How to Resolve Outlook Error 0x800ccc0f?

Everything worked properly till yesterday but today when I opened MS Outlook email application and tried to send/receive email message, get an error message:

Task 'server name - Sending and Receiving' reported error (0x800ccc0f): 'The connection to the server was interrupted. …..

I tried to search out the exact reason of this problem and found that this error message appears in MS Outlook and Outlook Express due to the following reasons:


i) Connectivity issue in Network/Internet
ii) Incorrect profile settings configuration in Outlook
iii) Incorrect server settings
iv) Antivirus/windows firewall has blocked the messages
v) Outlook profile or  data has been damaged

Detailed information about this Outlook Error 0x800ccc0f message, is available in this Microsoft KB article:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813514

During the search operation, I found the following solutions to work around this problem:

1) Check your Network connectivity and Server settings
2) If solution 1 dos not help you to fix the issue, disable the Anti-virus program to scan the Outlook data if it is already enabled.
3) Check your profile settings and make necessary correction if it is not correct
4) Delete your current profile and recreate a new profile
5) If you still facing the Outlook Error 0x800ccc0f during the Send/Receive task after you verified above settings, you may either contact to PSS or use a Outlook PST repair tool to work around this problem easily.

How to Repair Damaged Outlook PST and Fix Outlook Error 0x800ccc0f?

If you continue encounter this error message, you might have a damaged or corrupted PST file. It could also due to oversized PST file. In order to repair and solve this outlook error you may run either inbuilt scanpst.exe tool or a third party PST repair software.

Note: Above solutions will work fine with all versions of MS Outlook including Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013.

When above solutions did not worked in my case, then I ran scanpst utility against this outlook data file but no success. At last, I downloaded a third party Outlook PST repair software as recommended by many MVPs and users on the web. Here is the link of that tool: http://www.outlook-pstrepair.com/

 Finally, I resolved this problematic Outlook Error 0x800ccc0f message with the help of this third party application.