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Mailbox size limits

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millhouse

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Just curious what you guys limit your mailbox sizes to on your exchange servers. I have to come up with a happy medium here at work and it has proven more difficult than expected. Everyone just wants to be special and use exchange as their personal file server, its driving me nuts!!!
 
Medium size business, we give average Joe 20 megs. Higher profiles like managers usually get 30. We use .pst files to give them perma storage, as much as they want.
 
Well millhouse, if you are a good buy, Krusty will give you the information you so desire.

QJ
 
we don't have set limits, but we're only 8 people on our exchange server (largest mailbox is 1gb) and we run out 60 students on a linux mail server with the largest box aruond 700mb.
 
I recently had to set up a new exchange server for 100 users. I set the limit at 350mb it was the lowest I could give them as they were used to having 2gb mailboxes in Notes.
 
Baredor said:
Medium size business, we give average Joe 20 megs. Higher profiles like managers usually get 30. We use .pst files to give them perma storage, as much as they want.
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Not a good way to go. We are a large organization and our teri1 limit is 250MB then gotoes to 350for teair 2. Our VP's and above still have unlimited.


PST are very bad. Microsoft does not support them over a lan/wan. so backups are hard. Aside from that they store a bunch of white space and you don't get single instance storage. Depending on the size of your comapny you should look at some e-mail arciving solutions instead of PST. Like GFI or symantec enterprise vault.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/EN-US/
 
oakfan52 said:
Not a good way to go. We are a large organization and our teri1 limit is 250MB then gotoes to 350for teair 2. Our VP's and above still have unlimited.


PST are very bad. Microsoft does not support them over a lan/wan. so backups are hard. Aside from that they store a bunch of white space and you don't get single instance storage. Depending on the size of your comapny you should look at some e-mail arciving solutions instead of PST. Like GFI or symantec enterprise vault.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019/EN-US/
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The current exchange box is many years old, thus the small limits. The new one is already online and we'll be migrating in November. The PSTs are hosted on a NAS, which is backed up to LTO3 every night. We haven't had any problems with this system in several years of running it. Our servers/infrastructure are good enough (considering the number of clients we have) that we don't experience performance problems from it. If corruption did occur, we should be able to restore from last night's tape. Some potential for loss, yes, but I haven't seen anything yet that would convince my boss to greenlight a switch.

Thanks for the link, I learned a good bit from it. ;)
 
We currently have a user base of about 600. We dont currently limit the size and have well over 50+ users with mailboxes over 2 gig. Most of them are lawyers and executives so its really hard to tell them to fuck off plus no one willing to be the one who implements a size restriction for fear of user backlash.


*sigh*
 
Y2K SE said:
I use this Microsoft Add-In to periodically copy my PST to a network share.
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we have that setup for our laptop users. But we have hundreds of users who don't log off like they should let alone close outlook. wait for the file to transfer then logg off. End the end it works as longs as it works for you. we have 1000's of users so we are moving to Symantec Enterpisr Vault. I can wait to get rid of PST. They are hell on my backups.

In a smaller invionment i would rather magage larger mailboxs than PSTs. It makes more sense.
 
oakfan52 said:
In a smaller invionment i would rather magage larger mailboxs than PSTs. It makes more sense.
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When we get the new Exchange server running we should have roughly 10-12x the storage space, so that is an option I will push for. Getting the approval for a change will be the hard part.

Are there any decent alternatives to Symantec Enterprise Vault?
 
Baredor said:
When we get the new Exchange server running we should have roughly 10-12x the storage space, so that is an option I will push for. Getting the approval for a change will be the hard part.

Are there any decent alternatives to Symantec Enterprise Vault?
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The GFI product pricing isn't too bad. for a small/med bsuiness its not much more than you probably pay for AV.


http://www.gfi.com/pricing/pricelist.aspx?product=mar&curr=usd&lang=en
 
I thought I dig this topic up becuase I have had an intersting day.

PST files acutally cased my cluster nodes to crash today. Appenrtly because of all the large pst files being access they system used up all of its paged pool memory and caused the nodes to become unstable.

After opening Severity A SA with Microsoft they provided me some registry enteries to add to the nodes to change how they handle paged pool memory. I will have to wait until tomorrow to see if that resolved my issues.
 
Ours have 500MB limits, and that's for about 45,000 employees.

Sadly enough, people still have three or more PSTs which are 2GB. We're trying to put an end to this, but we're getting flak from the client company's CIO.
 
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