Archive Manager cannot connect to Exchange or archived messages cannot be opened - reinstall Outlook (Office) (4292652)

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Sometimes it might be needed to re-install Outlook or to upgrade Outlook to a newer version. The usual and recommended way would be, to uninstall the old version of Outlook using 'Control Panel' - 'Programs and Features' but sometimes there might appear issues on uninstalling Outlook where an error might appear or where it might not be possible to uninstall Outlook properly. 

This article is meant to refer to the Technet articles shown below, in case if the usual way to uninstall Outlook,  using 'Control Panel' - 'Programs and Features', would not work and would leave the uninstallation incomplete, improper or with error.

Please note - the reference shown below would include removal of the complete Office Suite, not only of Outlook.

This Technet article describes how to completely and properly remove Office from a computer:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/uninstall-office-from-a-pc-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

Option 1 shows how to remove Office using the Control Panel. Supposed this has already been done in the first place, but due to errors or broken installation, Office couldn't get uninstalled properly - then the following options 2 + 3 should then be considered to remove Office completely:

Option 2 offers to download the 'Offscrub' tool which you can use to completely remove Office:
Choose the version of Office you want to remove, download the tool and run it as administrator on the computer where you want to remove Office.
This tool will remove Office completely, and after removal you would have a computer on where you can install Office in a new way like as Office would not have been installed previously. 

Option 3 describes the steps how to manually remove Office. This does virtually the same as Option 2, but instead of running the tool which removes Office, this option describes the steps to remove Office manually:

to remove Office 2016 and newer or Office 365 follow this instructions:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manually-uninstall-office-4e2904ea-25c8-4544-99ee-17696bb3027b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#officeversion=2016

to remove Office 2013, follow this instructions:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manually-uninstall-office-4e2904ea-25c8-4544-99ee-17696bb3027b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#officeversion=2013

to remove Office 2010, follow this instructions:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manually-uninstall-office-4e2904ea-25c8-4544-99ee-17696bb3027b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#officeversion=2010

to manually remove Office 2007, follow this instructions:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manually-uninstall-office-4e2904ea-25c8-4544-99ee-17696bb3027b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#officeversion=2007