I've found that Outlook 2013 works better with larger mailboxes, and you can also limit the number of months/years of data to cache, so that can help keep the OST file size low.
I forgot to mention that in Outlook 2013, it compacts the OST for you (at least from what I've observed, but someone can correct me otherwise). The "Compact Now" feature has worked well for me in the past on Outlook 2010 though, so you may want to consider running that to see if it helps lower the OST file size in Outlook 2010 (until you upgrade to Outlook 2013). -Aakash Shah From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Exchange] OST larger than box Well, I just got our new 2013 CALS maybe its time to upgrade my offenders (10GB+ users) Also has the transition to 2013 been smooth, I don't want to get bombarded on office support calls like I did during the office 2003-2007 transition Jean-Paul Natola > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [Exchange] OST larger than box > Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 20:47:42 +0000 > > +1: Caching other user's mailboxes/calendars in one source. > > Also, I've found that Outlook 2010 is not as good about cleaning up after > itself as Outlook 2013 is. You can try to use the "Compact Now" option in the > Data File area to reduce this space (assuming the space isn't related to > shared mailboxes/calendars and is just related to deleted emails no longer in > the mailbox). > > -Aakash Shah > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Lum > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:37 PM > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Exchange] OST larger than box > > I see that frequently but never dug into it. Is this user caching other > users shared calendars? > > > Hi all, > > > > I have user that has a 15.5 GB mailbox and the OST on her computer is > > around 18gb > > what gives? > > > > Ex2010/Outlook 2010 > > > > TIA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
