3 Mb for 30 days. But I have a lot of others that we are emails a group of
people that we have to have for the auditors that end up being saved by a user
anyways.
So it could be 10 - 15 Mb a day for 30 days.
- Original Message -
From: Martin Blackstone
To: MS-Exchange Admin
So use an Exchange mailbox then put a mailbox manager policy on it to delete
anything over 30 days.
That should keep the mailbox under 500 MB. That's quite manageable.
I've done similar in the past with mailboxes. And I've seen them going crazy
and grow and grow and grow. Adding the mailbox
We're exploring options for e-mail archiving systems. Is there a standard
formula that can be used to estimate how much storage space will be required
per user? I don't have a clue how to come up with reasonably reliable numbers
for this.
John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School
Typically the archiving vendor will have tools that will help you determine the
storage requirements for your environment using their archive solution.
Thanks,
Peter Dahl.
-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25,
That will vary by vendor.
I know that when I've used Zantaz, they had a mode that would just
analyze/report but not modify anything.
You'll have to see what your compression looks like, retention period
for the archive, index sizes if searching...but I'd be sure to get a
solution that let's you
Are you using Outlook 2003 or 2007? If 2003, can you tell me how you kept
users from adding to existing PST's? Obviously I'm going about this the wrong
way...
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 11:05 AM
To: MS-Exchange
Hi there,
I have somewhat large (around 1500 active users) Exchange 2003 environment
where the company wants to enable maximum logging for all mailbox logins and
public folder access. Throwing this in a testlab, it's putting between 4
and 5 entries into the event log everytime Outlook, OWA,
This article is talking about registry settings...but isn't that really what
using Policy editor does? Change the registry?
Notice that the changes are to PST settings, but the article states they effect
both PST and OST files.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925
So...those of you keeping
We're examining in-house verses off-site, and it's hard to compare apples to
apples without knowing what would be required to do it in-house. The software
costs are easy to calculate, but figuring out how much storage and backup
capacity I'll need is trickier.
One of the off-site vendors we're
How does an off-site vendor archive internal email? (email that is
sent/received between co-workers)
-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Calculating Storage
As it was explained to me every message sent gets redirected to the vendors
servers first and copied then delivered or something to that effect.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
315 SE 2nd Ave
Gainesville, Fl 32601
Office (352) 393-2741 x320
Cell (352)
Some built-in Exchange functionality, as I understand it. Exchange can be
configured to direct a copy of every message to somewhere else.
-Original Message-
From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Journaling likely and since it's external and very ugly method of
journaling...
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:55 AM, John Hornbuckle
john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote:
Some built-in Exchange functionality, as I understand it. Exchange can be
configured to direct a copy of every message to
Yes-that sounds like what these guys are talking about. This is what we're
looking at:
http://www.mxlogic.com/services/emaildefense/archiving/index.cfm
From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
I think most vendors put an appliance internally that runs through the journal
mailbox then syncs sends uploads data it to their offsite infrastructure.
- John Barsodi
From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:00 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re:
We are using the Autonomy Zantaz digital safe hosted archive for
compliance, this is configured on the exchange servers using journaling,
to a specific account, we then have a outlook rule that forwards the
message to a external email address, which goes down a specific routing
group connector to
Probably different interfaces with the same result?
For Outlook 2007, the Office Customization Tool can do this for new and
existing deployments.
Run Office 2007 from the run/command line: setup.exe /admin
From: Brown, Larry [mailto:larry.br...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25,
We are looking to upgrade from Exch2003 to Exch2007 this year. This
will include purchasing a new server.
Any suggestions for config - ie. store all data on the server, get a
server with an iSCSI SAN for stores, etc.
I was leaning towards installing Exch on the server and storing the Priv
and
Anyone know of a software package that does something like fetchExc
(http://www.saunalahti.fi/juhrauti/index.html) but that works with Exchange
2007?
Thanks,
Jeremy Phillips
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50 users and 120 gigs Are these just really old mailboxes or do they swap
huge files via email? Perhaps an archiving solution may be another concern. It
really depends on the I/O needs created by their type of use. I have a
dedicated box with separate raid 1 pairs for OS/DB/Logs covering
What's your budget? Do you have any other uses for an iSCSI Storage device
or would it be dedicated to Exchange? Are there specific benefits of an
iSCSI solution you're looking to leverage?
On the surface, 50 users and 120Gb stores could easily be handled by a
traditional rack mount server, but I
Enabling more logging will put it in the event log. It will also
circle your event logs faster then anything. They 'make us' do that
here which we find hilarious because we don't have the means to ship
event logs off the Exchange servers. If I run one of my data
gathering scripts it will cycle
You have 50 users each with 120 GB of email?
From: Brian Dugas [mailto:br...@summit-technical.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: New Server Config Question/Suggestions
We are looking to upgrade from Exch2003 to Exch2007 this year. This will
We have just a little over 50 users using about a 3rd of that...
beautiful things of quotas.
_
Cameron Cooper
IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified
Aurico Reports, Inc
Phone: 847-890-4021Fax: 847-255-1896
ccoo...@aurico.com mailto:ccoo...@aurico.com
From:
Amen to that!
2138 Mailboxes, 2 Stores (117GB, 79GB)
Of course, we do have Symantec Enterprise Vault. Total consumed storage is
around 500GB.
- Sean
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote:
We have just a little over 50 users using about a 3rd of that…
I have an interesting issue that has been happening for almost 6 weeks now.
Every Wed. at approximately 1:40-1:45 PM, one of our domain controllers
basically becomes totally unresponsive, causing the other two DC's to become
effectively useless, AND causes the Exchange server to become
I don't know of any application that does this, but in the absence of
WebDAV, it would use Exchange Web Services to do so.
From: Jeremy Phillips jeremy.phill...@azaleos.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
For clarification, are you suggesting that the count be under 5,000
for inbox and subfolders, or just the inbox? I am not sure if those
are calculated together since you can have top level folders outside
the inbox also
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-Original Message-
From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: Large Mailboxes Performance
For clarification, are you suggesting that the count be under 5,000
for inbox and subfolders, or just the inbox? I am not sure if those
are calculated together since you can have
Correct. I'll try to dig up some links (there are KBs out there now on
this; there were originally none).
What matters is the critical path - both for common user operations
and background tasks, Outlook in Online Mode+Exchange will keep a
view of the Inbox,Sent,Calendar and I think one other
Here you go: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc535025.aspx
Contacts is the one you're missing. The new best practice limit is 20k items
for Inbox/Sent Items 5k items for Contacts/Calendar.
Thanks,
Jeremy Phillips
Director of Operations | Azaleos Corporation | T: 206.926.1945 | M:
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