there. You don't need the credentials to open the profile(s).
- Lars
Ok so what I have been testing. Move the folder "Office 2011 Identities" (example path \Macintosh HD\Users\JOE4N6S\Documents\Microsoft User Data\Office 2011 Identities\)
to a live box into a user folder path under "Microsoft User Data" - Outlook will look for the email database here. Open Outlook. It then asks to rebuild the database (may or may not happen in other situations), Outlook will close. Open Outlook once data rebuild is done then export to OLM. Then will have to convert to PST with something like Emailchemy.
Still testing but seems to be a way to do it.
Ok so what I have been testing. Move the folder "Office 2011 Identities" (example path \Macintosh HD\Users\JOE4N6S\Documents\Microsoft User Data\Office 2011 Identities\)
to a live box into a user folder path under "Microsoft User Data" - Outlook will look for the email database here. Open Outlook. It then asks to rebuild the database (may or may not happen in other situations), Outlook will close. Open Outlook once data rebuild is done then export to OLM. Then will have to convert to PST with something like Emailchemy.
Still testing but seems to be a way to do it.
That's exactly right. We've seen fairly significant discrepancies between the size of the native database and the exported OLM, but spot checks suggested all the live messages were included.
Back in October, the Emailchemy developer indicated on their support forum that they were working on an update to convert the native data format with the 'highest priority'
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but they just put out v11.2 without the feature so who knows if that's still being worked on.
- Lars
Here is what I have come across in a particular data set is the
../Office 2011 Identities/Main Identity/
"Database" <-file was not part of the set.
This file is usually left out by Time Machine and other back up solutions
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The Database file can also get corrupted by anti-virus solutions or access from other 3rd party programs.
This will require that the database tool to be run to recreate a new Database file. It will go across the Data Records directory and subs and place a new Database file in the /Main Identity folder.
In the instance I am working with there seems to be some issue the indices being rebuilt and none of the messages are being displayed.
Time to keep digging.