I'll buy a book on sentence structure......damn I need to proof-read before
clicking send.....
Matthew
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Monteleone-Haught Matt - Millville
>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:19 PM
>>>To: Exchange Discussions
>>>Subject: RE: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm coming in late on this thread so excuse me if you've
>>>answered this.
>>>What are you using to SCAN the folders with? Are you sure
>>>your scan their
>>>Personal Folder? Sounds like you are scanning the Exchange server
>>>mailboxes, not the Personal folder. You do realize that
>>>they aren't the
>>>same?????? If my assumption is right and you are scan only
>>>the Exchange
>>>server mailboxes, then who cares how many folders the users
>>>have. Hell, I'd
>>>love to see more of my users, get their sh*t organized into
>>>folders, instead
>>>of having everything heaped into just the inbox. If you are
>>>worried about
>>>mailbox sizes then institute mailbox limits and stick to
>>>them. There are
>>>numerous threads in the archives about mailbox
>>>limits......If any of this
>>>confuses you, then by a book by Tony Redmond or Paul
>>>Robichaux. You will
>>>also need to read said book....
>>>
>>>Matthew
>>>Exchange Disaster Recovery, Live it, Learn It, Love It, Get
>>>yours today!
>>>http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/exchange/technote/edrv3p1.asp
>>>
>>>"Besides the technical limitations on the PST (remember the
>>>P stands for
>>>Personal, that means you're responsible not the mail
>>>admin)..." Jim Schwartz
>>>8-16-01
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>From: Gomez, Mary Lou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>>>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:50 PM
>>>>>>To: Exchange Discussions
>>>>>>Subject: RE: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>In Outlook, you can have 3 sets of folders: top-level which
>>>>>>is your mailbox
>>>>>>items that come canned with the application (Inbox, Deleted
>>>>>>Items, Sent
>>>>>>Items, Calendar, etc), Public Folders and in between,
>>>>>>Personal Folders. When
>>>>>>running the scan, you can see each mailboxes' folders
>>>>>>(Inbox, Sent Items,
>>>>>>Deleted Items, etc) being scanned. There are about 13 on the
>>>>>>average for
>>>>>>each user mailbox. Some mailboxes, as they were being
>>>>>>scanned, had within
>>>>>>these top-level folders, subfolders like: Inbox - my
>>>>>>personal stuff, Inbox -
>>>>>>collections, Inbox - >>>, and the list went on. The folders
>>>>>>were not only
>>>>>>limited to the Inbox.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We instruct our users to go to Options, Personal Folders and
>>>>>>to point to
>>>>>>their home drive if they want to "hoard" mail. Some of these
>>>>>>users have
>>>>>>obviously not done this and I'd like to find out who they
>>>>>>are so we can get
>>>>>>this corrected. This scan took us a total of about 30 hours
>>>>>>because we only
>>>>>>use 1 Exchange server. I'm hoping this will finally convince
>>>>>>the powers that
>>>>>>be to let us purchase a 2nd Exchange server where we can
>>>>>>split Exchange off.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Mary Lou
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Herrick, Michael
>>>>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:02 AM
>>>>>> To: Exchange Discussions
>>>>>> Subject: RE: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I read the question correctly, you scanned
>>>>>>the server and
>>>>>>saw other
>>>>>> folders in their mailbox. How did you do this?
>>>>>>If you saw
>>>>>>folders on the
>>>>>> Exchange server, then what you saw were not PST
>>>>>>files. And
>>>>>>PST files do
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> prompt with a warning about running out of disk
>>>>>>space. Can
>>>>>>you please
>>>>>> clarify what you are seeing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael Herrick
>>>>>> Groton CIT Messaging Services
>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Gomez, Mary Lou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:17 PM
>>>>>> Subject: # of folders in mailboxes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to run some kind of a
>>>>>>report on
>>>>>> Exchange
>>>>>> that will tell me how many personal folders
>>>>>>were created in
>>>>>>each user's
>>>>>> mailbox? We are running Exchange 5.5, sp3 on 1
>>>>>>server and
>>>>>>Outlook 98.
>>>>>> While
>>>>>> running a scan on our server, I noticed some users had
>>>>>>folders they'd
>>>>>> created under their Inbox or somewhere within
>>>>>>their mailbox.
>>>>>>We want to
>>>>>> notify these people that we want them to point their
>>>>>>Personal Folders to
>>>>>> their Home drives and not on the C:\drive. Some of these
>>>>>>people are
>>>>>> usually
>>>>>> pretty obvious because they constantly complain about
>>>>>>running out of
>>>>>> mail
>>>>>> space.
>>>>>> Thanks....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mary Lou Gomez, Sr. Network Administrator
>>>>>> Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp.
>>>>>> TSDS - Systems Management
>>>>>> 512-219-4980 (direct)
>>>>>> 512-336-6644 (fax)
>>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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