Re: opinions on store and mailbox limits

From: rockymtn (sschaefer_at_monigle.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:10:24 -0700

thanks everyone, I appreciate your feedback. Bottom line is that I'm going
to set my mailbox limits as low as I can get away with. And over time I'm
going to force the users with the biggest stores to reduce. I'm going to
shoot for a maximum mailbox size of 1 GB and enforce that.

With the autoarchive features in outlook 2003 I don't see any reason that
mailboxes have to be any larger. The problem comes in putting a process in
place to back up the archives. I may run a script for the 10 or so VIP's
that will copy archive pst files to a network drive.

"rockymtn" <sschaefer@monigle.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to get a few opinions regarding our exchange server.
>
> Brief history:
>
> win2k3/enterprise exchange2k3 installed January, 2 GB ram, 100 GB D: drive
> 12 GB C: drive.
>
> We are 60 users in a graphics environment so the priv.edb is around 30 GB.
> Mailbox limits are set at 1 GB. We have about 10 users at or above the 1
GB
> limit.
>
> We got Enterprise so we could have a store larger than 16 GB, to
accomodate
> our graphics environment. Recently I've been told that we will have
> problems because basically the purpose of Enterprise is to accomodate many
> users with relatively small mail stores, whereas we have the opposite. A
> few users with relatively large mail stores. Are we asking for eventual
> trouble here?
>
> Do I really need to manage this differently and keep the priv.edb closer
to
> the 16 GB limit in the standard edition?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Stan
>
>
>
>
>

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