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Chris Kelly

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Jun 21, 2004, 12:54:02 PM6/21/04
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I have a problem at my company. Everyone here has 100 Meg mailbox and they want more room. I think the common mailbox size is about 50 Meg. Is there a paper out there about mailbox size and performance of Outlook and Exchange?
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Drew H.

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Jun 21, 2004, 1:53:21 PM6/21/04
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The problem is that there are many mailbox quota plans as there are
administrators. Unless there is a typo, what you saying below is that
everyone has 100 MB, the average size is 50 MB, and they all want more. Are
you doing any sort of Mailbox Manager (clean out deleted items, sent items
over 180 days, etc) to clean out unwanted/unneeded e-mail. Why do they want
more size? Are the higher size demands work-related, or do they want to swap
MP3's? We ended up creating groups (users, administrators, power users, etc)
based on need. It was a little more work to decide who got what, but it
allowed us better management of users and thier mailboxes.

-Drew


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Hank Arnold

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Jun 22, 2004, 5:21:26 AM6/22/04
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Are you running Extended Edition or Standard Edition? If the latter, then
your data stores can't be larger than 16GB. That may be the deciding factor
on mailbox size.

Sounds like your organization needs to look at their mail and file storage
strategy. People want to keep every e-mail they send or receive and that
just ain't possible any more. Also, people keep notes with large attachments
on line forever.

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Hank Arnold

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Drew H.

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Jun 22, 2004, 9:51:26 AM6/22/04
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Our one way around this was to make it policy (and provide the training)
telling them to not use Outlook to store documents, but thier home folders.
We tell them it will be safe and backed up on the home folder, etc. The
policy has worked, as have more people saving large documents out of
Outlook.

I also tell users that when then send large wedding photos and the like to
please clean out thier sent items (one folder many people do not think to
clean out). I also do Mailbox Manager, cleaning out sent items over 180
days. It makes a big difference-Drew


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