Well..you did make a good point though (as always).  When searching
through AD one must be aware of the impact of running broad searches. 
I have worked with companies that have over 130k users (over 200k
mailbox enabled accounts counting resource mailboxes) and I learned
that the less broad a search is, the happier the AD guys are :-).

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:59:05 -0800, Ed Crowley [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey, I didn't say you were wrong!
> 
> Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
> Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Presley,
> Steven
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:00 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Re: Mailbox Size Limits in Exchange 2003
> 
> This is correct.  I am sure that there is a more fine-tuned query that could
> make it more optimized, but this gets the jobs done.  From what I read of
> the question, the requirement is to report on "any" mailbox enabled object
> that does not have any quota set.  If the OU where the mailbox enabled
> objects live is known (or a parent), then the baseDN could be set to that to
> further optimize the search.  In most cases when a customer requests this
> information, the OU is not known (most cases the objects are spread
> throughout the directory) and the customer wants to know about all mailbox
> enabled objects that do not have a quota regardless of location in Active
> Directory.
> 
> Anyways he did say that he has < 1000 users.  How big could his directory
> be?
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:02:13 -0800, Ed Crowley [MVP] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > In a large directory, I believe that this query will take a very long
> > time because I don't believe that those attributes are keyed.
> >
> > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
> > Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
> > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> > Presley, Steven
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:52 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: Re: Mailbox Size Limits in Exchange 2003
> >
> > You can use your favorite LDAP tool (ldifde, ADSIEdit, csvde, ldp,
> > adfind,
> > etc...) and run this query on any domain where you have mailbox
> > enabled
> > objects:
> >
> > (&(ObjectClass=user)(mDBUseDefaults=FALSE)(|(!mDBStorageQuota=*)(!mDBO
> > verQuo
> > taLimit=*)(!mDBOverHardQuotaLimit=*)))
> >
> > This will return all mailboxes that are not set to use the default
> > store policy and ones that do not have either a warning, prohibit
> > send, or a prohibit send\receive set.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Steven
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:58:05 -0500, McCready, Robert
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there any easy way to get a report on anybody's mailbox that is
> > > NOT setup to use the Information Store defaults, other than clicking
> > > on the accounts one by one in Active Directory?
> > >
> > > We have about 800 users, 50 of which probably have a mailbox size
> > > manually set.  It sure would be nice if there was some way to list
> > > the manually set mailboxes (and their limits), without clicking on
> > > 800 Active Directory accounts.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Robert
> > >
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