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Dealing with over-the-limit mailbox users
Gurus,
I have recently taken a new post as an Exchange Administrator. The first thing I did was look at mailbox sizes on the storage groups. Many were large, some more than 1GB. I would like to send out a form email to the users but only starting off on a one-on-one basis until I get my wording down. I'm sure many of you in these groups are your companies Exchange Admins, and my question to you is what does a typical email to your end-user who is over the limit (and possibly even requesting more space) look like? What I am trying to get them to do is archive mail to local PST files. -- Spin |
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Dealing with over-the-limit mailbox users
Spin wrote:
Gurus, I have recently taken a new post as an Exchange Administrator. The first thing I did was look at mailbox sizes on the storage groups. Many were large, some more than 1GB. What version of Exchange, and are you using Standard or Enterprise? Depending on that & on your environment, 1GB isn't very large at all nowadays. I would like to send out a form email to the users but only starting off on a one-on-one basis until I get my wording down. I'm sure many of you in these groups are your companies Exchange Admins, and my question to you is what does a typical email to your end-user who is over the limit (and possibly even requesting more space) look like? I don't really have anything boilerplate. If the customer is running Exchange 2003 Standard (as are most of mine; I support small companies) they've got reasonable quotas and the business owners understand that we can't really bump them up too much because there's a 75GB limit per store. In your office, you need to look at the technology you run (including disk space, backup capacity, and backup/restore times) and also need to get management's buy-in before you can talk to users, I'd say. What I am trying to get them to do is archive mail to local PST files. Ah. I don't think that's a very good idea. See http://www.exchangefaq.org/faq/Excha...=-BAD/qid/1209 . If you need to move data off Exchange but still support it, it should at least stay in some form of managed storage and not in a PST file. There are plenty of third party server-side archive products, varying in price and feature-set, which you could run on another server. |
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Dealing with over-the-limit mailbox users
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... I have recently taken a new post as an Exchange Administrator. I suggest you include microsoft.public.exchange.admin instead of exchange.misc -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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