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That's probably
abuse of company resources. You need to get this to your boss and HR. This
person sounds like a pack rat.
I have been
through this myself. Finally HR had to speak to the person.
I guess that is my point. The user with the 800 MB Pst also had a
8 gig home directory on a server. he wants to keep everything that has ever
been sent to him.
I don't think
he said no limits. It was question of why did you choose 100MB. Can you or
do you show any flexability for those who may have a need for more
space?
100MB is very
generous for 95% of the users, but there is always a small percentage who
need more.
Here is my
thoughts.
If the mail
is actually important, it should be on the Exch server.
If it is just
because someone doesnt like to delete stuff, it should be in a PST on the
local machine and not backed up.
Because if we did not set some limit every user would have 3gb of
mailboxes. These people seem to think it is a wonderful filing
system
Wouldn't want to burden the Exchange server,
right?
I agree with what you said though. But,
if the person is constantly using this .pst it belongs in the
store. That's what it's for.
Is there a policy reason for limiting a
mailbox to 100MB? Perhaps restore time or your Exchange standard
install approaching 16GB? Or is the limit there because you
can?
William
With PSTs in
the 850+ MB range, it does not do an Exchange environment any good to
put that burden back on the IS. What really needs to be done is
'spring cleaning.' Get the users to delete mail that is never needed,
which probably includes personal mail, SPAM, etc, and then put the
real mail that needs to be "archived" into a PST and burn THAT PST.
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From:
William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 22,
2002 3:44
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues
Subject: RE:
Keeping large PST's open
Why is that
absurd? .pst's use up more disk space than the equivalent email
in the Information store.
If someone is
constantly referring to a .pst on a CD for information access, you
aren't doing the Exchange Server product
justice.
Nothing
absurd about Kevin's comments. A better option in most
circumstances. Not all, I understand.
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From:
Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002
1:38 PM
To:
MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Keeping large
PST's open
Yeah Kevin
that sounds absurd. The CD option will work fine, but as someone
pointed out, they will have to copy them to the HD to view them, and
then they have to have the brains to change
attributes.
The best
option is to have them save the PST locally, especially considering
the fact that they apparently need to reference them
repeatedly.
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From:
Thompson, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002
3:36 PM
To:
MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Keeping large
PST's open
Are talking about
increasing limits on the mailbox inorder to store that stuff in the
IS rather then PST/OSTs. In my case that would mean making all users
unlimited, which is not an
option...
Elizabeth
Thompson
Service and Support Technician
CCBC - Catonsville
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From: Kevin Miller
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002
4:32 PM
To:
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Subject: RE: Keeping large
PST's open
Keep it
in the IS where it belongs.. WinZip?
--Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 22,
2002 1:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues
Subject:
RE: Keeping large PST's open
Is
there a way to compress a PST file?
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From: Bob Falkenberg
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Sent: Monday, April 22,
2002 4:26 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
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Subject: RE: Keeping
large PST's open
PST
file size limit is indeed 2GB and or 64k items. OST file
has the same limit and will really hoze up when you hit that
limit. If you don't know to look in the deleted items
folder for the sync log you may never realize whats
wrong. (Yes the CEO really does have that much
mail.)
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From: Thompson,
Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 22,
2002 1:03 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues
Subject: RE: Keeping
large PST's open
well, she will
stop that when she hits system limit!! i thinks thats 2
gig?
-----Original
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From: Bill Dodd
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Sent: Monday, April
22, 2002 3:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues
Subject: RE: Keeping
large PST's open
This
solution I would not really have a problem with.
These people are keeping email forever and keep their
PSt's open all day every day. Her routine is that as soon
as an Email comes in she drags it to her open personnel
folder.
-----Original
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From: Thompson,
Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April
22, 2002 3:57 PM
To: MS-Exchange
Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
Keeping large PST's open
We have all
users store their PSTs on the network to make backups
easier. Since some of our users must keep e-mails for a
year (college thing) , some get very big. However, we
have found it to be worth while. since PSTs are
corruptible being able to restore them is important to
us. Most of our users pst files (usually 1 per user) are
around 50 megs and have allotted space on the
server for them.
We lose more
space to Mpeg3 and clip art (which we have to clean off
regularly despite it being against regs) then to
PSTs....
Elizabeth
Thompson
Service and
Support Technician
CCBC - Catonsville
-----Original
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From: Bill Dodd
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday,
April 22, 2002 3:37 PM
To: MS-Exchange
Admin Issues
Subject: Keeping
large PST's open
I have
a user that keeps her mail in seevral large pst's in
her home directory then open's them as personal
folders in Outllook. I looked at her files and she
has almost 350 Mb of PST's. In the past users have
been allowed to have a 100mb limit on thier exchange
mailbox, which should be plenty if it is not used as
a filling system. As a new administrator I feel
un-easy about her doing this, and she is showing
evryone she runs into how to do it also. It seems to
me like this will eat a huge amount of Network
resources. Any opnions?
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