I'm coming in late on this thread so excuse me if you've answered this.
What are you using to SCAN the folders with? Are you sure your scan their
Personal Folder? Sounds like you are scanning the Exchange server
mailboxes, not the Personal folder. You do realize that they aren't the
same?????? If my assumption is right and you are scan only the Exchange
server mailboxes, then who cares how many folders the users have. Hell, I'd
love to see more of my users, get their sh*t organized into folders, instead
of having everything heaped into just the inbox. If you are worried about
mailbox sizes then institute mailbox limits and stick to them. There are
numerous threads in the archives about mailbox limits......If any of this
confuses you, then by a book by Tony Redmond or Paul Robichaux. You will
also need to read said book....
Matthew
Exchange Disaster Recovery, Live it, Learn It, Love It, Get yours today!
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"Besides the technical limitations on the PST (remember the P stands for
Personal, that means you're responsible not the mail admin)..." Jim Schwartz
8-16-01
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Gomez, Mary Lou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:50 PM
>>>To: Exchange Discussions
>>>Subject: RE: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>
>>>
>>>In Outlook, you can have 3 sets of folders: top-level which
>>>is your mailbox
>>>items that come canned with the application (Inbox, Deleted
>>>Items, Sent
>>>Items, Calendar, etc), Public Folders and in between,
>>>Personal Folders. When
>>>running the scan, you can see each mailboxes' folders
>>>(Inbox, Sent Items,
>>>Deleted Items, etc) being scanned. There are about 13 on the
>>>average for
>>>each user mailbox. Some mailboxes, as they were being
>>>scanned, had within
>>>these top-level folders, subfolders like: Inbox - my
>>>personal stuff, Inbox -
>>>collections, Inbox - >>>, and the list went on. The folders
>>>were not only
>>>limited to the Inbox.
>>>
>>>We instruct our users to go to Options, Personal Folders and
>>>to point to
>>>their home drive if they want to "hoard" mail. Some of these
>>>users have
>>>obviously not done this and I'd like to find out who they
>>>are so we can get
>>>this corrected. This scan took us a total of about 30 hours
>>>because we only
>>>use 1 Exchange server. I'm hoping this will finally convince
>>>the powers that
>>>be to let us purchase a 2nd Exchange server where we can
>>>split Exchange off.
>>>
>>>Mary Lou
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Herrick, Michael
>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:02 AM
>>> To: Exchange Discussions
>>> Subject: RE: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>
>>>
>>> If I read the question correctly, you scanned
>>>the server and
>>>saw other
>>> folders in their mailbox. How did you do this?
>>>If you saw
>>>folders on the
>>> Exchange server, then what you saw were not PST
>>>files. And
>>>PST files do
>>> not
>>> prompt with a warning about running out of disk
>>>space. Can
>>>you please
>>> clarify what you are seeing?
>>>
>>> Michael Herrick
>>> Groton CIT Messaging Services
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Gomez, Mary Lou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:17 PM
>>> Subject: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to run some kind of a
>>>report on
>>> Exchange
>>> that will tell me how many personal folders
>>>were created in
>>>each user's
>>> mailbox? We are running Exchange 5.5, sp3 on 1
>>>server and
>>>Outlook 98.
>>> While
>>> running a scan on our server, I noticed some users had
>>>folders they'd
>>> created under their Inbox or somewhere within
>>>their mailbox.
>>>We want to
>>> notify these people that we want them to point their
>>>Personal Folders to
>>> their Home drives and not on the C:\drive. Some of these
>>>people are
>>> usually
>>> pretty obvious because they constantly complain about
>>>running out of
>>> mail
>>> space.
>>> Thanks....
>>>
>>> Mary Lou Gomez, Sr. Network Administrator
>>> Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp.
>>> TSDS - Systems Management
>>> 512-219-4980 (direct)
>>> 512-336-6644 (fax)
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>>
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