I was just tasked with the project to implement In-Place archiving in our Exchange 2013 environment. Right now Im searching for a good known tool that will assist with scanning users hard drives and migrate their .pst files to their In-Place archiving mailbox. So far I have found one, Sherpa Software, but if possible I would like to take a look at a few and compare them. If anyone knows of any products that will assist with this type of task please let me know. I will really appreciate it.

Try this MS product

Search for PSTs Using PST Capture

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781034(v=exchg.141).aspx 

Try this MS product

Search for PSTs Using PST Capture

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781034(v=exchg.141).aspx 

• Marked as answer by jim-xuModerator Monday, July 27, 2015 8:48 AM

I really appreciate your response. This has been helpful. I performed a scan of all pst using SCCM and over 5000 pst files come up in the report. We have less than 1000 user so I thought this number was outrageous. I found out that a lot of this users have duplicate messages on different psts. I was wondering if there is a product that will be able to find duplicates.  

I doubt, if any product are there to find duplicates in a pst.

Hi Maya,

PST De-duplicaiton is exactly what you are talking about,

• New-MailboxImportRequest:

By default, the import checks for duplication of items and doesn't copy the data from the .pst file into the mailbox or archive if a matching item exists in the target mailbox or target archive.

• Check De-duplicaiton using PST FlightDeck.

Two Ways to Deduplicate PST Data for Enterprise Vault nice article to give you insight what you might be looking for.

Interessting Whitepaper related to PST Migrations to Exchange 2010.

http://www.quadrotech-it.com/files/FlightDeck-Exchange_2010-WhitePaper.pdf

• Initial folder level De-duplicaiton can be performed using Windows2012 Native De-deplication capability. But it will not go file's inside data level. This will be useful if user has same inactive backup copy in 2 places.

Thank you so much.