I don’t use my calendar as a file repository, and the largest entry is 67KB (the average is much smaller … 8-15 KB). My calendar is already nearly 25 MB, and the organizational mailbox quota is set at 300 MB. Based on my mailbox I could easily see how an aggressive (or an abusive) calendar user might accumulate a large percentage of their quota in Calendar items over time.
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do I exclude the calendar from mailbox quotas “While Outlook provides you the capability of dropping documents and other attachments into calendar items, that’s almost always a mistake.” I agree, and have never under stood why Microsoft did it this way. Just another opportunity for users to use Exchange as a file management system. -Paul From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How do I exclude the calendar from mailbox quotas I would be reviewing what the heck they are using the calendars FOR. While Outlook provides you the capability of dropping documents and other attachments into calendar items, that’s almost always a mistake. That information should be kept in a case management system. Your general calendar entry is only a few KB in size (depending on the size of the invitee list). It takes a LOT of calendar entries to take up even a few MB of entries. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Beahm, Keith [mailto:kbe...@stinson.com]<mailto:[mailto:kbe...@stinson.com]> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How do I exclude the calendar from mailbox quotas We need to 'encourage' our users to file their client emails into the firm's external (i.e. non exchange) document management system, and we have done this by imposing strict mailbox quotas. The issue we now have is that some user's calendars have grown so large that the quotas are impacting their work flow. Does anyone have any suggestions or know of a 3rd party product to facilitate this need. I initially thought about using some combination of E2010 archive features and a managed folder policy, but Outlook 2007 cant view the archived folders. We are 100% Exchange 2010 SP1 RU 3v3 on Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM. Our clients are all Outlook 2007 SP2. Keith D.. Beahm | Network Engineer | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP 1201 Walnut Street, Suite 2900 | Kansas City, MO 64106-2150 T: 816.691.3374 | M: 8168088983 kbe...@stinson.com<mailto:kbe...@stinson.com> | www.stinson.com<http://www.stinson.com/> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This communication is from a law firm and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please contact the sender for instructions concerning return or destruction, and do not use or disclose the contents to others. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist Keith D.. Beahm | Network Engineer | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP 1201 Walnut Street, Suite 2900 | Kansas City, MO 64106-2150 T: 816.691.3374 | M: 8168088983 kbe...@stinson.com | http://www.stinson.com/ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
