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Optrium • Newsletter Mars 2021
Antoine BERTHIER
 

Antoine BERTHIER

President

PST Files: Migration's forgotten archive

 

While migrating email to Office 365 has become a routine operation, resuming “before” PSTs turns out to be the big overlook in migration projects and this can present several challenges.

Managed by users (on their work stations or on shares), PSTs escape IT radars in terms of backup, control, compliance, discovery and accessibility…

Ignoring these PSTs in a messaging consolidation project leads to a loss of history of exchanges, projects, technical and commercial evidential values..

Transvault Insight makes it possible to remedy this vulnerability in a simple and effective way. Firstly, by scanning workstations and servers in order to discover the PSTs present in the IS. Then, by repatriating them (and filtering them if necessary) to a storage intended for consolidation or migration. During this process, Transvault Insight reassigns each of the PSTs to its original owner via a deep scan of its content.

From an operational point of view, Transvault Insight is based on proven technology and guarantees data integrity through a secure and transparent migration of PSTs to your chosen target (O365, EXCHANGE, etc…).

As a result, the whole of the company’s PST content becomes available and usable on the company’s new platforms.

Don’t get rid of them! They are all detectable and migratable via this fully automated tool.

Transvault

TRANSVAULT INSIGHT

Transvault Insight enables the recovery and processing of PSTs. But how does this solution work from a technical point of view?
And what are the advantages?
Jean-Baptiste Ibar, project manager at Optrium gives an update

Transvault Insight is an IT solution which is conventionally deployed from several infrastructure elements: a master server to manage the configuration which coordinates operations, collectors and agents who apply the directives on client work stations or network shares. There are no specific pre-requisites; all you need is an MSSQL database.

The solution is easily deployed on all IS.

To clarify, the recovery works in stages:

  • Scan of the various work stations and/or network shares to establish a list of existing PSTs
  • Partial or total recovery of PSTs (the administrator decides). All sorts of filters are possible in the event of partial recovery (date, user, object, directory etc).
  • Detection of PST owners.
  • Reassignment then automatic migration to a target mailbox.

In terms of functionality the following useful point should be noted, that it is possible to recover PSTs opened in Outlook.

This solution is suitable for all types of IS, including those of large scale multinationals. It not only allows for batch operation, but also offers a precise level of analysis (at the item level) as well as advanced automation and monitoring. The different processes can be automated; it is possible to prepare the tasks on the master server according to the selected days and times.

A dashboard allows you to monitor the progress of PST management policies as well as monitoring migration over time.

Another useful aspect is that it is possible to combine the Transvault Insight strategy with Windows settings in order to prevent new PSTs being created by users. This is a good way to ensure that the situation does not recur after the scan has been done.

Transvault Insight is a truly complete and stand-alone solution which meets a need that is sometimes forgotten with regard to major email migrations. Its big advantage is that it is deployed over the whole IS and goes through all targeted client or server work stations. Processing is transparent to users and ensures business continuity.

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