RE: Outlook 2010 questions

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Turner
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Exchange 2010 database

2012-02-14 Thread Shih, Henry
What is the best practice or guideline when you create/organize databases in your organization? How do you add/organize users into different databases? By location? By their size of current mailbox? By department? By users' job title? ... Thanks. Henry Shih System Administrator

RE: Exchange 2010 database

2012-02-14 Thread Tobie Fysh
No idea about best practice but we do it by department so in the event of a DR we can restore the databases of the most important teams first. Sent from my Windows Phone -Original Message- From: Shih, Henry Sent: 14/02/2012 17:38 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2010

RE: Exchange 2010 database

2012-02-14 Thread Maglinger, Paul
By job title/mailbox size. There seems to be a correlation between the two. From: Shih, Henry [mailto:hms...@ci.livermore.ca.us] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2010 database What is the best practice or guideline when you

RE: Exchange 2010 database

2012-02-14 Thread Randal, Phil
By doing it by department you're ensuring that a whole department's email is out of action should their database fail. Better to scatter people randomly. Or is it? Cheers, Phil From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk] Sent: 14 February 2012 19:03 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Exchange 2010 database

2012-02-14 Thread Steve Goodman
My two cents... First, I think it depends on the organization! I usually recommend, if most mailbox limits are going to be the same, going for a balanced/random distribution based on the mailbox profile and planned users per DB rather than another factor. And, if you have an entire department

Re: Exchange 2010 database

2012-02-14 Thread PRamatowski
We go by surname with appropriate splits for DB sizing. - that spreads users pretty randomly for location, department and all that. Works well for us. Blackberry From: Steve Goodman [mailto:st...@stevieg.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 04:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues