Re: 16GB limit

From: galbicka (galbicka.19r1o3_at_mail.mcse.ms)
Date: 07/21/04

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 07:49:40 -0500

    Excellent response - and oh so true. Just like data retention policies -
    management is the key. Otherwise users will let things grow until they
    become unmanageable. If you don't force them to delete or archive then
    the majority won't.

    monkeyc wrote:
    > *In defence of the 16gb limit lets be frank - if you are
    > running and environment that has over 16gb of email then
    > you are not (or should not be) running SBS - frankly 16gb
    > is a lot of mail and i would even go so far as to suggest
    > that anyone using SBS or Exchange 2000 standard needs to
    > learn how to manage and admin a box rather than increase
    > their mailbox sizes - if you have <3000 users and you
    > have >16gb of mail then you have a admin and management
    > problem not a mail server problem to my mind - i have in
    > excess of 7500 users and my enteprrise mail stores
    > together add up to just under 50gb - and thats with a lot
    > of slop in their and no restriction policies applied to
    > mailstores in the past due to company policy.
    >
    > I have changed this and i suggest that learning how to
    > manage exchange is truly the best way to go - Get you
    > head around mailstore limits and start encouraging users
    > to adhere to them, apply send or recieve restrictions to
    > mailboxes larger than X size (and honestly 10 years of
    > doing this for as living suggests that 50mb is MORE than
    > enough form most normal users) and learn about Recipient
    > policies and Mailbox Management processes and look
    > closely at the message size limits you allow - do this as
    > a test - if you run search against your MBX drive and
    > specify >5mb and get a lot of returns then you have a
    > problem you need to address.
    >
    > When you have 16gb of mail then chances are you have 6-10
    > gb of useless mail, spam and deleted items people dont
    > need - if you have ever had to backup, manage and heaven
    > forbid recover a mailstore then you will know the value
    > of management and maintenance and if you havent then
    > learn the easy way not the hard.
    >
    >
    >
    > >-----Original Message-----
    > >Micky, suggesting to move up to Enterprise obviously
    > isn't an answer to the
    > >person's problem. And for those of us running Exchange
    > as part of
    > >SBS2000/2003, it isn't even a solution. We are stuck
    > with the 16GB limit
    > >until Microsoft does something about!
    > >
    > >Now warning the person that if they are nearing 16GB
    > that something has to
    > >be done is true - whether it's to archive off some email
    > or something else.
    > >
    > >According to
    > http://www.eu.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/editions.a
    > sp --
    > >both the "priv1.edb + priv1.stm" and "pub1.edb+pub1.stm"
    > have their own 16gb
    > >limits.
    > >
    > >--
    > >Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
    > >"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom
    > long"
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >"Micky Hunt" <micky.huntnospam@verizon.net> wrote in
    > message
    > >news:uVkm$R3WEHA.3476@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
    > upgrade to enterprise[vbcol=seagreen]
    > in message[vbcol=seagreen]
    > exchange is measured[vbcol=seagreen]
    > that the 16GB is per[vbcol=seagreen]
    > if you hit the 16GB[vbcol=seagreen]
    > the .stm files count on[vbcol=seagreen]
    > sure of how much i[vbcol=seagreen]
    > >have
    > >
    > >
    > >.
    > > * 

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galbicka
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