Post A9Fa2ad7iFrGceATJ2 by ndegruchy@mastodon.online
 (DIR) More posts by ndegruchy@mastodon.online
 (DIR) Post #A9FY5aqBBckEEgZy7M by ndegruchy@mastodon.online
       2021-07-13T12:56:53Z
       
       0 likes, 1 repeats
       
       PSTs. For when you want to lose those emails, but want to make it look like a corruption accident.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9FY92X6gQdwzVIl6G by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-07-13T15:14:52Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @ndegruchy Fun fact: You cannot store a PST in OneDrive for Business, making them very difficult to back up if you use the tools the way Microsoft seems to want you to.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9Fa2ad7iFrGceATJ2 by ndegruchy@mastodon.online
       2021-07-13T15:36:02Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @alexbuzzbee I am painfully aware of this restriction. Many of my clients are heavy PST users with ✨ Important ✨ Emails and no reliable backup. We've already had hundreds of gigabytes of PSTs corrupt and with no way to reliably offload these... it's had some contention in the communications team.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9FaRIHp3D6gyDz5nc by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-07-13T15:40:26Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @ndegruchy PSTs are just bad. They're badly designed and badly implemented and they work badly. Like a lot of pieces of Microsoft systems. Did you also know Azure AD doesn't let you set a minimum password length?
       
 (DIR) Post #A9Faljm6Yj9w12tfP6 by ndegruchy@mastodon.online
       2021-07-13T15:43:53Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @alexbuzzbee Considering there is only a half-assed attempt at traditional "policies"? I'm not shocked.PSTs are bad because it's a bad system of storing a large number of emails. A monolithic file with little to no tooling around repairing or recovering *some* of the files is just asking for bit-flipping. Even a standard zip file is more resilient than that.With the availability of online storage and Exchange being all online, why not just ingest them unless the users says otherwise?
       
 (DIR) Post #A9FaxtEVDiIIpAyTi4 by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-07-13T15:46:27Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @ndegruchy Our solution is to try to convince everyone to move their PSTs back into Exchange so they can stop being PSTs and get backed up with the rest of the email. The problem is we don't know who has PSTs.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9FbNLztPbp1H7Hbeq by ndegruchy@mastodon.online
       2021-07-13T15:51:00Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @alexbuzzbee Push a script out to run this function: https://github.com/ndegruchy/collect-user/blob/main/collect-user.ps1#L118-L158It'll connect to Outlook and scan for PSTs. I mean, you could just scan the disk for them, too, I guess.
       
 (DIR) Post #A9FeaQMIo79EQegm5Q by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-07-13T16:27:03Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @ndegruchy I think we have people with disconnected PSTs...
       
 (DIR) Post #A9Fee8goRWDSms3OzI by alexbuzzbee@fosstodon.org
       2021-07-13T16:27:43Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @ndegruchy But that sounds very handy nonetheless.