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Upstart is exactly the tool we’d been looking for to streamline our forensics and recovery processes. Thanks Pete!

Dan Hitchcock, Principal Security Architect, Microsoft

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Upstart

Upstart

Upstart is a utility for tracking and managing PSTs. It lists PSTs, converts PSTs between ANSI and Unicode formats, merges PSTs (with optional de-duping), and splits PSTs (by size, date or item class).

Key features
  • Combines any number of PSTs into one -- in a single operation.
  • Can merge PSTs at the root level or put each PST into its own folder tree.
  • Supports deduplication during the merge process. This allows you to consolidate multiple overlapping archives.
  • Can merge all the PSTs on a drive with one command. Great for PSTs on file servers! (Applies to Site and Enterprise editions only)
  • Performs ANSI-to-Unicode and Unicode-to-ANSI conversions in place.
  • Supports bulk conversions. Save loads of time by converting dozens of ANSI PSTs to Unicode, or vice versa, in one shot. Can be pushed to workstations to run conversions with no user interaction.
  • Splits PSTs by size, by date (year, quarter or month), and by item class (email/Contact/appointment/task/etc.)
  • Invoke ScanPST to scan and repair PSTs from the command line. In bulk!
  • Handles all types of item: messages, Contacts, appointments, tasks, forms and views. (Outlook rules are a special case. Upstart handles rules in conversions with no problem but is not able to combine rules when merging PSTs.)
  • Guaranteed free from adware, snoopware, and all things nasty.
  • No installation step needed. Just download, unzip and run. You can carry Upstart around on a thumb drive or even a diskette.
Requirements
  • The only essential requirement for using Upstart is Microsoft® Outlook 2003, 2007 or the 32-bit edition of Outlook 2010. (It is not compatible with the 64-bit edition of Outlook 2010.)
  • A screen resolution of at least 1024x768
  • We recommend using Upstart on a system that does not have Exchange Server or the Exchange Management Tools installed
  • Upstart has some conflicts with OsaSync PRO and should be used with caution if this tool is in use
Licenses

The Upstart package includes both a full-featured GUI program and a command-line utility; each does the same job so you can use whichever you find more convenient. A single-user license costs US$45. A site license is US$450 and an enterprise license US$950. Read details on our Upstart sales page.

For further information and other sales matters please contact us directly by email or using our contact form.

What Upstart looks like

Take a look at the main window of the GUI version of Upstart by clicking on the image on the bottom right of this page.

The console version of Upstart supports the following commands: ConvertToANSI, ConvertToUnicode, Merge, ListPSTs, OutlookProfiles (lists the Outlook profiles that a given PST is configured into), Scan, SetPasswords, Split, RemovePasswords and Repair.

Miscellaneous Uses

Consolidate KVS and Exmerge archives