Outlook pst file corruption when used over LAN or WAN

Generally In an enterprise where file server is used to store emails messages for users, having there data storage path redirected to these storage servers, either a standalone server or an array inside a NAS box is used to store personal storage files i.e. PST. The trend of using PST files over network either on a LAN or WAN is not the recommended way of accessing a PST file by Microsoft.

According to Microsoft their MS-Exchange team never had plans to design PST file, but to have a user maintain a copy of emails in his local machine they provided support in terms creating a PST file locally. A .pst file is a file access driven process to store messages, where Operating System sends special commands to the file system to read and write the data to disk. This methodology is not intended to work over network as then Outlook tries to send file access commands over network and this creates lot of overheads on the server and file system managing those files on hard drives. In case when the connection fails or configurationally any changes happen to the file read or write requests, the .pst file gets corrupted.

DD PST Repair can repair such .pst files with ease and valuable data can be rescued from those corrupted .pst files to new healthy .pst files created by PST Repair software.