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Exchange 2010 imap vs pop

I have a virtual SBS2008 running Exchange 2010. I have around 50 users that do not like to clean their mailboxes. most of them have around 4 GB of emails. I do have a lot of issues with the .ost files getting corrupted. I notice my server slowing down on speed when i log into it. I guess my question is if I switch them all to pop mail will the server be working less since it does not have to sync with .ost all my incoming and outgoing emails are been copy to a barracuda mail archive. we receive arround a 2gb of emails per day between 5-6 thousand emails per day.

will the performance of the server increase if I switch from imap to pop?
if not is there a way create a rule to auto delete old emails? I know I can lower the mail box size quota but I don't think that will not encourage them to clean their mailbox.

also, I have the server running as a VM, the data storage is not keeping up with the IOPS.
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What underlying datastore do you have to support the VM ?
Hi,

if you want to get rid of old emails from users mailbox, then maybe you should use Retention Policy. It will allow you to configure, in your case, what to do with email's that are X days old. So, for instance, you could apply policy that will delete items older then 1 year, or something like that.

How to create:  First Retention Tag, then Retention Policy and then apply policy to mailbox. There are some default polies so take a look.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625223(v=exchg.141).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625224(v=exchg.141).aspx

I am not shure what will performance benefit be from switching to POP. Maybe some1 has that info :)

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it is of my understanding that imap is constantly synchronizing with the ost file. will that cause a lot of traffic also by switching to pop, the server will just send the email to the mailbox. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I have the exchange and a production server running on a VNXe 3100 /EMC. ISCI connection
All users have an assign PC. it is very rare that they have to move. most of the users have a company phone connected to exchange for emails. active sync.
Just want to clarify that SBS2008 would have shipped with Exchange 2007 not Exchange 2010.

What are your thoughts of just going to Office 365 instead? You could get an Exchange Online Plan 1 for $4 per user/mo.

Would run about $200 a month for your organization. $2400 a year. Would take a few years to break even if you were to replace the server with new hardware, licensing and labor. Plus you save on backup solutions, antispam, etc.

I am curious. Why are you using IMAP versus RPC? You mentioned OST, which makes me think you actually are using RPC. Are your Outlook clients configured to use Cached mode? That can improve performance.
Do you have jumbo frames enables for your iSCSI Connection for your storage and multipath configured correctly.

see my EE Articles

HOW TO: Enable Jumbo Frames on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.0) host server using the VMware vSphere Client

HOW TO: Add an iSCSI Software Adaptor and Create an iSCSI Multipath Network in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0

There are huge benefits in having ALL your users email on a server.

Individual Outlook configurations, and PST files get corrupted, and they are not supported on file shares or network drives.
Gareth, you are right is 2007 and PRC. I have been looking into hosted exchange but we do not use the exchange to all its potential that I have been thinking into a more cost effective solution. perhaps rackspace email. I do am paying for the archive and email filtering. that might as well cover for hosted solution that will cover all in one.
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