Dear God save us from lawyers!!!! > ---------- > From: Woodrick, Ed > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 5, 2002 13:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Unlimited Quotas > > > Why do you pretend to be arrogant enough to be able to dictate the needs > of others? You don't seem to have any business drivers to justify your > actions. And who is to say that getting additional disk drives for the > user email storage isn't out of the question? > > And as to storage, it has nothing to do with processor and RAM. > > And most importantly, just because you don't restrict the users storage, > doesn't mean that you will run out of space. That's absolutely hogwash, > a justification of why many IT shops get such a bad reputation. Your job > is to SUPPORT your users, not be a dictator. In the whole scheme of > things, a few thousand dollars for some disk space and maybe an upgrade > in Exchange editions is petty cash. > > > The BUSINESS driver should not be an IT limit. Exchange really is able > to support most business drivers with little difficulty. In the > limitation of storage, that should be completely dictated by you > organizations Document Retention Policy, which should be dictated by the > lawyers. And it shouldn't even be an IT function to enforce, even if you > can. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:18 AM > Posted To: Microsoft Exchange > Conversation: Unlimited Quotas > Subject: Unlimited Quotas > > > I am being asked to justify why I have set quotas for users on our E2K > server with 25 users. Things that come to mind are that if we give > users unlimited stores, we will have to buy more disk space in time. > Also we have a single processor server with 512 ram. So I would make a > WAG and say that we will be looking at a second processor and more RAM. > I am already looking at more RAM since our server is paging quite a bit. > And as we implement archiving and journaling this will impact disk space > as well as the backup (time, number of tapes). I also realize that > allowing unlimited space leads to users never managing their e-mail. > > So besides these reasons are there any other reasons that I should be > thinking about? Thanks. > > Jim Liddil > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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