At the risk of restarting a battle about SIS and Exchange, check on your Single Instance ratio (props to Brian Desmond*) and tell the exec just how much storage that 450GB database would consume if you weren't still running Exchange 2003. This could be a compelling argument for more aggressive mailbox management, etc.
"Go in perfmon on your Exchange server and go under MSExchangeIS Private/Public or MSExchange Mailbox/Public and add the Single Instance Ratio counter to your perfmon." (*See the NTSysadmin thread titled "Amusing" from last May.) From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: mail server DR ? Then again you could just point out how long it would take to print that many emails and keep your job, as well as see his face when you told him the time span. Some times it is just the look of shock that makes going to the effort to pitch something like this worth the time. Jon On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: Yes but when he finds out what you are doing would you still have a job? Images are great if you don't lose something you would prefer to keep. Jon On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:49 PM, wjh <[email protected]> wrote: But, I like the image.... Everyday he would just walk by the printer on the way to his office and the printer would still be spitting out page after page, mounds of paper on the floor around it. Bill Jon Harris wrote: That might take a few months to complete. Jon On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Charlie Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: Or print out all the emails in the store... :-) *********************** Charlie Kaiser [email protected] Kingman, AZ *********************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:15 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: mail server DR ? > > so 'show' him how much 450GB of data is ... > > measure the thickness of a 1.44mb floppy diskette, and then > figure out how many floppies it would take to hold 450GB ( > (450 x 1024)/ 1.44 ) and multiply by that thickness ... > > I did that once probably around 2001, and with much less data > to back up, and came up with a stack of floppies taller than > the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta ( 70 stories tall ) > > Or maybe then do the same with the thickness of a CD-ROM ... > you get the idea ... > > I've found that executives prefer a 5 second visual to a 30 > second description with words and numbers > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
