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Identifying stale data
Our management asked us to identify “stale data” on our servers – most of which running either server 2003, server 2008 and some still win2k. By stale they refer to data that is no longer necessary for business purposes/and/or is no longer being accessed (with stats to back this up).
My initial reaction to this was number 1 would probably be ex employees home drives still resident that weren’t manually deleted as part of the leaver process. I have also identified many people disabled in AD who should have been deleted – and subsequently their mailbox stays in exchange servers (but again per person its only 40mb each).
I am really after a full comprehensive list of what kinds of data / types of files/devices could still be out there taking up valuable space – and best ways to identify this problem. As windows admins any input welcome.
My initial reaction to this was number 1 would probably be ex employees home drives still resident that weren’t manually deleted as part of the leaver process. I have also identified many people disabled in AD who should have been deleted – and subsequently their mailbox stays in exchange servers (but again per person its only 40mb each).
I am really after a full comprehensive list of what kinds of data / types of files/devices could still be out there taking up valuable space – and best ways to identify this problem. As windows admins any input welcome.
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Hi mike - in your opinion What risk do old comps really pose on corporate storage?
low risk in terms of storage, that is more for AD maintenance.
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mike is there is similar tool to resource manager in 2008 - sorry not an admin myself
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I assume you were talking about "storage reports"? Can you provide an example?
Yes, not sure if I'll be able to take screenshots from mylab today though, there is good info on the Microsoft site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731206(WS.10).aspx
http://computingtech.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-server-2008-generating-storage.html
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Mike
http://computingtech.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-server-2008-generating-storage.html
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Mike
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If you get chance for screenshots that would help no end
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I was more after typical stale data that people perhaps forget about, above and beyond ex employee home drives and exchange mailboxes
There must be tons