"I" am not confused. As I stated in the previous response, I specifically
described the folders I was seeing and where they were located. And yes, I
do know the difference between the mailbox folders and personal folders. I
did not scan for their personal folders, only the mailbox folders
themselves. The scan (GroupShield's On Demand Scanner) only scans the
top-level folders which includes any newly created folders the users have
added. We do tell them to sort their mail into personal folders if they
insist on keeping "everything" but we ask them to keep them on their Home
drive. This way, they can keep their mailbox sizes down to well below our
corporate standard limit.
Who cares? I, along with management now care because we have people who are
not adhering to our standard. With the virus hit we took last week, we are
working on strictly enforcing all of our standards. Exchange is just one of
them. We do have mailbox size limits & adhere to those. We don't raise those
for anyone, not even the president of the company. My question originally
was not on limits...but on reporting out of Exchange 5.5. I understand that
2000 will give me various reporting functionality but I'm not finding the
same in 5.5.
Mary Lou
-----Original Message-----
From: Monteleone-Haught Matt - Millville
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:19 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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