Group Policy against PST files?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Okay, I hate how work has a 600mb limit for my email inbox. WTF right?

I can go and save individual emails I suppose, but that's a PITA too.

Is there some workaround like creating a different Outlook Profile so I can create a PST file? I need to archive my emails and it's getting out of control... for the 7 months I've been here.

Not sure how we're supposed to survive on 600mb.

 

[blurredvision]

You say you need to archive your files...so why not archive them? I'm assuming you're using Outlook but any modern mail client should offer some sort of archival function. It will archive them to a PST file.

You could also create a new data PST file and have it available in Outlook to just drag-and-drop files to, which would essentially be a manual archive.

 

[Ken g6]

He's saying they have a Group Policy that prevents saving certain file types, in this case, PST files.

I think a lot of places like you to delete your emails ASAP, so there's less evidence discovery in any court proceedings. D:

Do you have access to the email remotely? Do they give IMAP or POP options? Maybe you could archive your email that way.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

He's saying they have a Group Policy that prevents saving certain file types, in this case, PST files.

I think a lot of places like you to delete your emails ASAP, so there's less evidence discovery in any court proceedings. D:

Do you have access to the email remotely? Do they give IMAP or POP options? Maybe you could archive your email that way.

Yeah, so I can't archive anything, but I can save all my email to a local folder. While that allows me to keep the emails forever, it's a PITA to go through. I lose Outlook's ability to search, etc.

Yeah I guess I'm trying to circumvent IT restrictions 🙁

 

[stlcardinals]

He's saying they have a Group Policy that prevents saving certain file types, in this case, PST files.

I think a lot of places like you to delete your emails ASAP, so there's less evidence discovery in any court proceedings. D:

Do you have access to the email remotely? Do they give IMAP or POP options? Maybe you could archive your email that way.

Mailbox limits are usually put in place because of hard drive storage limitations on the Exchange server. Same reason for no PST file creations, space limitation on file servers.

Ediscovery is usually taken care of at the server level with journaling to one mailbox or with another 3rd party.

OP, you probably won't get much help seeing as how you are trying to circumvent your companies policies.

 

[Ayah]

can you just forward your emails to some secure server?

 

[Chapbass]

I feel your pain. A few years ago I was working at a company (an IT company no less) whos absolutely incredible mailbox limit was a grand 40MB per mailbox. Needless to say, rules like that made me not stay there long (you can imagine the rest of the company) 😀

 

[Fardringle]

If you really need to be able to use a PST (or other option) to archive your email, talk to the IT department to get an approved method so that you aren't violating company policy and quite possibly getting yourself disciplined/fired.