10MB mailbox limits!. Randy, you sir are da MAN! -----Original Message----- From: Toni, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the Fact
An unread message with a word doc flyer attached - Joe Smith's retirement lunch on Oct 6, 1995 - that's some pretty mission-critical info. Certainly don't want to get rid of anything like that. One manager had almost 1000 unread messages in the inbox at any given time. Important enough to keep forever, but not important enough to even bother opening and reading? Gimme a break.... Quotas and limts right from the start is the moral of the story. Easier said than done without mgmt support. Ask users to clean up or run the tools to clean up for them and you could be asking for a new job. Luckily the current CEO supported the effort to clean up the system here, and I did a lot of slash-and-burn on an inherited system that was not properly set up in the first place. We now have a system-wide default of 10MB (yep - that's all they get unless they can jusity the need for more). Management mailboxes have a 100 MB limit. Mailbox full? Maybe first you should get rid of those 23 pics of your daughter's new dog you'll have lots of room. Total IS is typically less than 4GB for 600 users -- a single mailbox that size is a truly frightenting thing. People here are actually keeping it real clean (thanks to an understanding upper-management team - who would've thought? - and the e-mail nazi from hell at the helm...). But I'm still working and still learning - (although the 'nads are a darker shade of blue). > -----Original Message----- > From: Boswell Tim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 15, 2002 7:23 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the Fact > > but of course, every one of those mails is essential, and referred back to > on a daily basis!! > -----Original Message----- > From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 15 February 2002 11:35 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the Fact > > > ewwww > -----Original Message----- > From: Boswell Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 05:24 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the Fact > > > We have about 100 with 1GB+, 50 odd edging dangerously close > to the 2GB, and a few 'important' people that management have insisted > have limits turned off because they hit 2GB and we said 'tough, clean it > out, 2GB is the maximum limit we can set' Just checked and our biggest > mailbox is a little over 4.5GB. > > Can I break it? Please!!! > -----Original Message----- > From: Sethi, Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 February 2002 21:26 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the > Fact > > > 275 warning, 300 prohibit. Wow that's pretty > lenient. You must have ample IS space on your server. Im forced to set > mine at 50MB warning 60 mB prohibit. But then again there are over 500 > mailboxes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:10 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the > Fact > > Use the HEADERS.EXE file to build a CSV template of > the mandatory and optional values you want to extract from the database. > Use the directory export tool with the CSV file you generated with HEADERS > and then set the limits you wanted on the boxes you wanted, then import. > > Barring that, and you want to set a GLOBAL value, > use the values on the server in the Private Information Store object. This > will not overwrite any values set on individual mailboxes. > > John Matteson; Exchange Manager > Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards > (404) 239 - 2981 > Be who you are and say what you feel because those > who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:51 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the > Fact > Right that's the basic idea I was thinking about, > but I'd prefer not to manually set the individual mailbox limits.I was > hoping someone had a script. > > 10q > W > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:42 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the > Fact > The best way I can think of is to set a global limit > on all mailboxes and then specify the limits for those over on a per > mailbox basis. > > Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: William Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 February 2002 19:13 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the Fact > Does anyone know of a utility or script that can do > the following under Exchange 5.5, Win2k Server SP2, About 250 or so > recipients: > I would like to apply mailbox limits at 275mb warn > and 300mb disable send. > > The twist is that for existing users over 300mb I > would like their limit warning to be 75mb more than what they currently > have and their disable send limit to be 100mb more than what they have. > Is there a utility or script available that will > scan my mailboxes and apply these limits? Maybe I haven't figured out the > correct wording yet but I can't find any reference to this on the web or > technet. > Thanks, > William L. 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