Re: Help Reducing Mailbox Sizes & Suggest common practices

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I think you have the answers you are looking for. My only suggestion would
be to get management buy in so that you can enforce new limits and get
people to reduce their mailbox size. I think a 1GB limit on mailboxes would
be considered large by most standards so the goal would be to impose a lower
limit. I would stay clear of PSTs on the network. In fact I'd stay clear of
PSTs completely if possible. There are many archiving products on the market
but the cost might be prohibitive for a smaller organization.

Nue
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Hello

What I would like to do is reduce the users mailbox sizes so my backup
system can do a full backup on one tape (would like my weekends back).
After this is done, I would like to enforce mailbox limits etc (which
is set as no limits currently).

My initial thought was to get users to put their old emails to a PST
file on the network share (home directory). I know now this is not
supported (PST files on LAN / WAN).

I need help to find other alternatives or common practices, perhaps my
only solution is get a bigger backup system. Can you help with
suggestions?

Details
Exchange 2003 Ent on Win2003 Std AD
120 Mailboxes
- average 0.9GB (is that Large for a company this size?)
- largest 6.5GB (I know this is large)
90% of the users are terminal server users
Backup system 160GB-320GB (usually 180GB using hardware compression)

I am aware of tools such as mailbox limits etc and how they work,
previous IT have not implemented this in the past, and here I am. I am
also a bit ignorant when it comes to managing an environment of this
size as well (which is why I'm asking for help).

Any suggestions?



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