The "powers that be" will need more incidents like this before they are convinced to pay for MOM ... unfortunately.
Should the user have been able to grow their Deleted Items to that point without problem? Thx On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com>wrote: > I vote for the “throwing them off the roof”. > > > > However, a good monitoring solution would’ve alerted you to what is going > on. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:12 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Store brought down by a user today > > > > This ever happen to anyone ... > > Had a user send a number of individual large emails (5MB+) to hundreds of > people, then after sending each one, deleted his Sent folder, increasing his > Deleted Items to 4GB. > We were a bit lean with 8GB available to the store (file system), but we > had 19GB of white space available. > We lost all the space and had the store dismount. > > How would I stop this, other than throwing the offender off the roof :) > > Been quite the afternoon. > > Thx in advance > -- smsadm
