There’s a chance to win some great prizes this festive season (that would be a few presents taken care of!) over at PST Panic! The first prize is a $250 Amazon gift voucher, whilst 2nd and 3rd places get a $150 and $100 Amazon gift voucher respectively. A $10 Amazon gift voucher will also go to the first 50 people who submit their photo. And that’s not all!! Five randomly selected administrators will also get their very own free copy of GFI MailArchiver.

In order to be eligible to win these prizes, you need to register to the site and then submit a photo showing the panic caused by PST files. This could be either a photo of your stressed admin, or one of yourself in the midst of your stressful and frustrating job; or possibly a screenshot of a horrible software crash. You could even get your creative skills going and produce an edited photo of all the very wrong things you want to do to your PC when you find out that your PST files are damaged and unrecoverable!

PST files are personal storage tables where Microsoft Outlook data in stored on a local computer. These files are still widely used despite being known to be unreliable and cause problems from a compliance and usability perspective. As a solution to this problem administrators use email archiving to store all the organization’s email correspondence.

Email archiving is also important for judicial reasons where eDiscovery regulations and compliance legislation states that all emails must be stored in their original format and recovered should the need arise. Email archiving is the simplest and most efficient solution to keeping an organized store of all emails that is searchable and through which emails can be recovered. Failure to comply with these laws could result in serious legal ramifications.

Visit www.pstpanic.com for further information about email archiving and the compeition.