About Start Software

Start Software is an award-winning developer and leading publisher of asbestos software, systems for the legal services industry and more.

Want to know more about asbestos software Alpha Tracker? Alpha Tracker is the most used asbestos software in the UK, Australia & New Zealand with more than 60m items of asbestos data stored.

Our legal services software Alpha Legal helps will writers, accountants, solicitors, IFAs and estate agents to communicate securely with clients. Read about developments here on the blog.

Or need help with Alpha Anywhere or Alpha Transform projects or software development? You'll find useful info here.

Important! Do you use our Microsoft Exchange Calendar Sync? You need to take action

Do your Alpha Tracker diaries automatically sync with Microsoft Exchange (Outlook) calendars?

If so, watch out from an email heading your way today (28 February 2025).  Microsoft have made a change to Exchange which will affect this process.  

Microsoft are disabling a feature - you need to take action

You need to change some account permissions within your Microsoft account to be sure that your diary syncs will continue as normal.  

Jack has created a video here to explain the process you will need to follow: https://www.loom.com/share/a3eaef6ea7164f85ac3c43aa3dd4362b 

The email will be coming from businessmanager@start-software.com with a subject of "ACTION REQUIRED: Exchange (Outlook) Calendar Sync - Alpha Tracker".  Please look out for it and do not ignore it!  We don't want any site staff to miss a job or attend the wrong site.

You do not need to worry or contact us if you sync with Google calendars - only Microsoft.

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  1. GregoryRobinson26 August 2025 at 08:32

    Wasn’t really searching for this, but I came across it while looking into waste management dissertation topics—super useful! Makes understanding these changes and their impact so much easier

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