
# By: Christopher Miller Dated:, LastMod: # Prepare for cleaning/rebuilding User's Outlook 2016 database Feel free to use, it seems to be working for us.įOLLOWUP EDIT: I've added a link on a comment below on GitHub for a cleaner display of text. I tried making this a little easier for our field technicians and wrapped it into an AppleScript App. Luckily someone made a post on how to do this on a SQLite database which Outlook 2016 uses. Well, we still need to do this when cleaning a system.

Outlook 2016 has removed this feature and the official support from Microsoft is that Outlook will determine when a database needs rebuilt and users shouldn't do this anyway. Under Outlook 2011 Mac, this was performed simply by holding the option key during launch and rebuilding the mail database. This also means rebuilding the email database to ensure the deleted emails CAN'T be recovered.

The usual avenue for this data finding it's way onto a system is email and we must purge the targeted email in conducting the 'cleaning' of the system.

Our facility must sometimes 'clean' a system when data that's not supposed to be in the open, ends up in the open and on a system.
