madforit2501
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Exchange MailBox Size has gone over 2GB
Hi all
i have a user whos mailbox has gone well over 2GB 600 mb over and now he can not see all of his mail.
whats the best tool to use to archive the old mail into a PST.
i know that i am going to have to create the user a new mail box but any ideaers on tools
cheers
madforit.
i have a user whos mailbox has gone well over 2GB 600 mb over and now he can not see all of his mail.
whats the best tool to use to archive the old mail into a PST.
i know that i am going to have to create the user a new mail box but any ideaers on tools
cheers
madforit.
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I think the comment meant that if you exmerge to a PST and the PST created was over 2GB then you may have problems with it.
You could exmerge 6 months of email at a time to keep the sizes down and just end up with a few smaller PSTs.
Mailbox limits tend to depend on what your users need email for. If they frequently send and recieve 10MB spreadsheets then a 100MB limit might not be suitable for example. If they just send and recieve a few emails without attachments then 100MB may be too much. Directors or managers may need more storage than others... if you have only 10 people in the company you'd have more leeway than if you had 50 or 500.
You'd be best off looking through the existing sizes, speaking to users to see what the normal usage is and making a decision after that.
You could exmerge 6 months of email at a time to keep the sizes down and just end up with a few smaller PSTs.
Mailbox limits tend to depend on what your users need email for. If they frequently send and recieve 10MB spreadsheets then a 100MB limit might not be suitable for example. If they just send and recieve a few emails without attachments then 100MB may be too much. Directors or managers may need more storage than others... if you have only 10 people in the company you'd have more leeway than if you had 50 or 500.
You'd be best off looking through the existing sizes, speaking to users to see what the normal usage is and making a decision after that.
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it's an actual mailbox that has gone over 2GB now i thought there was not a limit and this does seem the case.
but what would you recommend to be a max size for user mailbox.
Also if i use EXmerge to archive the old mail can i archive the mail to another mailbox on the same server that i have created for that user.
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