Fix Issues While Upgrading to Outlook 2007 From Outlook 2003
Outlook 2007 is one of the latest version of MS Office and one of the most safe and reliable when compared to its earlier counterparts. It provides wide varieties of new features such as programmability options, integrated calendar snapshots, RSS aggregator etc. But, when users upgrade to this advanced Outlook 2007 version from 2003, some sort of file corruption or PST problems may occur. Upgrading to Outlook 2007 from earlier versions may result in the occurrence of several error messages.
Let us consider a practical scenario, in which you upgrade to 2007 from earlier version say Outlook 2003. But as you try to open MS Outlook, you may get the following error message:
"Borland database engine not installed. Can't load Corel address book service provider"
With the occurrence of this error message, Microsoft Outlook gets crashed. It may also make your critical files inaccessible and results in severe data loss consequences. In some cases you may also get this error although the above-mentioned service is not being used.
Causes
Issues when upgrading to Outlook 2007 can occur due to various reasons. Some of the most prominent reasons responsible for such issues and error messages includes incorrect upgrade, coral address book problems, PST corruption on account of virus infections, application malfunctioning, hardware failure etc.
How to overcome issues when upgrading to outlook 2007?
In order to overcome this problem you will have to detect all coral address book issues and try to troubleshoot the problem. If you are getting this problem due to incomplete upgrade, try to do a fresh upgrading again. Also uninstall MS Outlook and do a fresh reinstallation.
In case you are facing problems while upgrading to outlook 2007 from outlook 2003 due to corrupted PST files, take the help of Scanpst.exe application for scanning and repairing your corrupted PST files. However, this inbuilt tool efficiently resolves PST problems inside your system, in some cases it fails due to its limited functionalities. It mostly overcomes PST corruption occurred due to file header corruption. If using this tool you are still unable to overcome the problem you can go for third-party PST repair tool. These third-party applications are highly advanced in repairing corrupted PST files in almost all types of corruption scenarios.