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Product Review: Stellar Mailbox Exchange Toolkit

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Introduction A failed Exchange database, the inability to restore from backups or being tasked with recovering data from an old OST file on a departed employee’s laptop. All are nightmare scenarios for an Exchange administrator and if a tool hasn’t already been purchased, could easily result in searching the Internet for solutions and then trying two or three until a working, suitable tool has been found – often at great expense. Stellar Data Recovery have packaged up a number of tools in their Exchange recovery portfolio and provide them as a bundle or individually. Given the large discount on the whole suite when bought up-front it’s fair to assume that most purchases of the individual tools are in response to an emergency, so at face value it seems to make a lot of sense to buy the toolkit up-front in case it is ever needed. The tools included in the Exchange Toolkit and reviewed here are as follows. Stellar Phoenix Exchange Recovery Stellar Mailbox Extractor for

Stellar Phoenix EDB to PST Converter

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Stellar Phoenix EDB to PST Converter is an application which allows administrators to export mailboxes from an online or offline Exchange EDB database to PST format.  It is a simple and user friendly application to use and navigate which is handy for even the most inexperienced administrators. When launching the application, Administrators are presented with two options: Convert Online EDB to PST Convert Offline EDB to PST Convert Online EDB to PST Option The convert online EDB to PST option allows administrators to connect to a live Exchange environment and export mailboxes to PST while users are working.  This option requires you to specify the connection details of your Exchange server along with credentials for a user account which has administrative access to export mailboxes.  To perform the export the credentials specified must also have access to all user mailboxes across the Exchange organisation. The Online EDB to PST conversion option is a nice to