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Jakob's avatar
Jakob
Level 5
8 years ago

PST Import - Date Filter

Hi,

we´re planning a PST Migration for a archive migration. We want to handle this with the EV native tools. We will get a bunch of PST Files with a list in which the referenced user is named.

To reduce dublets (reasons for the dublets result from a coexistence of both archiving products) I wondered if it´s possible to set a Date Filter in EVPM PST Migrations. On a first view I didn´t found a solution for this date filter in the utilities pdf. I only want import items which are younger than a specific date. 

Do you know a clue for this?

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    8 years ago

    Hi Jakob

     

    Walking through the on-screen wizard, it doesn't seem you can do it in the UI.

    It also looks like you can't do it using EVPM either.

     

    Third party products, like our PST Flight Deck, can de-duplicate PST file date, as well as allow you to specify things like 'Do not ingest anything older than 1st January 2014'. It doesn't do a date range (yet), but the de-duplication is something that a lot of customers use, for exactly the reasons you outlined.

     

    Thanks

    Rob

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    8 years ago

    Hi Jakob

     

    Walking through the on-screen wizard, it doesn't seem you can do it in the UI.

    It also looks like you can't do it using EVPM either.

     

    Third party products, like our PST Flight Deck, can de-duplicate PST file date, as well as allow you to specify things like 'Do not ingest anything older than 1st January 2014'. It doesn't do a date range (yet), but the de-duplication is something that a lot of customers use, for exactly the reasons you outlined.

     

    Thanks

    Rob

    • Jakob's avatar
      Jakob
      Level 5
      8 years ago

      Hi Rob,

      you´re right. Only in the export archiv wizard there is a option for a date filter. Same thing for exchange pst import & export.

      We will check how we can solve this duplication topic while exporting the items from the old archiving solution.

      Thank you

      Jakob

      • ChrisLangevin's avatar
        ChrisLangevin
        Level 6
        8 years ago

        Two thoughts:

        1) It might be best to deal with the duplication issue while the items are still in PST format. There is a whole cottage industry of duplicate cleaners for Outlook, and if you managed to clean out the duplicates at the PST stage, then you would remove the need to worry about the date range during import to EV.

        2) It's kind of a cockamamie workaround, but if you absolutely must import only a specific date range, then you could first import the entire PST to a dummy archive, then export that archive to a new PST using the date range filter on the export, then import that new filtered PST to your production archive. It's more work, but if you're dead set on using only EV-native tools, it will do the job.

         

        --Chris