Re: Mailbox archiving by policy? SBS 2003 R2 Premium
- From: "Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP]" <lstruckmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:54:10 -0400
One other thing, you get another 75 GB in public folders, and if these folks are into projects or customers, or jobs or the like, you can receive or move mail into the corresponding public folder.
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Larry
Please post the resolution to your
issue so that others may benefit.
"gocat2005" <gocat2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:73AD74F1-84C4-49F1-B6A7-16ECCAC9BE86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for your assistance. I will follow your advice
Regards
Graham
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
gocat2005 <gocat2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The users are familiar with unlimited local PST storage of email
> (auto-archive set to 3 months). This has worked well with no problems
> and enables them to search emails from years ago.
They have been lucky.
> It would be great if they could continue to have unlimited mailboxes
> now they have moved to SBS Exchange.
It might be great but it is unwise. You have Exchange Standard. The store
will dismouont if it hits the limit - you shouldn't rely on a client-side
archive to keep it under the limit.
With Standard, everyone needs a mailbox quota and you need to make sure the
number of mailboxes * max mailbox size(s) + deleted item retention are under
the limit set in the registry for the Exchange store size (max is 75GB) and
disk size for that volume, *and* you can back it up and restore it properly.
> In case of an Exchange disaster it would be great to have a PST
> backup of each mailbox.
In case of Exchange disaster it would be better to have an *online* backup
of the mail store which you could restore to a recovery storage group.
Re additional PST file backups as a sort of "belt and suspenders" approach,
you can do that easily with BackupAssist. Or you can set up your own exmerge
and run it via scheduled task. See
http://www.petri.co.il/brick_level_backup_of_mailboxes_by_using_exmerge.htm
for help with that.
But neither of these really addresses the issues you've raised above. Your
users are now using something other than what they used before. Some things
are different and that's just the way it is - surely the benefits of the new
system they have outweigh the minor disadvantages.
>
> Can I achieve this auto archiving and PST backup via group policy?
You can control autoarchive with group policy if you download and use the
office resource kit. You should post in an Outlook newsgroup for help with
that. However, I will again suggest that you simply disable it.
>
> They don't want to spend out on third party tools.
They need to understand that sometimes it costs money to get what you want.
If they want to keep everything forever (and *manage* it) they need archive
tools that are server-side and *searchable* centrally.
I do recommend you look into BackupAssist if you're going to do a PST file
backup of your data nightly. Manually configured & scheduled exmerge is a
pain.
>
> "Larry Struckmeyer [SBS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> In Exchange Server Management you can set quotas and enforce them.
>>
>> What would you archive to? There are lots of third party archiving
>> programs, GFI, for example.
>>
>> Creating a .pst can be done from the exchange mailbox, or from the
>> server, using exmerge.
>>
>> What is the purpose of the archiving and the .pst files?
>>
>> --
>> Larry Struckmeyer
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>>
>> "gocat2005" <gocat2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:FCDCCE7A-DA4A-4F9D-9064-164F536B197D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> How do I ensure that users mailboxes stay below a limit eg 1GB?
>>> Can I enforce archiving by policy? And if I can, where is this
>>> stored.
>>>
>>> Also I want to backup to PST how can I do that?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Graham
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