pst flight deck

PST Flight Deck

Migrate PST files to Microsoft 365 with PST Flight Deck by Quest, a fixed-cost migration services engagement that provides hands-on expertise and outcomes. Find PST files across workstations, network locations, OneDrive for Business, and removable media – identifying ownership and migrating data to Microsoft 365 (including GCC and GCC High tenants) or Exchange.

This capability is now delivered as a dedicated migration services engagement, providing hands‑on expertise and outcomes, rather than a standalone licensed product.

PST migration services for Microsoft 365 and Exchange

Audit your entire PST footprint to identify ownership, remove passwords, restore corrupt files, highlight redundant files, and migrate PST to Microsoft 365 or on-premises Exchange. Once complete, retention and data management policies can be applied – ensuring compliance, simplifying eDiscovery, protecting email data, and reducing management costs. The solution can be run in a centralized or hub-and-spoke model and can be executed with granular control, with filtering and de-duplicating options.

Highlighted Features

Zero impact transition

Migrating PST data while maintaining read-only access ensures business continuity, drastically reducing helpdesk calls. The user experience is never interrupted and administrator intervention is minimized wherever possible, ensuring a fast migration capable of moving up to 5 TB per day.

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automatic cleanup

Automatic cleanup

Once source data is present in the target, original files are deleted and broken links removed from the Outlook profile. A policy is also enforced to prevent the creation of new PSTs, ensuring the environment remains clean post-migration.

 

Optional AD/AAD deployments

Plan your migration by organizing users according to Active Directory properties. The scanner can be deployed in either on-premises AD or Azure AD. Directly scanning AAD allows a completely Azure-based solution, negating the need for on-premises components.

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FAQs - PST Flight Deck

The tool automatically de-duplicates all PST file content on an item-level basis, to ensure that backup and duplicate content does not end up in the target system.

PST Flight Deck will process files according to the ownership details, but rather than just accept that these details are correct it has a built-in 8-factor mechanism to verify file ownership.

If discrepancies are found, for example if more than one owner is detected, PST Flight Deck will automatically notify operators who can verify ownership and assign the correct owner prior to ingestion.

Yes, PST Flight Deck can remove passwords and process the file contents.

PST Flight Deck can repair corrupted files using industry best practices. This is done automatically by removing this administrative burden and migrating as much data as possible.