PST19UPG - Password Strip

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At work, we are currently using Microsoft Outlook 2000 and occasionally have some users who have password protected their PST files. Most of these users choose to utilize the automatic login, which eventually causes the users some heartache when their machines are replaced and need to re-enter their passwords (which they don’t remember).

Thank you Microsoft for creating a utility to help us with this situation. The utility was not originally created to strip passwords; it was designed to upgrade the PST format to version 19. Imagine the outlash Microsoft would have endured if they created the utility with the primary purpose of stripping passwords; although, it was a pretty big oversight to release the utility with this type of side-effect.

Using this utility is a quick way my team handles many of these types of situations. For the later PST versions, we have the users create a new PST file on the older system (along side with the original PST file) and then copy their content.