The company doesn't look incompetent, just the poor schmuck who can't figure out how to represent a weekly menu in an attachment that is a fraction of 3MB.
This.it's absolutely ridiculous to batch send a 3mb attachment that has no need for security.
just host the menu on a website, send out links to it.
why in gods name is this so tough?
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Check it out, you'll never turn back.
You need a proper archiving system where 3 month old email/attachments can go to cheap disk.
That's about as bad as getting flack from the owner about needing to buy about $100k in software upgrades for servers that host a couple hundred million dollar web site. Seems a lot of people don't understand that software has a real expense just like a fork lift or rent.
I asked him why they could not send out a text file with the menu or a link to the internal website with the menu. He did not really answer that question. I cannot believe the VP lets his own employees get away with being lazy and not coming up with a proepr solution to the server space issue.
This.
We don't allow local archives. Emails are automatically archived after 60 or 90 days. This saves disk space on the email server and also preserves emails for legal purposes.
this is my next action item and its going to be a huge culture shock and im sure people are going to want to tar and feather me.
yes a .alluser email will go out letting people know about this change before i flip the switch.
I am blaming IT for their poor decision to just stop all digital copies of the menu. Yes this should never have been emailed out but it has been emailed for a couple years or more. IT should have said we will start emailing a link to it or we will update the intranet each week with with a new menu but since they did neither i am saying they failed. And yes it is only a cafeteria menu but if they cannot get that right how are they going to handle the important stuff.
Oh wait we already moved to a new building and underestimated the parking capacity needed and forget one complete department in the move so that department was moved a week late and still had the old ugly cubes.
And yes it is only a cafeteria menu but if they cannot get that right how are they going to handle the important stuff.
The most time consuming piece is sucking in all the email from their local archive files. Once that's done, it is pretty transparent for the user -- depending on the archive software you're using, of course.
Yes, someone in IT probably should've told the guy who emailed the menu to knock it off years ago, but they probably looked the other way while it wasn't an issue.
Or didn't have the backing necessary to force the change. Most IT departments know the proper way to do things but that is a far far cry from actually being able to do them that way
I didnt read through the whole thread, but if you are on any version of exchange (2000,2003 etc.) the database only stores 1 copy of the attachment per mailbox store and just places pointers in everyones mailbox. So if you email 1000 people all in your company an attachment that is 3mb, the total utilized space will be 3mb x the number of exchange mailbox stores (im sure its only 5-10 at most)
That was my first thought as well, but apparently that changed in Exchange 2007 and SIS is no longer used.
booo fucking hooo. get over yourself.
what exactly do you do at your company anyway?