Tongue out of cheek - this is a product design problem of course. Give me one good reason for Exchange being in the storage or data management business. How it ought to work in a world with Active Directories and Distributed File System overlays to NTFS is that a mailbox should be a pointer to user provided storage. Who provides your snail mail box? It's not the post office, unless you are renting a PO Box. Normal delivery is to storage that you provide, structure and manage.
Why does Exchange deliver primarily to message stores? Because of a lack of sufficient protocols and customer demand to do it right. If your customer thinks your service is inadequate, your customer is not wrong. As someone earlier in this thread said so eloquently (if misguidedly) duh! -----Original Message----- From: Etts, Russell [mailto:retts@;harman.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:35 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Using a PST for 'overflow' Hi there I have the same issue here. People have PST files that are well over a gig, and we had one person go over the 2 gig limit. No matter what we tell them, they insist that they need a mailbox over a gig. I limit them to a max of 300 megs, no matter how much crying they do. I just don't know what to do. I have told people once their PSTs hit 600 megs, then I'll transfer it to my machine and burn them a CD rom. Thanks Russell -----Original Message----- From: David N. Precht [mailto:discussions@;entrysecurity.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:56 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Using a PST for 'overflow' No, just inform them of the 'No PST Backup' policy. I don't back up PSTs. Period. Either its in their mailbox or it is not that important. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-exchange-224131@;ls.swynk.com] On Behalf Of Sander Van Butzelaar Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 05:49 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Using a PST for 'overflow' I have a couple of users who do the same thing. They don't want to delete old mail (for whatever reason) and I can't keep extending their mailbox sizes. So they "move" to PST. Be aware of the risks here! Make a periodic backup of that PST as hard drives are prone to failure. Sander -----Original Message----- From: Niki Blowfield - Exchange [mailto:exchangelist@;partition.co.uk] Sent: 06 November 2002 12:45 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Using a PST for 'overflow' I was having a discussion with someone the other day and he mentioned this phrase in passing, that they used PST files when user mailboxes became full I didn't dwell on this as we were talking about something else, but can anyone suggest what he may have meant? We are now enforcing stricter limits on mailbox size and would be interested in something like this. For ongoing maintenance, is Outlooks Autoarchiving a viable solution? i.e. does this move mail out of the server information store and into a PST in the users local profile? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com 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:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
