.PST Import Tool beta no longer available?

[Karim Riahi]

Hi,

I've been looking probably everywhere on the Web but cannot find the
Microsoft .PST Import Tool that they released in beta version during MWSF
'05.

The most quoted page on the subject, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/beta
reroutes to
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/using.aspx?pid=pstbeta
and there's no mention of the tool anymore.

Has anyone downloaded this tool and would post it on an FTP server for me,
please (or e-mail, if it's not too heavy).

Thanks in advance,
K.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

I've been looking probably everywhere on the Web but cannot find the
Microsoft .PST Import Tool that they released in beta version during MWSF
'05.

The most quoted page on the subject, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/beta
reroutes to
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/entourage2004/using.aspx?pid=pstbeta
and there's no mention of the tool anymore.

Has anyone downloaded this tool and would post it on an FTP server for me,
please (or e-mail, if it's not too heavy).

I don't believe MacBU actually _released_ any tool in beta. I think they
invited people to join the beta program and if you did so they asked you to
send them your Outlook 2001 .pst files for _them_ to test with. In due
course you'd get an Entourage database file returned. Perhaps further down
the road, there might be later versions for you to test yourself - I don't
know, but I don't believe so. They must have received enough .pst files to
get going with, and so removed the invitation after a few weeks.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
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[Jeffrey Gordon]

I don't believe MacBU actually _released_ any tool in beta. I think they
invited people to join the beta program and if you did so they asked you to
send them your Outlook 2001 .pst files for _them_ to test with. In due
course you'd get an Entourage database file returned. Perhaps further down
the road, there might be later versions for you to test yourself - I don't
know, but I don't believe so. They must have received enough .pst files to
get going with, and so removed the invitation after a few weeks.

Actually, if you were approved, you go to download the tool and test it
(they had at least two versions of the tool, too). However, as part of
the process, you had to agree not to disclose their s/w... so people who
did get it can't post it without violating the terms of the agreement.
Sorry.

~Jeff