Good point =). But we never had limits before - and this led to us hiting the 16g limit with essentially 10 main users having 1-3g of email a piece. 'Twas very ugly trying to convince people to let go ;).
John J. Steniger > -----Original Message----- > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:47 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Unlimited Quotas > > > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
