{"id":282,"date":"2008-02-04T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T23:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/archives\/282"},"modified":"2008-11-16T16:28:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T23:28:20","slug":"how-to-configure-the-size-limit-for-both-pst-and-ost-files-in-outlook-2007-and-in-outlook-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/how-to-configure-the-size-limit-for-both-pst-and-ost-files-in-outlook-2007-and-in-outlook-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure the size limit for both .pst and .ost files in Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 supports both American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and UNICODE personal folders (.pst) and offline folder (.ost) files. You can use the following four registry entries to limit the size of both the .pst and the .ost files:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022    The MaxFileSize registry entry<br \/>\n\u2022    The WarnFileSize registry entry<br \/>\n\u2022    The MaxLargeFileSize registry entry<br \/>\n\u2022    The WarnLargeFileSize registry entry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong> The WarnLargeFileSize and WarnFileSize registry entries do not enable Outlook to warn you before the file size limit is reached.<\/p>\n<p>The default values for these entries are:<\/p>\n<p>MaxLargeFileSize = 20 GB<\/p>\n<p>WarnLargeFileSize = 19 GB<\/p>\n<p>MaxFileSize = 1.933 GB<\/p>\n<p>WarnFileSize = 1.816 GB<\/p>\n<p>The policy location for the registry entries is \t\t  located in the following path in Registry Editor.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"tocHeadRef\">Outlook 2007<\/h4>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nloadTOCNode(3, \\\\\\'summary\\\\\\');\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Office\\12.0\\Outlook\\PST<\/p>\n<p>The user preference location for the registry entries is located \t\t  in the following path in Registry Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\12.0\\Outlook\\PST<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"tocHeadRef\">Outlook 2003<\/h4>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nloadTOCNode(3, \\\\\\'summary\\\\\\');\n\/\/ --><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Office\\11.0\\Outlook\\PST<\/p>\n<p>The user preference location for the registry entries is located \t\t  in the following path in Registry Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\11.0\\Outlook\\PST<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">\n<p>Check out Microsoft&#8217;s KB article <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/832925\">832925<\/a> for more details on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 supports both American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and UNICODE personal folders (.pst) and offline folder (.ost) files. You can use the following four registry entries to limit the size of both the .pst and the .ost files: \u2022 The MaxFileSize registry entry \u2022 The WarnFileSize registry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange-outlook","category-tips-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}