QUADRO tech. PST Flightdeck. Put your PST Migration on autopilot

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1 QUADRO tech PST Flightdeck Put your PST Migratio o autopilot

2 Put your PST Migratio o Autopilot A moder aircraft hardly remids its pilots of the early days of air traffic. It is desiged to eable flyig as a busiess process for airlie compaies aroud the world. It takes complexity out of the process, provides safety warigs ad allows the pilots to cocetrate o what really matters. Now you ca imagie why we called our PST Migratio System PST FlightDeck. It is the «autopilot» for your PST migratio project. PST migratios require more steps tha obvious ad i most eviromets the uforesee circumstaces require costat attetio by IT staff. For may files there is o safe way of eumeratig owership, Users call i because they caot fid their data, a large umber of files fail to migrate because of passwords ad fially the legal departmet wats some data to be expired or filtered. Ad these are just a few examples. With Exchage 2010 or Symatec s Eterprise Vault there is a automated way of importig PST files: This works pretty well as log as the files are ot corrupt, the users have closed their mail cliet ad the data is accessible over a fast etwork coectio. But is this the corporate reality? May orgaizatios with thousads of PSTs demad much tha that: They wat a system for maagig PST files from cradle to grave ad with support for all the glitches ad issues that are hidde i those TBs of legacy data. Key Features Flexible file system crawler for fidig PSTs o all devices. Cetral web-based cosole for maagig all tasks from a sigle dashboard with role-based rights for admiistrators ad operators across differet sites. Prioritizatio of users accordig to departmet, site ad other Active Directory properties. User commuicatio egie with customized s ad web-based traiig facilities. Migratio Aget that sapshots PSTs while Outlook is ruig ad uploads the data to the closest Flightdeck server. Full cotrol over all relevat cliet ad Outlook settigs from the dashboard, without the eed to ever logi to the ed-user s machie. A simple PST file selectio dialogue for ed-users to cofirm ad au thorize the migratio ad a optioal Doate file optio for addig files o removable media. Uploads that are badwidth aware ad seamlessly cotiue after etwork outages. A cetral backup facility that allows ed-user access to uploaded PSTs e.g. for filtered data. Full project moitorig ad reportig, with maagemet summaries, capacity plaig reports ad full chai of custody audits for all users ad files. Stadard igestio modules for Microsoft Exchage 2010 or 2013, Office 365 ad Symatec Eterprise Vault. (Cotact us for itegratios with other archive or mail-server solutios)

3 QUADRO tech Busiess Beefits Migrate faster: No more messig aroud with failed igestios. Migrate with cofidece: Predictable results ad highest possible success rate. Fid all the files: The Flightdeck cliet is the fastest scaer for PST files ad fids files o devices ad locatios that other me chaisms ted to exclude. Automate stadard tasks: No more maual password removal, o more fixig of iterrupted igestios Protect the data: Automatic backups o cheap storage protect the user s data i ay case Save etwork badwidth: The Flightdeck cliet prevets failed uploads ad uses BITS for miimum overhead Save storage: De-duplicatio prevets redudat (Backup) PST igestios. Filterig old ad irrelevat data ca save additioal space. Keep users happy: All users get the relevat commuicatio - before, durig ad after the migratio. Keep users workig: PST sapshots allow the upload ad igestio while Outlook is ope. Maage cetrally: Eve i multi-site eviromets all actios ca be ru from a sigle Admiistratio cosole. You ca eve outsource certai tasks by publishig it via HTTP/S to exteral providers. Report progress: The dashboard ad reportig egie show exactly where you are i your project, how may files have bee foud, how may are queued ad how may have bee completed. Prove your actios: Full audit shows which files have bee touched whe & how, by which user or admi actio, whe they were migrated ad what issues were recorded. Ituitive Web Based Admi Iterface Cofigure, operate ad maage your migratio from a cetral dashboard that ca be securely published for exteral access.

4 How does it Work? Workig with ed-users ad cliet machies: Although most customers cosider PST Files o file servers a major problem, they are i fact the easiest files for a automated migratio. If files reside o a cliet machies or removable media the migratio becomes much more difficult: Is the machie switched o? Does it have the etwork badwidth to do a upload? Is Outlook still ope? The oly solutio is to build a advaced migratio cliet from the groud up ad purpose-built for this task. The PST Flightdeck Migratio cliet adds all ecessary features to fid, authorize, upload ad maage PST files o the cliet. Fids PSTs o local disks, etwork (home) shares ad removable media Ca create PST Sapshots while Outlook is ruig Optioal user iteractio for selectig or authorizig PST Files for upload ad deletio Acts as a maagemet proxy for all Flightdeck commads (Detach PST, Delete PST, etc.) Owership determiatio via Outlook profile, NTFS permissios ad file markig mechaism. Uploads PST data usig Microsoft BITS techology for cotiuig aborted dow loads ad hoourig available etwork badwidth Doate Files optio from the task tray, to allow users to upload files o removable media

5 QUADRO tech Server-side processig: Oce the PST files are uploaded to the server or retrieved from etwork shares, PST Flightdeck applies several post-processig tasks to the files to make sure that files will work 100% durig the igestio ad oly the data the compay wats will be migrated. This prevets the typical migratio issues that most customer see with the classic copy & migrate approach, where up to 30% of PST files fail because of file corruptio, passwords or usupported message classes. I short: We apply a pre-flight check to the file, so that whe it is moved to the igestio queue, you kow it will be uploaded without ay hiccups. Creates a full backup of the uploaded data o a geeric storage locatio Rebuilds the complete PST as Outlook Uicode file Optioally removes PST passwords Filters data based o age or message classes Advaced Owership eumeratio for legacy PST files based o file cotet. Idetifies ad correctly hadles Archive Shortcuts whe migratig to Exchage 2010/2013 or Cloud.

6 Maagemet Features: All actios i PST Flightdeck are maaged from a cetral web-cosole, where Operators ca maage PSTs by users, storage locatios or sites/regios. It is extremely easy to quickly check the status of the last migratios, swiftly act if ay issues occur ad to select the ext batch of files or users for the migratio queue. What used to be a full-time job ca ow be doe i miutes rather tha hours, o matter if you eed to migrate 2,000 or 200,000 PST files. Web-based Admiistratios Iterface that ca be published for multi-site or maaged migratio scearios. Roles-based admiistratio model splits duties betwee admiistrators, hotlie operators ad field support teams. Support for regios or sites where local staff eed limited rights to carry out support tasks. Complete cotrol over upload cliets, Outlook profile & registry settigs ad ed-user commuicatio Customizable s that iform users about the prerequisites, progress ad results of the migratio accordig to their file s schedule.

7 QUADRO tech Reportig ad audit features: A PST migratio ca be a log-term project that touches critical data ad trasforms its ature from a cliet file to a cetral iformatio repository. Durig that time, it is critical to keep track of the project s progress, the key decisios by ed-users ad admis ad the issues that might occur, if files are corrupt beyod repair. As might be part of a later e-discovery ad litigatio process, it is also critical to have a full audit about the migratio. This is exactly what Flightdeck provides. Curret progress reports are istatly available from the Admi Cosole s dashboard. Comprehesive reportig for maagemet purposes: Overall project statistics, progress, Issues & Errors, Capacity plaig Full audit reports ca be created for the whole project, selected users or selected files

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