We had an employee termination earlier this week. As is typically the case, upon the employee’s departure, there is a mad scramble to pick up the pieces to keep things moving along in this person’s place. One of the primary issues is access to e-mail.

In our case, the employee had saved most all of his e-mail to a local PST file keeping but about 2 weeks worth on the server. The problem was, he had password protected the PST file.

A quick google search indicated that PST file password protection really isn’t that complex. One of the first products that I located in my search was a utility called PST Password. Even better… it’s freeware!

I downloaded the utility, fired it up, opened up the protected PST file and it provided me with 3 possible passwords. The first one did not work, but the second one did. I was able to quickly hand this 800MB+ PST file back to the manager sans password and harmony was soon restored.

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