Fair enough, he did however say he had 25 users....:-) He would need to keep the 16 GB limit in mind. Curbing the attachments will help to stretch the amount of actual mail you can have.
Sander -----Original Message----- From: John Steniger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 July 2002 03:40 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Unlimited Quotas I believe this applies to E2K as well as 5.5 - keep in mind if you don't have the Enterprise version of Exchange, you do have a software limit as to how big your IS can get (16g) - disk space won't help you with that. We hit this on our server several weeks ago - it is not pretty. John J. Steniger > -----Original Message----- > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:36 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Unlimited Quotas > > > It's mostly a "business" call. Hard drive space is cheap and there are > various backup systems that cater for large mail stores. The admin job > is to provide your users with the best possible email system, > so if they > need to go back all the time to old mails you may find yourself in hot > water if you put restrictions on. Of coarse money also plays a role. I > would let management make the call to go cheap and small or large and > expensive, let them live with it as there are benefits to both ways. > > Sander > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 July 2002 03:18 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Unlimited Quotas > > > I am being asked to justify why I have set quotas for users on our E2K > server > with 25 users. Things that come to mind are that if we give users > unlimited > stores, we will have to buy more disk space in time. Also we have a > single > processor server with 512 ram. So I would make a WAG and say that we > will be > looking at a second processor and more RAM. I am already looking at > more RAM > since our server is paging quite a bit. And as we implement archiving > and > journaling this will impact disk space as well as the backup (time, > number of > tapes). I also realize that allowing unlimited space leads to users > never > managing their e-mail. > > So besides these reasons are there any other reasons that I should be > thinking about? Thanks. > > Jim Liddil > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
