Why you ought to Extract EDB to PST?

Imagine a world without emails! It seems impossible, doesn’t it. Over the years, both on the privy and professional horizon, emails have grown as the fastest and most efficient means of communication that is reliable. A popular email server application is Microsoft Exchange that not only acts as a vault for data storage but provides real time access to corporate users who rely on Microsoft Outlook for managing their vital emails and personal information.

Microsoft Exchange Servers have grown remarkably over the years and the latest release, Microsoft Exchange 2010 has even bagged the award as the best email server. Exchange server stores data in the EDB file (Exchange database) that contains all the emails, attachments, contacts, notes, tasks, calendar entries etc.. With improved flexibility and redundancy, Exchange Servers have become the perfect choice for business enterprises to manage their email based communication.

Though the MS Exchange Servers are deployed for greater accessibility and efficacious communication, there are certain situations when there arises a need to extract EDB to PST. Many a times the Exchange Server is not available due to maintenance or downtime. As long as the connection with the Exchange Server is not there, the EDB file remains inaccessible and so is the user mailbox data stored in it. Another situation that devoirs to extract exchange mailbox from the server is when only a few selected user mailboxes or their data needs to be extracted.

If you are an Exchange user and need to extract EDB to PST, then you can use Microsoft in-built utilities:

• ExMerge for Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003
• Export-Mailbox cmdlet for Exchange 2007 and 2010

Extracting PST from EDB using the in-built utilities proves futile many times due to certain limitations. ExMerge can only perform EDB to PST Extraction in the offline mode and Export-Mailbox cmdlet requires administrator permissions to extract PST from EDB. If any of these conditions is not met, then it is an astute solution is third party EDB to PST Converter tools.

These adroit software are equipped with advanced mechanisms to Extract EDB to PST without modifying the actual data formatting during the process. Multiple user accounts or even a single user mailbox data can be extracted to Outlook PST using these powerful tool easily. Individual emails can be saved as EML/MSG files as well. The demo version of the software offers a complete preview of the user mailboxes and their components such as emails, tasks, notes and contacts. All the major versions of Exchange Server from 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 to 5.5 are supported by these dexterous tools.

Author Bio:- Cauvery Varma is a technology specialist, working with Stellar Information Systems Limited. She is a passionate blogger who writes helpful articles about EDB to PST Converter tools.