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Suggested Mailbox Size Limits
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| Charlie 2002-10-05, 8:30 pm |
| Does anyone have a rule/guideline/suggestion as to what the mailbox size
limits should be set to? I normally work on a basis of Disk Space / Number
of Users = mailbox size, but I am working with a customer that has 40 gig of
disk space and 15 users, 10 of the 15 have laptops and want to use Outlook
in "Offline" mode.
5 of those laptop users have mailboxes that are > 1 gig of space (yes, they
have to have all email they have ever sent or received for the past two
years or the world will come to an end) They are also the only ones having
problems sycronizing the folders (takes 32 minutes to download one new email
500K email via a 56K dialup connection).
If someone could refer me to a white paper or some document that says if the
mailbox sizes are limited to < X life will be good or a suggestion on how to
make these mail hogs' Outlook work faster off line.
TIA!!
Charlie
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| Lanwench 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| Me, I usually set 150-200MB limits for all the mailboxes on the store and
make a few exceptions per mailbox where there's a proven need. For the 1GB
mailbox users, advise them that their OST files are soon going to have
problems (there's a 2GB limit, but in the real world, problems usually begin
closer to 1.3-1.5GB).
Have them archive to PST, burn them a CD, hand it to them, and tell them
that to open the file they'll have to copy the file to the hard drive and
remove the read-only attribute. Or look at some of the third-party archive
tools at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm
Sync speed really depends more on how many actions the sync needs to
perform, rather than size. Still, with the OST limit I mentioned above,
there's perhaps some ammo for you.
"Charlie" <charles@a-plus.net.dont.send.me.spam> wrote in message
news:O5ZnO3haCHA.1692@tkmsftngp09...
> Does anyone have a rule/guideline/suggestion as to what the mailbox size
> limits should be set to? I normally work on a basis of Disk Space / Number
> of Users = mailbox size, but I am working with a customer that has 40 gig
of
> disk space and 15 users, 10 of the 15 have laptops and want to use
Outlook
> in "Offline" mode.
>
> 5 of those laptop users have mailboxes that are > 1 gig of space (yes,
they
> have to have all email they have ever sent or received for the past two
> years or the world will come to an end) They are also the only ones having
> problems sycronizing the folders (takes 32 minutes to download one new
email
> 500K email via a 56K dialup connection).
>
> If someone could refer me to a white paper or some document that says if
the
> mailbox sizes are limited to < X life will be good or a suggestion on how
to
> make these mail hogs' Outlook work faster off line.
>
> TIA!!
> Charlie
>
>
>
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| Bryant Morrison 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| Dont forget to leave room to occasionally defrag the private and public
databases. If you have 40 GB of server storage, then you should not let any
databases grow larger than 20 GB.
"Lanwench" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com> wrote
in message news:e5CJ6IiaCHA.1888@tkmsftngp11...
> Me, I usually set 150-200MB limits for all the mailboxes on the store and
> make a few exceptions per mailbox where there's a proven need. For the 1GB
> mailbox users, advise them that their OST files are soon going to have
> problems (there's a 2GB limit, but in the real world, problems usually
begin
> closer to 1.3-1.5GB).
>
> Have them archive to PST, burn them a CD, hand it to them, and tell them
> that to open the file they'll have to copy the file to the hard drive and
> remove the read-only attribute. Or look at some of the third-party archive
> tools at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm
>
> Sync speed really depends more on how many actions the sync needs to
> perform, rather than size. Still, with the OST limit I mentioned above,
> there's perhaps some ammo for you.
>
> "Charlie" <charles@a-plus.net.dont.send.me.spam> wrote in message
> news:O5ZnO3haCHA.1692@tkmsftngp09...
> > Does anyone have a rule/guideline/suggestion as to what the mailbox size
> > limits should be set to? I normally work on a basis of Disk Space /
Number
> > of Users = mailbox size, but I am working with a customer that has 40
gig
> of
> > disk space and 15 users, 10 of the 15 have laptops and want to use
> Outlook
> > in "Offline" mode.
> >
> > 5 of those laptop users have mailboxes that are > 1 gig of space (yes,
> they
> > have to have all email they have ever sent or received for the past two
> > years or the world will come to an end) They are also the only ones
having
> > problems sycronizing the folders (takes 32 minutes to download one new
> email
> > 500K email via a 56K dialup connection).
> >
> > If someone could refer me to a white paper or some document that says if
> the
> > mailbox sizes are limited to < X life will be good or a suggestion on
how
> to
> > make these mail hogs' Outlook work faster off line.
> >
> > TIA!!
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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| Hi Charlie,
As long as a mailbox doesn't get larger than 60GB there should not be a
problem.
Someone suggested the use of PST's. This is indeed an alternative but most
users will be confused by the use of an active mailbox and an archive.
To contain the growth we have put a maximum mailsize for the enire site. If
anyone wants more they will get it after making an official request for it.
Regarding your specific question about the synchronizing:
Maybe you can get the users to create a different set of folders for each
year or perhaps each project.
Anyway, the idea is to seperate the dynamic mail from the static mail. This
would enable you to stop synchonizing these "old" folders thus speeding up
the process.
You could also try to use a tool like Wickett Mailkeeper
http://www.wickett.net/Default.asp?Page=WNMailKeeper to copy the old mail to
their harddisk and only synchronize the new folders. This could be confusing
because the old mail has to be accessed using the Explorer.
We used Mailkeeper to get rid of all PST's within our network (1500 clients)
and are very satisfied with it.
Hope this helps,
Paul
"Charlie" <charles@a-plus.net.dont.send.me.spam> wrote in message
news:O5ZnO3haCHA.1692@tkmsftngp09...
> Does anyone have a rule/guideline/suggestion as to what the mailbox size
> limits should be set to? I normally work on a basis of Disk Space / Number
> of Users = mailbox size, but I am working with a customer that has 40 gig
of
> disk space and 15 users, 10 of the 15 have laptops and want to use
Outlook
> in "Offline" mode.
>
> 5 of those laptop users have mailboxes that are > 1 gig of space (yes,
they
> have to have all email they have ever sent or received for the past two
> years or the world will come to an end) They are also the only ones having
> problems sycronizing the folders (takes 32 minutes to download one new
email
> 500K email via a 56K dialup connection).
>
> If someone could refer me to a white paper or some document that says if
the
> mailbox sizes are limited to < X life will be good or a suggestion on how
to
> make these mail hogs' Outlook work faster off line.
>
> TIA!!
> Charlie
>
>
>
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