PSTWay for OWA
Everywhere Networks just released a new exciting product, which will allow Exchange users to access their PST files via Outlook Web Access (OWA). The product is currently a featured product in the MSExchange.org software library.
“Connect Outlook Web Access users with their PST files & Personal Folders. PSTWay drives OWA’s acceptance and utilization by allowing users to access all their data including: Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks.
PSTs can remain on local or network drives and shared between Outlook and OWA. All access is via OWA’s standard interface and users have complete ability to manage their own PSTs and contents. Personal Folders are simply added to the OWA folder tree and accessed normally. They can add, copy, move, delete, and search just like an OWA folder.
PSTWay installs on Exchange’s frontend server with no special achieve systems to install or manage. PSTWay is currently available for Exchange 2003 and upgradable to 2007. PSTWay is the web interface to PSTs you have been searching for.”
Company: Everywhere Networks
URL: www.everywherenetworks.net
Email: sales@everywherenetworks.net
Screenshot: click here
Sean van Osnabrugge Says:
June 4th, 2007 at 11:50 am
That looks like an interesting product, but I thought that Microsoft doesn’t support PST files over network shares as per the following KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/en-us
It kind of troubles me to be implemeting a product for something that Microsoft won’t support.
Jeff Says:
June 10th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Interesting…but this product inherently requires people to use PSTs across a network–a bad, bad idea.
Microsoft does not support opening PSTs across a network, and with good reason. I’ve seen the results at one of my clients who insisted on doing this, over my objections. Once PST usage blossomed, file server hung a couple times a week, usually in the mornings when everyone came to work and opened Outlook.
This article (whose link I think I first found on this blog…) describes the problems it causes–and I can vouch for it!
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/01/2...t.aspx
Bryon Says:
June 19th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Hey now you are jumping the gun, 1st of all we give the choice to leave the PST on your Local drive (C) as many of customers will utilize PSTWay for OWA this way. That said, hundreds more tell us they already successfully store PSTs on Network shares. Some suggested the Network stored PST issues went away with the implementation of their SAN. In either case we support it. PSTWay for OWA also has some built in functionality to overcome network latency associated with extremely large PSTs no matter where they are stored. The product was initially built to mission critical specs of a customer with over 75,000 global OWA users many with large multiple PSTs of both flavors. They tell us that 50% of the PSTs are maintained in Network shares, 20% stored on local drives, and 30% don’t use PSTs.
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Bryon Says:
June 19th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Everywhere Networks maintains a PSTWay FAQ at http://www.everywherenetworks.com/owa-pstway-faq.php#9
Bryon
Everywhere Networks
Bryon Says:
August 13th, 2007 at 4:00 am
1st of all please do not confuse Outlook with PSTWay or OWA. Microsoft has no comments of accessing the PST via OWA. We fully support leaving the PST on the users personal local Drive “C” and then the only application accessing the PST over the network is PSTWay which is specifically designed to read the PST over the network. 2nd again we have 100s and i mean 3-400 customers that tells us they already and have been sucessfully supporting a centralized storage of PSTs. I expect many of them to have complex SAN systems. see www.pstway.com for more info