Now, as more applications are getting connected again, there is also a new wave of Outlook integrations. Most e-mail services are designed to connect with Outlook. Hosted mail like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail can be connected to Outlook with a simple setup. That means that these services can also be backed up with a local PST backup.
The earlier method of PST recovery included the use of EdgeSafe Control Station to manually restore the specified users/computers PST by EdgeSafe admins.
This method now deals with how a user can him/herself recover PST without any intervention of support staff.
In such a case, the Control Station is not required to start the recovery process.
The first step in this process is to define Agent Configuration in such a way as to enable the Restore tab from within the Backup Agents deployed to individual workstation.
To do this, select Configurations > Agent Configuration and place a check mark on the Restore box.
One important thing to remember once the above change is done. The Restore tab will only be visible from the Backup Agent in the user’s workstation when the user logs in and then logs out twice.
The following screen shows how the Backup Agent will appear with the enabled Restore button:
This mode of recovery of PST files that have been backed up earlier is done by EdgeSafe admins directly from the Control Station.
In order to access the GUI to do this, go to Recovery > EdgeSafe Admin PST Recovery tab from the main window of control station which will bring up the following screen:
It consists of the following input fields:
Corporate users as well as home users prefer Microsoft Outlook as their default email client for sending and receiving mails. It has been around for quite some time now - even before the advance of web based email applications.
The crux of Microsoft Outlook is a local data store where the user emails/messages are stored – it is called a Personal Storage Table (PST for short). Backing up emails and folders in Outlook would comprise of backing up the PST file on a regular basis.
For a single user, this is a relatively easy task. However, the magnitude of man hours as well as technical resources used for doing this in a corporate setting take a lot of time.
That is when EdgeSafe PST2PST comes into play.
The Settings section of the Control Station consists of an option called EdgeSafe services.
Selecting it brings up the following window where EdgeSafe user credentials are asked:
Once correct credentials are entered, the following confirmation windows are displayed:
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