Why do you pretend to be arrogant enough to be able to dictate the needs of others? You don't seem to have any business drivers to justify your actions. And who is to say that getting additional disk drives for the user email storage isn't out of the question?
And as to storage, it has nothing to do with processor and RAM. And most importantly, just because you don't restrict the users storage, doesn't mean that you will run out of space. That's absolutely hogwash, a justification of why many IT shops get such a bad reputation. Your job is to SUPPORT your users, not be a dictator. In the whole scheme of things, a few thousand dollars for some disk space and maybe an upgrade in Exchange editions is petty cash. The BUSINESS driver should not be an IT limit. Exchange really is able to support most business drivers with little difficulty. In the limitation of storage, that should be completely dictated by you organizations Document Retention Policy, which should be dictated by the lawyers. And it shouldn't even be an IT function to enforce, even if you can. -----Original Message----- From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:18 AM Posted To: Microsoft Exchange Conversation: Unlimited Quotas 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]
