Re: Mailbox archiving by policy? SBS 2003 R2 Premium
- From: "Larry Struckmeyer [SBS MVP]" <lstruckmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:17:11 -0400
Yep!
And if they had nothing at all it would have taken even less time. <g>
Some organizations may actually want sub folders in public folders. I look
at this a little like your choice of automobiles. Some people want maximum
efficiency and very small engines, others need to carry large loads to their
construction sites. There is no "one size fits all".
As always ymmv.
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Larry Struckmeyer
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP] <lstruckmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Except that public folders are evil incarnate.
Hyperbole aside, I like them for simple stuff like contacts/calendars, but
they're a nightmare to manage for mail. Quotas don't work in there. You
don't want users creating subfolders. Etc. I would avoid this like the
plague - I've recently been through a migration that would have taken
about two days less time if they hadn't had a slew of PFs.
"gocat2005" <gocat2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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?
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"gocat2005" <gocat2005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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