Article by
Casper Manes
Using outdated technologies created for personal use in an
enterprise environment has never been a good idea. Using
Outlook's PST files in 2016 is a typical example of such a poor
practice.
I was working with a customer the other day on their Office 365
deployment, and the topic of OneDrive for Business came up.
Everything was going along just fine, until they mentioned in
passing that amongst all the files they want to move from
fileservers to users' OneDrives, PSTs will be the most
beneficial, since they are clogging up the fileservers and bogging
everything down.
I wasn't sure at first if I heard him correctly, but then I
couldn't decide which surprised me more. Was it that they
planned to move PSTs files to a storage location, which then
wouldn't work, or that with a 50GB mailbox size in Office 365
they felt like they still needed PSTs. Regardless, I had to educate
them on PSTs and why they are evil... uhm, I mean unsupported,
