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-----Original Message----- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: April 23, 2002 8:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open BAD PST very bad.... Actually, I agree 100%, I despise pst's, but have to live with them. We tell our users here that they can use pst's, they are for email that must be kept longer than 45 days, BUT there is no guarantee on a pst, it is a volatile, corruptible file. I have had a user's pst get corrupted, and we did not have it on backup because she waited for 2 weeks to report it (we only keep email/pst backups for 1 week), and she whined all the way up to her director who contacted our director and he said too bad, my staff was following policy......if it's that important, save it to a word doc and store it on the network! -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open PST=BAD! see the faq... --Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ <http://www.daughtry.ca/> For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open Yeah Kevin that sounds absurd. The CD option will work fine, but as someone pointed out, they will have to copy them to the HD to view them, and then they have to have the brains to change attributes. The best option is to have them save the PST locally, especially considering the fact that they apparently need to reference them repeatedly. -----Original Message----- From: Thompson, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open Are talking about increasing limits on the mailbox inorder to store that stuff in the IS rather then PST/OSTs. In my case that would mean making all users unlimited, which is not an option... Elizabeth Thompson Service and Support Technician CCBC - Catonsville -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open Keep it in the IS where it belongs.. WinZip? --Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ <http://www.daughtry.ca/> For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open Is there a way to compress a PST file? -----Original Message----- From: Bob Falkenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open PST file size limit is indeed 2GB and or 64k items. OST file has the same limit and will really hoze up when you hit that limit. If you don't know to look in the deleted items folder for the sync log you may never realize whats wrong. (Yes the CEO really does have that much mail.) Bob F. -----Original Message----- From: Thompson, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open well, she will stop that when she hits system limit!! i thinks thats 2 gig? -----Original Message----- From: Bill Dodd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open This solution I would not really have a problem with. These people are keeping email forever and keep their PSt's open all day every day. Her routine is that as soon as an Email comes in she drags it to her open personnel folder. -----Original Message----- From: Thompson, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Keeping large PST's open We have all users store their PSTs on the network to make backups easier. Since some of our users must keep e-mails for a year (college thing) , some get very big. However, we have found it to be worth while. since PSTs are corruptible being able to restore them is important to us. Most of our users pst files (usually 1 per user) are around 50 megs and have allotted space on the server for them. We lose more space to Mpeg3 and clip art (which we have to clean off regularly despite it being against regs) then to PSTs.... Elizabeth Thompson Service and Support Technician CCBC - Catonsville -----Original Message----- From: Bill Dodd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Keeping large PST's open I have a user that keeps her mail in seevral large pst's in her home directory then open's them as personal folders in Outllook. I looked at her files and she has almost 350 Mb of PST's. In the past users have been allowed to have a 100mb limit on thier exchange mailbox, which should be plenty if it is not used as a filling system. As a new administrator I feel un-easy about her doing this, and she is showing evryone she runs into how to do it also. It seems to me like this will eat a huge amount of Network resources. Any opnions? 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