RE: Where to save e-mails: Public Folders or N etwo rk Shares ???
- From: Jared Johnson <jaredsjazz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "\[ExchangeList\]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:44:39 -0800 (PST)
Good point.
Another problem is that you can't search as you
normally would: by sender, from, keywords, etc.
--- Mark Fugatt <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The biggest problem I would have with users storing
> email on a share is
> simple "NO MORE SINGLE INSTANCE", if they have an
> email that had a 10Mb
> attachment and it was sent to 10 users, will it is
> in the store its
> taking up 10Mb, if they all move it to a share you
> are now taking up
> 100Mb.
>
> Mark Fugatt
> MCT, MCSE, Microsoft Exchange MVP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfonso Lopez de Ayala
> [mailto:alopezdeayala@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 3:59 PM
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> You're so right... (the problem was that they don't
> even want to leave
> e-mails in their .pst ...they want to drag & drop
> them in network
> shares, so they are listed in Windows Explorer right
> next to Word files,
> Excel files, etc... Windows recognizes that you're
> dragging an e-mail
> from Outlook and it gives creates an .msg file it a
> yellow envelope
> icon... so my users say: see, I can just drag & drop
> into any network
> share...)
>
> *sigh*
>
> Thx Chris!
>
> A.-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wall
> [mailto:Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Where to save e-mails:
> Public Folders or N
> etwo rk Shares ???
>
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> A Private Share will allow this to happen. You just
> have to make sure
> that you have plenty of space on the file server
> that you provide to
> them. I would recommend putting a size limit on
> their share and letting
> them know - this is what you have to use and if you
> fill it up, you will
> have to make space. This will force your user
> community to keep an eye
> on all the junk they save and only keep the
> pertinent information. On
> each User's PC, you will have to point their PST
> files to their
> individual shared location.
>
>
> Remember, you are in IT and you can only provide so
> much...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfonso Lopez de Ayala
> [mailto:alopezdeayala@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 3:31 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Where to save e-mails:
> Public Folders or
> Netwo rk Shares ???
>
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> Thank u so much for your answer, Chris. My users are
> chewing me up
> because
> they want to store their e-mails in the same place
> as their other files
> (.xls, .doc, etc.)... I don't know what to say to
> convince them that
> it's
> not good to have lots of .msg files in a folder.
>
> A.-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wall
> [mailto:Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Where to save e-mails:
> Public Folders or
> Netwo
> rk Shares ???
>
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> Have them save to a PST file on a server with Public
> Shares with
> permissions
> only to themselves(for security). This way, you
> keep your exchange
> Database
> small, and can backup and restore the files on a
> separate server without
> having to bring down your e-mail in such an event.
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfonso Lopez de Ayala
> [mailto:alopezdeayala@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:14 PM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] Where to save e-mails:
> Public Folders or Network
> Shares ???
>
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> In your opinion... what's best when users have to
> save e-mails:
> - put them in Exchange PUBLIC FOLDERS
> - save them on a SHARED NETWORK FOLDER (as an .msg
> file) ?
>
> My first inclination is to direct everybody to use
> Public Folders (feels
> like it's the "native" location & platform for
> e-mails)...
>
> ...but there's the following dilemma:
> - e-mails have files attached often, and I tell
> my users to save
> these to
> a network share and NOT keep them attached inside
> the e-mail (2
> reasons: to minimize Exchange database size, and so
> that they can be
> indexed
> for searches, etc)...
> - but then they want to keep the e-mail too, and
> hate having two
> locations (Public Folders AND Network Share) to go
> to for info relating
> to
> the same project...
>
> Is there anything wrong with saving e-mails to disk
> as a file? What's
> the
> "best practice"?
>
> Thanks for your wisdom on this subject...
>
> Alfonso
>
>
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