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We have had issues with our Outlook/Exchange Public folders for some time. During our ongoing support with Microsoft over the issue, we were told to export our entire public folder store to a PST file. By default, the maximum size of a PST for Outlook 2016 is 50 GB, however we have come across posts and videos that say we can increase this size (as long as we have the available resources), but our PF store is almost of 650GB in size. Will Outlook even be able to open a PST of this size or is the 50GB limit only the default for what can be written out?
BTW, we have increased the registry settings (per this link and others) to allow a larger PST and now have it up to 230GB and counting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Mfd-OEWk8
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We decided against exporting the massive PST and are using our existing/modified automation to extract individual PST's of all folders, which will then be used to re-seed a newly rebuilt Public Folder. Thanks for your help
Yea, its going to probably give you problems with psts that large. Even if you can open them.
Can you break/export into smaller psts?
Yes we can, but It's just over 1000 different folders which range from empty to 15 GB (about 150 over 1 GB). Is there a way to export in 50GB chunks? When I've tried it, I get a single 50GB PST that contains the entire folder tree but only contains emails from the top down to a certain point where it reaches the 50 Gb limit. How would I continue on from the folder/point it stops at and generate another 50GB PST (and so on)? Is that even possible? These exported PST's are not meant to be used long term but just as a backup/temporary way of helping us rebuild our public folders.
Ugh, yea not really a good way to do that. Im surprised Msoft suppor suggested this actually.
We decided against exporting the massive PST and are using our existing/modified automation to extract individual PST's of all folders, which will then be used to re-seed a newly rebuilt Public Folder. Thanks for your help
Sounds good. If you can , please mark an answer as accepted so this can be closed. thanks!