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Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 eDiscovery and Granular Recovery with Ontrack PowerControls™

Rapidly search, find, and collect custodian email for eDiscovery. Save time and improve results with eDiscovery-ready mailbox reports and PST exports.

Selectively restore Exchange and Office 365 mailboxes, messages and other mail items – instead of the entire EDB, saving time and money.

Ontrack PowerControls for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 Email Recovery

Powerful ediscovery collection for Exchange

Ontrack® PowerControls forensically sound eDiscovery collection from archives, backups, and PSTs without restoring the entire database or using an Exchange Server. 

Granularly search and restore mailboxes, messages, attachments and other Microsoft® Office Outlook items and export eDiscovery-ready PSTs.

In this video from Ontrack, the world leader in data recovery, Jack Morris, Ontrack's Strategic Business Development Manager runs through PowerControls Administrative Server.

Organisations face data challenges every day, especially when it comes to demonstrating accessibility, reporting, and compliance requirements. This is where Ontrack PowerControls can help.

Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange Product Features

Search
Search
Interrogate a whole EDB or a single mailbox. Search and filter by message subject, date, time, keywords and more.
Collect
Collect
Collect custodian mailboxes and messages for legal and compliance requests with the ability to split large PSTs on export.
Recover
Recover
Quickly get lost or deleted messages back into your production Exchange environment.
Migrate
Migrate
Drag and drop mailboxes to a PST, a live Exchange server or Office 365.

In this video from Ontrack, the leading data recovery provider, Jack Morris, Ontrack's Strategic Business Development Manager runs through Ontrack PowerControls ExtractWizard.

Organisations face a range of challenges when maintaining legacy back-ups and server licenses; Ontrack PowerControls for Extract Wizard will save you time and money.

In this video, Jack Morris, Ontrack's Strategic Business Development Manager, runs through Ontrack PowerControls for eDiscovery Collection. 

Ontrack PowerControls for eDiscovery Collection provides an easy to use and cost-effective, secure solution for eDiscovery. 

Enhanced features for Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange

Note: PowerPacks are available as a separately priced option for custom licenses. 

PowerPack for ExtractWizard

Extract EDBs from tape or disk backups for ediscovery and investigations without the backup software. Save money by retiring legacy backup servers. Meet compliance requirements by ensuring access to email archives.

Ontrack PowerControls has ExtractWizard supports common backup software formats including:

  • Netbackup (Veritas/Symantec)
  • Dell EMC NetWorker (Dell EMC)
  • Tivoli Storage Manager (IBM)
  • Backup Exec (Veritas/Symantec)
  • Agent for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
  • Commvault
  • Data Protector (HPE)
  • Arcserve
  • UltraBac
  • Windows NT Backup

PowerPack for Exchange

The following PowerPacks for Exchange can be added for enhanced search and analysis capabilities:

Agent for Advanced Searching: This agent offers the ability to search any combination of attachment text, message subject, message body, and attachment file name(s).

Agent for PST as a Source: Allows you to select any PST file and open it as a source data store that performs all database operations including copying, exporting, and searching. Parent folders are implemented for PST sources.

Agent for Content Analysis: Reduces the time taken to perform complex email searches. Administrators can create their own Content Analysis Stores containing multiple data sources, including legacy backup tapes, rather than searching one source at a time.

Agent for Administrative Services: Critical for compliance with highly regulated organisations. Enables the top level administrator to centrally control permissions within Ontrack PowerControls to mirror your organisation's internal IT security policies and control access to mailboxes. This agent also performs centralised activity auditing to track and record all actions taken by a Ontrack PowerControls user.

Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange

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Build a licence to match your needs

  • Customize a license for your business needs
  • Licences are available for any company size; from small businesses to the largest global enterprises
  • Add other Ontrack® PowerControls applications depending on your needs
  • Commercial licences are available for MSPs, eDiscovery and other service providers

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  • Grow revenue while saving your customers time and money
  • Generous partner discounts available
  • Resell on a project basis or to larger clients who manage their own data on-premises
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  • Rapidly recover items for your business customers and end users
  • Differentiate your service offerings with granular restore capabilities
  • Commercial, unlimited use licences available
For eDiscovery service providers

Ediscovery service providers

  • Extract data from backups for your client projects
  • Forensically sound with no impact to metadata
  • Commercial, unlimited use licences available
For backup and storage OEMs

Backup and storage OEMs

  • Bundle with your data protection platform to provide mailbox/message/file level granular restore
  • Licencing can be aligned to your business model
  • Option to integrate the API to run the Ontrack PowerControls libraries within your user interface

Powercontrols for Exchange FAQs

How do I extract and restore Microsoft Exchange from tape?

With Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange you can perform a full backup of your Exchange server with your standard backup software. Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange restores and extracts individual mailboxes, folders, attachments, calendar items, or any number of duplicate or unique messages directly to your production Exchange server or any .pst file. You can then have full access to all the information stored inside the mail server for legal or compliance related purposes. With the advanced find functions of Ontrack PowerControls, it is easy to search by matching keywords, excluding keywords, dates, senders, subjects, and recipients.

How do I recover an email from Microsoft Exchange which is stored on a tape?

You can recover a single email from tape by using Ontrack PowerControls for Microsoft Exchange. To access a single email, you just have to import an existing Exchange database file (.edb) or Personal Storage file (.pst) into the software. By doing so, you now have full access to the emails inside the Exchange or Outlook database file. Then, you can easily find the email required by using the advanced search functions, selecting the item and copying and pasting the email to any location.

How do I restore emails from Microsoft Exchange?

Normally emails are stored deep within your backup software. The complete Microsoft Exchange mailbox server database file (.edb) is embedded within the backup software files. The .edb file contains all the mailboxes and their respective emails.In order to gain access to the emails, you must first restore the backup access the .edb file. Then you have two options:You make a brick-level backup with another physical Microsoft Exchange mailbox server to restore all or single emailsIf you prefer an easy and reliable way, you use Ontrack PowerControlsOntrack PowerControls is a specialised software package which allows you to easily extract the .edb file from its container format with its ExtractWizard and import it into the software. Soon after, you have full access to each and every email from the Microsoft Exchange mailbox server. Since Ontrack PowerControls maintains the integrity of the Exchange source files, it is the perfect tool to search, identify and export relevant data for ediscovery review or for compliance and regulatory requests.

How do I perform a mailbox extraction from tape?

Import either an existing Microsoft Exchange database file (.edb) or an existing Personal Storage file (.pst) into Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange. After importing it, you can select the desired mailbox and search for single emails that are required, perhaps for review or legal purposes. Since no changes are made to the original data, using Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange is the perfect tool for use in legal disputes

How to extract emails out of a .pst file from tape?

This is quite simple. You just import the .pst file into Ontrack PowerControls and extract the required emails. By using the target, you can select multiple single emails and collect them in any order that suits your needs. You can either copy and paste your selected emails and save them as a text file or assemble them and save them again as a .pst file for further use.If you do not have an original .pst file on tape, you can also restore the single mailbox via an .edb file with Ontrack PowerControls, select the appropriate single mailbox, search for the important emails, arrange and save them as a new .pst file or as single text files.

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