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I let the users handle it &amp;&nbsp;just make them delete files when they get too large or mailbox gets close to being full.
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I let the users handle it & just make them delete files when they get too large or mailbox gets close to being full.

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hi<br />
Thanks very much for the response, would sooner have something that cleared things down than waiting on end users to delete files. I am wondering if I need to upgrade the box to Windows 2008 R2 so that I can use the file management tools but it seems a bit extreme for what I need to accomplish...
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hi
Thanks very much for the response, would sooner have something that cleared things down than waiting on end users to delete files. I am wondering if I need to upgrade the box to Windows 2008 R2 so that I can use the file management tools but it seems a bit extreme for what I need to accomplish...

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Any update on this question ?
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Hi<br />
Have just installed FSRM and can see how to manage quota emails etc which is fine. My question is about taking it one stage further. I know on Windows 2008 then you can use file management tasks but wondered what others use on server 2003 ? Does anyone use a script or batch file to clear out or move files older than a certain date or do you mostly rely on users to manage their own folders ?<br />
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If anyone has any thoughts then I would appreciate the heads up.<br />
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Thanks very much
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Hi
Have just installed FSRM and can see how to manage quota emails etc which is fine. My question is about taking it one stage further. I know on Windows 2008 then you can use file management tasks but wondered what others use on server 2003 ? Does anyone use a script or batch file to clear out or move files older than a certain date or do you mostly rely on users to manage their own folders ?

If anyone has any thoughts then I would appreciate the heads up.

Thanks very much

FSRM and Using external script to delete files older than x date.

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Batch files are text files containing a script of commands that are executed by the command interpreter on DOS, OS/2 and Windows systems. Most commonly, they are used to perform a series of functions that are repeated -- copying a set of files created daily with one step, for example.

Windows Batch

The term 'shell' refers to a general class of text-based command interpreters most often associated with the UNIX and Linux operating systems. Popular shells include Bourne, Debian Almquist (dash), Korn (ksh), Bourne Again (bash) and the C shell family (csh). Some view the DOS 'cmd' prompt as a minimal shell of sorts. It is also possible to install Cygwin on Windows and emulate a full Unix environment with complete shell capabilities. Terminal emulators, such as xterm, GNOME Terminal and OS X Terminal, can be used to access shell.

Shell Scripting

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.