You also may want to get an opinion from your firm's legal department regarding what might happen were you served with some sort of discovery notice. Trawling through terabytes of random PSTs may not be attractive for them.
See products like Symantec's Enterprise Vault for ways to deal with this. You won't save any money :) You could also just outsource your email to someone. Graham On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Luke S Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> writes: >> * How do I handle backlash from the worst offenders who are likely to gripe >> the loudest when this is put in place? Obviously I'll have instructions in >> place for everybody on how to archive their emails to .psts which they can >> then back up on the network, but what else should we plan to do? > > I know my personal mailbox exceeds 2GB/5K items by quite a lot, and I'd > be /pissed/ if you said "ignore all this other work you are > doing and clean out your mailbox" > > I think that you should figure out what your mailserver can handle > and how you can increase that number. Then bring it to management. > "If things keep going how they are going, we will have serious problems > with the mailserver. Either you need to spend X dollars and Y time > upgrading the mailserver, or you need to limit each person to Z quota > size." > > Let management decide, and then let management handle the backlash. > this is management's job. > > I mean, if I was your boss, I'd say upgrade rather than add quotas. > Hell, ram is cheap these days. I'd shard out the mail server on a bunch > of those dual socket G34 opterons with 24 ram slots (fill 'em with 8GiB > modules!) and give it 2GiB ram for every user, if required. Compared to > what people cost, it's cheap. (of course, I'm not a MS guy; I have no > idea how well windows handles that much pagecache, or if windows would even > recognise that much ram.) > > But I'm not your boss... they need to decide how much money the convenience > of large online mailboxes is worth in their particular situation. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
