LOL, a major customer you and I have both worked with currently has mailbox limits of 20MB for most of their 200k or so mailboxes and as a whole, it works fine. I think execs get 50-80MB. I had heard a few people complain that some HTML messages are several MB so it doesn't take but an hour or so for 20MB to get filled up. The response from the folks doing the mailbox quota support was... Stop using HTML for messages. Unless you knew someone who could yell at someone, chances are slim you will get an increase from 20MB. Once Exchange quotas got stored in my AD my quota mysteriously went to 80MB, we could never figure out what the misfire was in the system... I told them I would look into it and get back to them.
Seriously though, if you think about it, 20MB for 200K users is a lot of space, no matter how cheap the disk and you have to consider deleted items retention and backup space to go back say 30,60,90 or even more days on top of all of that. You can go quite a ways with 20MB of plain text messages. You don't really often needs graphics and pretty fonts to communicate with folks. I can see companies making judgements along those lines. Especially as more and more reports come out about how email and instant messaging is probably starting to hurt productivity more than help. I have heard of a couple of companies backing away from the email world and seeing tremendous productivity gains and better customer service. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:51 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits This is NOT personal, but let me say that your limits are overly restrictive and counter-productive as far as fostering good relationship with your end-users is concerned. In this day and age (html email and all), 25MB is nothing, especially when you consider the fact that hard drive costs are exponentially less than what they used to be 2-3 years ago. That is all my opinion and, again, it's not meant to knock you in a personal way. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Robin Smith Sent: Thu 6/9/2005 5:22 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits I'd be interested to hear what others have to say, too. We are stingy with our mailbox limits because the more we give our users the more they abuse it. We limit most 'regular' users to 8MB with a warning at 7MB. When they reach 8MB they can't send. If a regular user's mailbox gets to 15MB then we disable it. This forces the user to do something - either call the Help Desk or clean out their mail. Directors and chiefs and commissioners and such are generally given much higher limits. We start at 25MB and then increase by 10MB if necessary. We do have a handful of users who have no limits whatsoever and their mailboxes are out of control. We are in the process of migrating to Exchange2003 and implementing mailbox manager. Robin ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mischler Timothy J Contractor NASIC/SCNA Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 7:55 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Exchange Mailbox Limits Just out of curiosity, those of you who are Exchange Admins, what is the max size that your users can stop sending and receiving? How do you deal with users who are out of the office your whatever reason, so they don't lose emails because their over there limit? Thanks Tim List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
