Nothing wrong with mailbox limits. People today think email is a substitute for FTP.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Wahlers Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Information store size I'll join you in the lion's mouth. I also have someone in sr. management with a mailbox approaching 1Gb, and we have a default setting of 100Mb per mailbox. When people request more space, we make it difficult for them. We tell them to autoarchive, clean up, etc., all so we can keep the IS small enough to have a reasonable restore window. Executives, of course, get theirs increased whenever they ask. We are non-profit, so we cannot afford the expensive auto-archive solutions that make everything seamless. And of course I am aware of the dangers of storing corporate data in .pst files. My hope is that as the data gets older, if it's lost because it was archived, maybe they printed it off and filed it somewhere. Oddly enough, the executive director of my department (the afore-mentioned 1Gb sr. management's boss) has a simple solution. He has 12 folders - one for each of the last 12 months. He keeps everything in the current month's folder. When a new month begins, he deletes the month that's 13 months old. I believe he must also have a folder somewhere for the important stuff that he has to keep forever, but maybe he just prints it and files it somewhere. If I didn't insist on mailbox limits, and make it difficult for folks to get theirs increased, I'd have folks with 5Gb of mp3's and 20Gb of downloaded movies in their mailboxes. Not to mention folks who back up their CD's onto disk (this actually was done by a micro support person who is no longer with us). And, so it goes. -- Larry Wahlers Concordia Technologies The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tim Gowen > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:37 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Information store size > > > Well, not to put my head in the lion's mouth, but: > > 8. It's simply nuts to store PSTs on a network drive. They just end > up taking up more space. Is disk space on your file server > cheaper than > disk space on your Exchange server? > > This information conflicts with earlier advice about limiting the size > of the information store. If someone has a mailbox > approaching 1Gb, and > they're senior management, then it's difficult to insist on a limit of > 200Mb as well as saying "You can't use a personal folder either". > They're going to over-rule. > > That said, I personly only use a PST for exchange discussions > digests... > :-) > > > Tim > > > Subject: RE: Information store size > From: "Chris Scharff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:48:47 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 9 > > There are far more than 521 reasons. Ed was reading from the > short list. > A brief why PST=3DBAD is an appendix to the Exchange FAQ IIRC.=20 > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange > To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: > Jupitermedia Corp. > Attn: Discussion List Management > 475 Park Avenue South > New York, NY 10016 > > Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
