We keep them on the workstation, but we also back up the workstations (I know, the practices here are nuts). But yeah, PST files suck and I've been telling them for years. My boss was the owner of the company for my first four years here and now they actually have someone who can actually manage an IS department. That's not a crack on our owner who is extremely intelligent (including business sense and common sense and technical knowledge) but he's just too busy to manage our area.
Anyway, with the new manager I get to do the things that need to be done, so we are ditching these PST files very soon thank god. My next goal is to actually get everyone to use a file server! How exciting. It isn't quite as bad as I make it sound and things are picking up in other areas, so it is actually fun to work here.
Right across the street from Compaq, that would definitely dominate on the service calls.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:57 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: compacting IS (was Large Exchange Store)
PST, arghh... Just wondering where you keep the PST, on the local
workstation or on a server? Either way is bad, on the workstation losing
the workstation loses their mail, on the server the PST takes up more room
than the data would have if stored in the IS.
My users are limited to 125MB, I make exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
If the job involves tracking business transactions over years I let them
keep whatever they want. The big mailboxes usually are that way due to
emailing Powerpoint files back & forth.
Mine is a 2 year old mailbox with 28MB (sent items included). People are
packrats...
ProLiant ML370 is a good Dual-CPU server, 6 drive hot-plug cage, very
reliable... I buy Compaq because their office is accross the street from
mine, speeds up trouble calls, of which I've had one. The support guy
walked over here with his bag, when he found out how close we were. I'm
keeping my fingers crossed with the HP/Compaq merger thingy.
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