There are other monitoring applications that would not cost you anything. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:47 PM, sms adm <sms...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
