RE: Mailbox Issues
- From: "Kim Vandegrift" <kim.vandegrift@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:59:28 -0500
What I do to keep older mail items including those with attachments is save
them to a .pst file. For instance.. I made a .pst that contains all quotes I
get from vendors for hardware. After I receive a quote I move it to this
folder. I've made sure that the location of the pst is located in my share on
the network so it gets backed up. I'm able to keep the size of my storage on
the exchange server low while also maintaining stuff I need.
Kim
-----Original Message-----
From: david [mailto:apba08@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 1:29 PM
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Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Mailbox Issues
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If you can persuade your users to provide hyperlinks to files rather than
attach the originals this will save space. Obviously not a universal solution
but will help for groups with access to a common server for storage of work
files.
Regards
David S.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Nielsen [mailto:cnielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2003 01:04
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Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Mailbox Issues
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I've been mulling over the same type of situation. I have several users that
are around 300MB in mailbox size, which IMO is too large. They are either not
archiving, or they are saving large type files in their mailboxes (lots of
.doc's, graphics or pdf's or something).
Here are what I have determined are some good guidelines to follow and I have
recommended to my users:
* Your Deleted Items and Sent Items folders should be considered a main
archive source, and hence anything that is not worth keeping should be
shift-deleted (permanently deleted). Spam, and other worthless email should not
go into your Deleted Items folder. You should shift-delete it. (Rule-of-thumb
is, of course, to *not* permanently delete if you're in doubt.)
* Attachments worth keeping should be saved to file and the email they
came in on shift-deleted to save mailbox space (and therefore server
performance).
* Everyone should have auto-archive settings set somewhere between 3
and 6 months. Anything older than that gets moved to archive folders, which
reside on the local machine and therefore don't have any impact on server
performance.
The goal of all the above is to maintain an optimal mailbox size below 250MB.
This equates to 64 users per 16GB of server space. I have yet to actually place
a hard limit on mailbox size as there are a few people that have gone through
their mailbox deleting everything they can (so they say) and they are still at
or above 300MB. Being as one of these is my boss I can't go limiting the
mailbox sizes willy-nilly :-), if you get what I mean. Plus we have a rather
low number of users on the system. We're nowhere near the 500 to 1000 users
that is a typical load for a server. If we were higher in user count I would be
looking at closer to 100MB per mailbox as a guideline myself. As it is, I'm not
too worried about mailbox size as long as we stay close to 250MB top end.
Your question about backups seems misguided. I'm unfamiliar with any specifics
of running Exchange on SBS, but all Exchange data in the Information Stores
should be backed up at the server level. This makes backing up at the user
level superfluous. Once you get users using the archiving features of Outlook
they will have a considerable amount of data in their archive folders, which
will be in .pst (native Outlook) format, and these files should be backed up.
But their online mailboxes should be taken care of at the server level. Does
SBS not store mailboxes on the server?
I've found the above policies to work fairly well for my application. I've been
at my current job for just over two years and I myself maintain an online
mailbox size just over 150MB and my archive.pst has just reached 135MB. I
auto-archive anything older than 4 months.
If anyone has suggestions or counter-points to anything I've said I'd be glad
to hear them. I'm still pretty new at Exchange Administration.
Chris Nielsen
Systems Administrator
New Dawn Technologies
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bonnice [mailto:whadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:06 PM
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Subject: [exchangelist] Mailbox Issues
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Hi All,
Im having some issues with peoples mailbox sizes, currently I have not placed
any restrictions on mailbox sizes. Some peoples are up to 300mb and growing. As
I am running exchange on SBS this is going to cause an issue down the road.
Just wondering what a reasonable/average restriction is. Also the users will
want to backup their mailboxes, is there an easy way to burn it onto CD or
something, and what format should it be.
Thanking all,
Michael Bonnice
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