What is the largest exchange mailbox where you work?

[ROcHE]

I have seen more thant a gig on Outlook Express. It was damn slow to open :Q

 

[CraigRT]

the largest here I think is right around 4 gig too
this particular mailbox gets most of our order traffic though, and stuff is archived both on the server and on the computer for data redundancy.
nothing we can do about this one. and we only have exchange standard edition, so it's like 17gig for the whole company max.

 

[imported_Phil]

1.2Gb for my boss, mine's like 10Mb.
The entire server size is running at 6Gb at the moment.

 

[vi edit]

2.6 gig consisting of over 26,000 emails.

priv1.edb is at 7.5 gig.

 

[Czar]

damn, saw this when I was at work but forgot about it

have to check on monday, think its about 1gig

 

[Homerboy]

you guys try compacting those extra large .psts?
I just compacted a ladies here (my boss) who routinely hits 2GB death levels.... compacted... 90MB. I couldn believe it (I cleaned out all the sent items and perm deleted her deleted folder before compacting)

 

[JDub02]

The last place I worked, one of the VP's locked himself out of his computer. He removed all permissions from his hard drive because he was paranoid that someone could read his files.

So, I backed everything up and reimaged the drive. Among the things I backed up ... 10+ gb mailbox

 

[Platypus]

Let's say I know the hard limit for PST size was 20GB for office 2003 because a lot of the users I work with have mailboxes that large.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Let's say I know the hard limit for PST size was 20GB for office 2003 because a lot of the users I work with have mailboxes that large.

Good god. What did it take, 15 minutes for Outlook to open?

 

[dman]

Lots of companies paranoid about legal requirements and doc retention these days. I imagine companies like KVS will start raking in the dough, and eventually there'll be successful movements to limit data retention requirements.

We purge emails every 90 days (rolling). If you need to keep something longer it can manually be changed. Also we can archive to local files. Certain users are exempt from the 90day purge... buy few and far between.

 

[shiner]

We have a 75mb limit here. At 50 you get a warning, at 75 you can no longer send or receive mail.

We also don't allow .pst files.

It was sooooooo nice to finally convince the higher ups to let us do that here.

In case you are wondering.....we have approx 4300 mailboxes.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
We have a 75mb limit here. At 50 you get a warning, at 75 you can no longer send or receive mail.

We also don't allow .pst files.

It was sooooooo nice to finally convince the higher ups to let us do that here.

In case you are wondering.....we have approx 4300 mailboxes.

8600Gb :shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend

Originally posted by: shinerburke
We have a 75mb limit here. At 50 you get a warning, at 75 you can no longer send or receive mail.

We also don't allow .pst files.

It was sooooooo nice to finally convince the higher ups to let us do that here.

In case you are wondering.....we have approx 4300 mailboxes.

8600Gb :shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:

That's if they maxed them out.

The average user here has a mailbox between 5-10mb. In fact there are only a few people(just under 200) that ever get anywhere close to their max size limit.

 

[Danman]

Each user has 1 gig of space. We have about 1000 employees.

 

[Stark]

Originally posted by: Danman
Each user has 1 gig of space. We have about 1000 employees.

that sounds about right. Unfortunately, our exchange admin is a moron so we're capped ad 50MB with warnings at 40MB. Anything over that has to go in personal folders on the local C: drive.

If the budget goes through, I'll have my own exchange box next year for my group that I get to lord over.

 

[Mill]

If users would DELETE e-mail that they don't need this wouldn't be a problem. >*

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Mill
If users would DELETE e-mail that they don't need this wouldn't be a problem. >*

That is my next convinving job I have to do to the higher ups.....until now they have refused to even consider a retention policy.........

 

[Svnla]

We don't have a firm set limit at our place but if you go over 1GB, IT will send you a reminder.

My old work place had a cap around 500MB.

 

[slycat]

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

drag her out and shoot her.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MaxDSP

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

Notes or something?

Unfortunately. It's better than exchange, but it's still a big turd.

 

[m2kewl]

some of our mgmt users have 8gb mailboxes

my boss got tired of their refusal to delete, we implemented KVS w/IP san to offload any mail older the 90 days. i just make sure to buy the most expensive HP equipment...not like it's my $$$

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: slycat

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

drag her out and shoot her.

I went to her office and looked at her outlook, 1033 UNREAD items in deleted items... i asked her if she could empty it out because I was going to be moving her mailbox, and I had to show her you could right click on deleted items and permanently delete them... over 4000 emails in there, made her mailbox drop down to about 1.9GB