What is the largest exchange mailbox where you work?

[Joemonkey]

i'm thinking of emailing her and saying "hey mind permanently deleting your deleted items?"

 

[neonerd]

i wish i had an exchange mailbox

 

[Yossarian]

We're capped at 300MB.

 

[mikebb]

My company imposes a 50-60MB limit on all mailboxes. 50 and you get a warning, 60MB and you can't send any messages until you clean out.

Now PSTs on the other hand...I can't even count how many 2GB corrupt PSTs I've come across.

 

[MaxDSP]

The server has accounts limited to 25 MB, but my GM's .pst is well over 1.5 GB

EDIT: My .pst is only ~250 MB...

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
We're capped at 300MB.

i am the one in charge of the caps...

exchange clusters are pretty sweet

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: Yossarian
We're capped at 300MB.

i am the one in charge of the caps...

exchange clusters are pretty sweet

so what kind of cap did you give yourself?

 

[Joemonkey]

no one is capped, its a law firm and if any lawyer was to get a "mailbox full" message i'd probably be sued somehow

 

[brunswickite]

i work with law firms who have no rentention policies and save Everything.

i wouldnt be suprised to see attornies who easily have a few gigs. small firms with ~4-5 attornies have gone over the 16gb store limit on exchange standard, so we had to do upgrades to enterprise.

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
no one is capped, its a law firm and if any lawyer was to get a "mailbox full" message i'd probably be sued somehow

:laugh:

 

[tranceport]

We have a 7GB at work.

Most exchange reporting tools stop at 4GB.

We have no limit..Management won't let me cap anyone.


I have 300GB of mail for 1000 users.

5 total servers with 500GB possible.

My upgrade servers are to be ordered soon..
400 GB each for them with 5 servers..
Roughly 2TB of storage. I can't wait.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Thankfully, the place I work isn't burdened with exchange.

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Thankfully, the place I work isn't burdened with exchange.

Notes or something?

 

[AndrewR]

I have 100MB each for two accounts (two networks), but there are some organizational accounts that must have in excess of 5GB -- maybe 10GB+. One that I typically check receives hundreds of emails per day, isn't cleaned out much at all, and many of the emails have PPT and DOC attachments. I've never checked the size, but it's packed with stuff (most useless -- automatic distro).

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Thankfully, the place I work isn't burdened with exchange.

Notes or something?

If its Notes, I'd quit.

 

[kranky]

We're capped at 50Mb. But about once a week someone will run their PST over the 2Gb auto-death limit and send someone scrambling for the backups.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: mikebb
My company imposes a 50-60MB limit on all mailboxes. 50 and you get a warning, 60MB and you can't send any messages until you clean out.

Now PSTs on the other hand...I can't even count how many 2GB corrupt PSTs I've come across.

Ain;t it the truth..finding one of those gems (.pst's) on a pentium 2 machine with a 6GB HD was loads of fun when I used to have to do that

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
i'm thinking of emailing her and saying "hey mind permanently deleting your deleted items?"

LOL that girls a newb...
My company seems to be packrats.... they save EVERYTHING....
Average user has 5-8 PSTs all around 1 gig....
they call us every day becasue MS Outlook becomes slow when these PSTs get over 500 mbytes...

I spend most of my day reconstructing users PSTs and splitting large PSTs so that the user can fill those up and call me again in 2 weeks...

Wish my company would just say Enough and impose a 500 mbyte hard limit for archives and inbox...

 

[Kelemvor]

Our mailboxes are limited to 50 meg. However there are people with personal folders well over 4-5 gigs. Prime person has 2 that are 1.5 gigs and a few others that are a few hundred megs each. Then she also wonders why Outlook 2000 is so slow.

But of course she won't take the time to split things up into smaller boxes so when her drive crashes or something gets corrupted, she loses thousands of emails all at once. heh.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Not sure. We use Groupwise, but we automatically clear out old items after 90 days. Every 90 days an important administrator calls us and tells us they lost all of their mail, so we go back and recover it for them, of course. Its pretty worthless.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Hey, you can't beat a couple of CAD guys that tried emailing Autocad to eachother.

...and one that wanted me to email him my entire set of MP3s, and a mixed disk I made. (2GB of MP3s, I was encoding a low rate at the time) Like noone would notice me attempting to email 3 CDs full of stuff, AND email a CDDA. And this was a guy that considered himself a "computer guru" (his words).

People just don't get that email is not a very good file transfer system.

 

[DnetMHZ]

My boss 1.8 gig

 

[loup garou]

Some of my less computer-savvy clients, around 2-3GB.

 

[alareau]

Here we cap the mail box at 20mb and the pst's on the network are capped at 100megs. Anything over that goes to their c:\drive

 

[Viper GTS]

We have multiple users with 4+ GB mailboxes.

Upper management absolutely refuses to delete anything, & everything stays in their exchange stores.

We were forced to upgrade to Exchange 2003 Enterprise because of this behavior (passed 18 GB limit).

We have fewer than 50 people employed, and not all have e-mail. Exchange Enterprise is VAST overkill for our needs, but they were more willing to drop the $6K than they were to delete.

They even went so far as to tell EVERYONE not to delete anything.

Viper GTS