I see the same situation here. I have a few users with one folder (the inbox), with thousands of messages and large numbers of attachments. Users are only warned about being over limit.
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: John Steniger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:51 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Unlimited Quotas > > > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
