Users have been complaining that they're being victimised and they cant possibly delete 200mb of sent items, or at least move them to a PST that takes all of 2 minutes to open from a backed up file server. Funny how much of the space is taken up by 2mb spreadsheets emailed to the 'everyone' mailing list, that are all unread, or emails to their mate title 'bloke_falls_over.mpeg.zip'
Just having a look around autoarchive, I see you have the option to specify a location. I'm thinking, although it's a thankless task, that I could configure all users' Outlook to autoarchive everything over a couple of months old. I'm not sure whether to configure it to dump the files onto a local file server or not, diskspace over time being the obvious downside. Perhaps we could do a bi-annual CD burning session of all archive PST files. How does Outlook react if you take away its archive PST, does it generate a new one? Or does that whole aspect need to be reconfigured on all clients Any thoughts? 3rd party may be our only solution -----Original Message----- From: Couch, Nate [mailto:nate.couch@;eds.com] Sent: 06 November 2002 12:29 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Using a PST for 'overflow' I know several people who use autoarchiving to handle stuff they no longer use. Much better than keeping email from three and four years ago. Talk about packrats. You'd think the world was going to end if they had to actually delete email that old. Nate -----Original Message----- From: Niki Blowfield - Exchange [mailto:exchangelist@;partition.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:45 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Using a PST for 'overflow' I was having a discussion with someone the other day and he mentioned this phrase in passing, that they used PST files when user mailboxes became full I didn't dwell on this as we were talking about something else, but can anyone suggest what he may have meant? We are now enforcing stricter limits on mailbox size and would be interested in something like this. For ongoing maintenance, is Outlooks Autoarchiving a viable solution? i.e. does this move mail out of the server information store and into a PST in the users local profile? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
