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Exchange database size limit at 75 GB

Zones: SBS Small Business Server, Exchange Email Server, Enterprise Anti-Virus

My SBS 2003 server's Exchange database is not far from the 75 GB limit. I was thinking of ways to decrease the mail but I wasn't sure what would really work for my organization long term. Right now when users near the mailbox limit they archive their mail out of Exchange to a PST. This is becoming increasingly taxing for several reasons. 1) I have a bunch of PST files now taking up an incredible amount of space through my storage servers, and 2) not all of them are in the same place and there is no written procedure for doing so.

What I was thinking of doing in place of archiving mail was to departmentalize the Exchange Database First Storage Group, and make Sales Storage Group, Marketing Storage Group, IT Department Storage Group, etc. The real question is can I do this in SBS, and should I do this? Are there going to be negative results or performance hits? I am running Symantec Enterprise with Mail Security. Will my actions or decision to do this cause any issues with my Mail Security software?

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Zone: OS

Question Asked By: MSJoe

Solution Provided By: doc_fields

Participating Experts: 3

Solution Grade: A

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