So recently we had to move to another exchange server and migrated all data over. Some PC's running outlook had to have their account in outlook recreated (By going into Account settings and removing the account and creating the account), while others needed to have the profile removed from the control panel >> Mail settings.
The issue is, some of the users were using contact groups they created within outlook to mass email clients. However, upon recreating the user's outlook accounts these group contacts no longer appear. Looks like instead of saving to the exchange server, it was being saved locally. They are using Outlook 2010
The old/original .ost files still exist. The accounts were just removed within outlook but no files have been deleted.
I am trying to figure out the following things:
Is there a way to recover the contact groups?
Is there a way to make the contacts groups created locally by the end user, save to the server?
Where does the data for the contact groups save to?
Thank you.