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It takes anything up to 2 hours for the setting to kick in without intervention from you, or you can restart the Information Store service.<br />
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If you can wait - I would.
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It takes anything up to 2 hours for the setting to kick in without intervention from you, or you can restart the Information Store service.

If you can wait - I would.

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I changed it last Friday and the user got a message this morning. 
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I changed it last Friday and the user got a message this morning.

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Is this SBS 2011 or Exchange 2010 on it's own?
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Is this SBS 2011 or Exchange 2010 on it's own?

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It's ok, I'm an idiot. &nbsp;I changed the limits but not the warning threshold. <br />
I've changed that now and it's fine.
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It's ok, I'm an idiot.  I changed the limits but not the warning threshold.
I've changed that now and it's fine.

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Aha! &nbsp;Good stuff. &nbsp;Sounded like something along those lines.<br />
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Thanks for the points.<br />
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Alan
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Aha!  Good stuff.  Sounded like something along those lines.

Thanks for the points.

Alan

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A user was getting a space warning message from the Exchange server to tell him that his mailbox was nearly full. &nbsp;I have increased the default mail limit to get past this. &nbsp;However he still receives the message. &nbsp;The thing is, it recognizes that the limit has been increased but still delivers the warning.<br />
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A user was getting a space warning message from the Exchange server to tell him that his mailbox was nearly full.  I have increased the default mail limit to get past this.  However he still receives the message.  The thing is, it recognizes that the limit has been increased but still delivers the warning.

Exchange 2010/Outlook 2010 Space warning message

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.