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 ??? http://www.MSExchange.org/ 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 ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')