My office (35 people) has 160,000 emails on the Exchange box...

[vi edit]

Is that a lot?



Works out to be 12 gig worth of email. Maybe it's time to get them to do a little house cleaning.

 

[minendo]

For 35 people I wouls say yes. Then again, what date do these emails go back to?

 

[Looney]

Hell ya that's a lot. That's almost 350mb per person.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: minendo
For 35 people I wouls say yes. Then again, what date do these emails go back to?

Hard to tell. I'm sure there's people that still have stuff all the way back to when we imported the pop mail accounts over to the exchange folders 3 years ago.

 

[selene]

hahhaah thats like 1/4 what i got.. i got 1 new user, 3 month old with 1.5 gig of email alone and idiot wont clear out
we get 80,000 email a day

 

[vi edit]

D'oh! One user has 22,500 emails stored.

Largest mailbox I can find is just over 1.9 gig.

 

[selene]

Look into exchange archive solutions, if u need to keep them online, eas moves them off exchange server so ur inbox can be like 10 megs and small - fast for recovery while in a seperate online storage so u dont need to waste time backing up large mailbox

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
D'oh! One user has 22,500 emails stored.

Largest mailbox I can find is just over 1.9 gig.

It's cleaning time.

 

[loup garou]

If that's a standard edition Exchange server, I'd start doing some cleanup (as well as defrag) of the database...the max priv db size is 16GB.

 

[FoBoT]

we get 50 MB each, even the CEO gets 50 MB (although my boss used to be the manger of the email group, when he was head of email they gave him 100MB and "forgot" to switch it back to 50MB when he left that position)

i just archive to .pst files on my laptop , 50 MB is ok

 

[sillymofo]

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[vi edit]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
we get 50 MB each, even the CEO gets 50 MB (although my boss used to be the manger of the email group, when he was head of email they gave him 100MB and "forgot" to switch it back to 50MB when he left that position)

i just archive to .pst files on my laptop , 50 MB is ok

50 meg would NEVER fly. The owner of the company would have that filled up in day with all the contracts/potential build site pics/financial statements/ect that he gets.

Luckily I can get away with having the 30+ remote locations using POP3 for their email, so they aren't using up storage space.

 

[rh71]

I sent 2000 emails to someone as a result of a small programming snafu one time.

 

[DT4K]

Our emails are only retained for 45 days.
Mainly for legal reasons.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: selene
hahhaah thats like 1/4 what i got.. i got 1 new user, 3 month old with 1.5 gig of email alone and idiot wont clear out
we get 80,000 email a day

Heheh, just wait until it hits 2 gigs...

 

[Woodie]

25,000 mail-boxes on two Exchange servers (clusters).

Anything older than 30 days gets wiped.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

50 meg would NEVER fly. The owner of the company would have that filled up in day with all the contracts/potential build site pics/financial statements/ect that he gets.

Luckily I can get away with having the 30+ remote locations using POP3 for their email, so they aren't using up storage space.

So, unlimited for the owner and 50MB or 100MB for everyone else.

 

[wiredspider]

We only get 75 MB, the rest will need to go into PST. Of course when they don't clean them out, they end up reaching 2 gigs then corrupting on them...

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: wiredspider
We only get 75 MB, the rest will need to go into PST. Of course when they don't clean them out, they end up reaching 2 gigs then corrupting on them...

People that get corrupted PST files because of the 2GB limit, then crying when we can only restore below that limit, making them loose 2 or 3 weeks worth of email, should be shot!!!

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: FoBoT
we get 50 MB each, even the CEO gets 50 MB (although my boss used to be the manger of the email group, when he was head of email they gave him 100MB and "forgot" to switch it back to 50MB when he left that position)

i just archive to .pst files on my laptop , 50 MB is ok

50 meg would NEVER fly. The owner of the company would have that filled up in day with all the contracts/potential build site pics/financial statements/ect that he gets.

Luckily I can get away with having the 30+ remote locations using POP3 for their email, so they aren't using up storage space.

we get 15mb here. You need to teach your users on how to use personal archive folder or personal folders so they can store it on their own machine.

 

[vi edit]

we get 15mb here. You need to teach your users on how to use personal archive folder or personal folders so they can store it on their own machine.

I'd like to do that, but how does it work if half your users are in a different state every 3 days and they don't use a laptop?

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: selene
hahhaah thats like 1/4 what i got.. i got 1 new user, 3 month old with 1.5 gig of email alone and idiot wont clear out
we get 80,000 email a day

i've got about 2-3 gigs of email in outlook at work (though i've been there more than a few months!). Almost all of this, though, is on my network drive in PST files. I think our actual exchange mailbox is limited to something like 25 mb.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: wiredspider
We only get 75 MB, the rest will need to go into PST. Of course when they don't clean them out, they end up reaching 2 gigs then corrupting on them...

People that get corrupted PST files because of the 2GB limit, then crying when we can only restore below that limit, making them loose 2 or 3 weeks worth of email, should be shot!!!

why? what kind of stupid constraint is that to put on a user? unless you warn them when they are reaching the limit and split their archive file.

 

[mikebb]

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: wiredspider
We only get 75 MB, the rest will need to go into PST. Of course when they don't clean them out, they end up reaching 2 gigs then corrupting on them...

People that get corrupted PST files because of the 2GB limit, then crying when we can only restore below that limit, making them loose 2 or 3 weeks worth of email, should be shot!!!

why? what kind of stupid constraint is that to put on a user? unless you warn them when they are reaching the limit and split their archive file.

That's not a constraint put on users. That's a limitation of Outlook: MS Knowledgebase

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: cr4zymofo
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