Oulook 2011 + Exchange quotas

[rockpapergoat]

For those of you in Exchange environments and using Entourage or Outlook 2011, do you use mailbox quotas?

If so, how do you deal with mail archiving or local mail storage?

A client of mine operates an Exchange environment with no quotas and no mail archiving in place, so they have 20 GB+ mailboxes in some cases.

Most of this should be handled by policy. I'm looking for any feedback, both policy-related or technological.

Thanks,

Nate

[Matt]

2GB standard limit is in place. For archiving we have people export to RGE regularly.
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[jarednichols]

What's a quota?

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[#4]

Have a look at Enterprise Vault.

[talkingmoose]

Our quota is 250MB but we do make exceptions for some folks who tend to
On 5/24/11 9:02 AM, "Nate St. Germain" <nate at techsuperpowers.com> wrote:
receive larger than normal messages. Folks are on their own to archive
messages but archive files (PSTs) are not allowed to be stored on our
servers although that's not really getting enforced here. I have seen it
enforced in other locations.

You've hit the nail on the head, though -- this is a policy issue. It can
be addressed in some technological ways but at the end of the day upper
level management needs to make the call about how they want to manage
company data. IMHO, email servers should not be used as a means of storing
data long term leaving mail administrators to be responsible for hundreds
or thousands of personal information retrieval databases extending years
into the past.

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[jarednichols]

No plugin for Mac. But yes we're using it already.
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Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436

[bentoms]

Most "enterprise" archive solutions move attachments to another server.

Some keep links to the moved files as HTML so when you click on them you'll be directed to a web store.

I've used an old version of legato, which archived with no HTML links. But it worked.

Regards,

Ben.