Enterprise Vault™ PST Migration
- About this guide
- Introduction to PST migration
- PST file ownership
- PST migration: scripted
- PST migration: wizard-assisted
- About the PST Migrator wizard
- Outline of the wizard-assisted PST migration process
- Preparation for the wizard-assisted PST migration process
- Migration tips for the wizard-assisted PST migration process
- How the wizard-assisted PST migration process affects users
- Starting the wizard-assisted PST migration process
- PST migration: Locate and Migrate
- About Locate and Migrate
- Setting up PST Locate and Migrate
- Migrating PST files using PST Locate and Migrate
- Excluding network shares from PST migration using the PstLocatorTask.exe.config file
- Troubleshooting PST migration
- PST migration: client-driven migration
- About client-driven PST migration
- Preparation for client-driven PST migration
- Editing the PST migration messages for client-driven PST migration
- Configuring the PST holding folder for PST client-driven migration
- Creating a PST Migrator task for PST client-driven migration
- Enabling mailboxes for PST client-driven migration
- Permissions required for migrating PST files stored on network drives
Running the PST Locator task to find domains and computers
You can schedule the PST Locator task to run during normal office hours. This ensures that the task finds the maximum possible number of computers and PST files. When the PST Locator task has completed its search for PST files it does no more work, even if its schedule window is still open. It does not scan each computer again for a minimum of one day, although you can increase this period between scans.
When you first run the PST Locator task, it searches for available domains. You then select the domains to search and rerun the task to find the computers that you want to search for PST files.
When the PST Locator task finds a computer, it attempts to determine if the computer is a NetApp device. Performing this check can slow down the search for computers. You can switch off this check, and later identify the NetApp devices manually in the list of computers.
See Switching off NetApp device identification checks by the PST Locator task.
Before searching for PST files, you can edit the properties of the computers that have been found to include or exclude specific computers when searching for PST files. You can then run the task again to search for PST files on the selected computers.
You can also use the option in the > context menu to add the computers that you want the task to look for PST files in.
See Adding computers for PST searching.
To run the PST Locator task to find domains
- In the Tasks listing of the Administration Console, right-click the PST Locator task and then click Start.
- The domains that have been found are then listed on the Domains page in the PST Locator task properties.
Do either of the following:
Right-click the task and then click Run Now.
Wait for the scheduled run time for the PST Locator task.
- Open the PST Locator task properties and select the domains in which the computers that you want to search for PST files are located.
- Click OK to close the task properties, and then restart the task to apply the changes.
To run the PST Locator task to find computers
Do either of the following:
Right-click the PST Locator task and then click Run Now. In the dialog box that is displayed, ensure that Search for new computers is selected.
Wait for the scheduled run time for the PST Locator task.
- The task searches for computers in the domains that you selected in the task properties. Computers that have been found on the network are listed under Personal Store Management > Computers in the Administration Console. You can run the task several times to build up a list of computers before beginning the search for PST files.
- In the list of computers, select the computers that you want the task to search for PST files.
On a small network, if you want the task to automatically search every computer that it finds, select By default search for PSTs on each computer on the Settings page of the PST Locator task properties.
You can also specify paths to include or exclude for PST file searches.