w00t! Exchange box crashed and burned today!

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Can't you just set it up to automatically delete mail older then 6 months or so? that would seem pretty good, tell them to save all important mails to their computer.

See comment below:

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
Do you work in a corporate environment where emails fly all day long, with attachments, spreadsheets, PDFs, powerpoints, demos from clients, etc? Nope, didn't think so. This isn't personal email we're talking about.

Also, understand most business users (JoeAverageViceCEO) has no concept of storing anything locally. Nor should they, as undoubtedly at some point their machine will become unusable, a necessary file will be inaccessible, and somehow this will be the IT department's failure.

 

[Vegito]

Sweet, im in the same boat

I got one E2K3 box on a 300gb raid 5 array, public folder @ 45 gb, 4 storage groups, each group is around 25-45 gb.. for 75 users..

I asked for KVS archiving last year, never got a reply.. we'll be getting it soon but still.. some idiot replicated somethin wrong 2 weeks ago and wiped out the public folder.. haha

We need kvs because of SEC compliance.. not because we like to keep crap around... they want up to 5 year of email within 24 hours.. 1-2 year at 3-4 hours I think..

But anyway yeah its a bunch of P&L sheets, etc flying around daily..

 

[Czar]

glad to see its working again


my exchange server at work is about 40gb, with almost 100 users. Biggest offender happens to have about 1gb of data, or did. She is the only mac user in the company because she is the designer for the marketing department, fun fun. And she never thought about clearing out deleted items when she was cleaning up her mailbox. Clearing that up took it from 1gb down to 250mb's or so. Thankfully most users use about 10-20mb's I think.

But damn yes, exchange is the most essential thing at work, apart from the internet connection.

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
The company I work for has the most asinine e-mail policy ever. Employees are specifically instructed NOT to delete anything.

That's our policy too, I still delete stuff. I still do have emails from 2002 though

 

[randal]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: vi_edit
You guys don't work for a small company full of accountants.

P&L sheets are 1.5 megs a piece and we get in about 30 of those a week...plus all the pictures we send back and forth for insurance needs, employment applications we get from our retail stores, insurance coverage forms that are emailed, ect.

This a fully independent company spread across half the US. We live off of email for the most part.

With clients who receive tons of large outside attachments like this, I severely limit their accepted attachment size and have them instruct senders to upload large files to their ftp server using a java based web client: http://www.unlimitedftp.ca/products/uupload/

This started as a bandaid, but now works great for my 2 problem clients. Next on the block is using Sharepoint for inside/outside file management with all clients running 2003SBS.

We use Sharepoint here at my work and it's an incredible peice of software. I'd say it's one of the best products Microsoft makes, actually. Getting it to run on a MSSQL (another fine peice of software) was a little bit tougher than expected though.

Sharepoint: 8/10

Randal

 

[ITJunkie]

Originally posted by: Adul
16GB damn


we have 100 MB restrictions

make them store it offline

We do the same. 100MB limits (except for me and a few execs ) and make them store excess in a .pst.

 

[DaFinn]

Hmm, we have 50 Mb limit at work but my mailbox is 991Mb :Q... oh wait, I'm the admin

 

[Ausm]

I have a 50 gig mail box but I am the Sys Admin

Ausm

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: randal

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: vi_edit
You guys don't work for a small company full of accountants.

P&L sheets are 1.5 megs a piece and we get in about 30 of those a week...plus all the pictures we send back and forth for insurance needs, employment applications we get from our retail stores, insurance coverage forms that are emailed, ect.

This a fully independent company spread across half the US. We live off of email for the most part.

With clients who receive tons of large outside attachments like this, I severely limit their accepted attachment size and have them instruct senders to upload large files to their ftp server using a java based web client: http://www.unlimitedftp.ca/products/uupload/

This started as a bandaid, but now works great for my 2 problem clients. Next on the block is using Sharepoint for inside/outside file management with all clients running 2003SBS.

We use Sharepoint here at my work and it's an incredible peice of software. I'd say it's one of the best products Microsoft makes, actually. Getting it to run on a MSSQL (another fine peice of software) was a little bit tougher than expected though.

Sharepoint: 8/10

Randal

How much does that bad boy run?

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: Rogue

Originally posted by: vi_edit
You guys don't work for a small company full of accountants.

P&L sheets are 1.5 megs a piece and we get in about 30 of those a week...plus all the pictures we send back and forth for insurance needs, employment applications we get from our retail stores, insurance coverage forms that are emailed, ect.

This a fully independent company spread across half the US. We live off of email for the most part.

Sounds more like you need a document/file management system. Perhaps a file server running a searchable indexing service. I hate when people try to use Exchange/Outlook to manage files. All it does it make Exchange that much more of a critical asset that is far more prone to corruption and catastrophic data loss.

We looked at stuff like that, but after testing it out people still continued to use, and preferred just keeping it in outlook.

Google has a product that does exactly that. It indexes everything, like mini-Google for the office (it's a server applience with proprietary Google software). Some people think Google may even release some kind of OS for clustering and stuff like that...

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: randal
We use Sharepoint here at my work and it's an incredible peice of software. I'd say it's one of the best products Microsoft makes, actually. Getting it to run on a MSSQL (another fine peice of software) was a little bit tougher than expected though.

Sharepoint: 8/10

Randal

How much does that bad boy run?

SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal? As far as I am aware, SharePoint Services is included within most flavors of Server 2003. SharePoint Portal is a more robust extension of the SharePoint Services themselves, and runs $1,000+ (dependent upon the source/channel, and the number of CALs required).

 

[imthebadguy]

damn, my school gives us 1gb boxes to 50,000+ students/staff, i sure as hell know they dont use exchange though

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: ActuaryTm

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: randal
We use Sharepoint here at my work and it's an incredible peice of software. I'd say it's one of the best products Microsoft makes, actually. Getting it to run on a MSSQL (another fine peice of software) was a little bit tougher than expected though.

Sharepoint: 8/10

Randal

How much does that bad boy run?

SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal? As far as I am aware, SharePoint Services is included within most flavors of Server 2003. SharePoint Portal is a more robust extension of the SharePoint Services themselves, and runs $1,000+ (dependent upon the source/channel, and the number of CALs required).

I have been looking at sharepoint for some time now and I still have yet to see what the primary use is, what makes it so great?