Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Many folks are looking to get rid of .PST files in their organization – especially with the introduction of Office 365 to their company. 

Some want to get rid of them because they’re a cause of dissatisfaction & help desk calls for their users.  Others are concerned that it’s a legal liability to have old email stored away in an archive that they may be responsible for from a eDiscovery standpoint.

Either way, there are tools available to help you inspect systems throughout your network for these “buried” .PST files:

• Microsoft Exchange PST Capture 2.0
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36789
• Time to go PST hunting with the new PST Capture 2.0
  http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/02/22/time-to-go-pst-hunting-with-the-new-pst-capture-2-0.aspx
• Documentation: Microsoft Exchange PST Capture
  https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036.aspx

Alternatively, if PST Capture doesn’t do everything you need it to do, there’s 3rd party tools:

• Quadrotech PSTFlightDeck
  http://www.quadrotech-it.com/products/pstflightdeck/