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PST File Management and PST File Migration Tips and Tricks

Managing and migrating your PST files can be a tricky undertaking. Here, we have tips, tricks and best practices for how to store, organize, find and utilize PST files.

Preparing for an E-Discovery Search

by Shoshana Mahler on May 7, 2012

Many people become puzzled when responding to an e-Discovery request.  Often times, a person will begin searching and not realize that some preparations should to be made prior to doing so.  To save time (and therefore money), it is a good idea to ask the following questions as soon as you get an e-Discovery request: [...]

Keep it to Yourself

by Rick Wilson on May 7, 2012

April was officially recognized by the Association of Records Management and Administrators (ARMA) as Records & Information Management month. This year’s theme is ‘Keep it to Yourself’, a campaign to raise awareness about the sensitive nature of electronically stored information (ESI).  Executives and employees alike need to be reminded that information is one of the [...]

The ability to locate PST files and import them into Exchange mailboxes has long been a favorite feature within Sherpa’s Mail Attender for Exchange. With the most recent update to Mail Attender 4.7 SP1, we’ve added the ability to deduplicate (or single instance) PST files during the import process. This is a great new addition [...]

The following post is part six of a nine part video/blog series on e-discovery in Microsoft Exchange 2010. In last week’s post, Paul and Marta discussed some of the litigation hold features that Exchange 2010 offers. In this week’s segment, they’ll discuss personal archives and some of the challenges that come along with managing PST [...]

First View of Report Attender

by Marta Farensbach on March 12, 2012

Sherpa Software’s new data analysis tool, Report Attender, will soon be released to the eager public.  This program helps end-users make decisions and answer questions by categorizing files and messages from network shares and email stores.  Organizations will be able to gather and distill important details about their electronically stored information through a practical, user-friendly [...]

Comparing Mail Attender and PST Capture

by Rick Wilson on March 5, 2012

If you follow the topic of email management then you probably know Microsoft recently released PST Capture, their free utility for importing PST data into Exchange 2010. Since several analysts have already reviewed the utility (I’d recommend Tony Redmond’s piece) I would like to take a different approach in this post and highlight the advantages [...]