Mailbox And Attachment Limits
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TL;DR - migration is happening, but keeps being delayed to funds
So do you spend money needed elsewhere to bandaid an old box or do you massage the old crusty one to get another couple months out of it?
Good news of all this is we've got it all backed up & everyone up the chain is very aware of the situation
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In general I recommend the largest limits you can reasonably have. For small companies, many terabytes of email storage is trivial as far as cost and it is very easy to have far more storage than anyone is reasonably going to use. Most people don't use much email storage and the cost to attempt to block a few offenders from using a lot often costs a lot and accomplishes little when for very little money you can make those people happy with no real downsides.
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Most enterprise hosted email is 50GB as a starting point for mailboxes today and I think that that should really be thought of as a general minimum. Always a special case somewhere to the contrary, but if you are running email in house I would expect that it only makes sense to have even higher limits because you get shared storage in a different and more effective way and because you get your storage at lower cost.
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I'm drooling at the thought. We are going to shoot for 20gb to start with the ability to expand later
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Most exciting for me is the end of PST files - import them all back in and get that horrific error prone crap off my servers
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@MattSpeller said:
Most exciting for me is the end of PST files - import them all back in and get that horrific error prone crap off my servers
Yes, that is a huge benefit. Once you have mailbox limits, people start to do horrible things to work around it making the problem so much worse.
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One place I worked we've did 30-40GB for Managers and office workers etc. Part Time, Laborers etc. would get a email account with 10GB limit and no access with ActiveSync nor could the check there's from home. As management didn't won't hourly employees to be able work outside of normal hours even if by choice.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Once you have mailbox limits, people start to do horrible things to work around it making the problem so much worse.
Holy shit yes
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@MattSpeller said:
Most exciting for me is the end of PST files - import them all back in and get that horrific error prone crap off my servers
This is one of the first file extensions I always block on file servers. PST file can cause major network issues.
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@scottalanmiller said:
As I often point out, if your users find it product to have 50GB or even 500GB of email storage and the company feels that they are not worth spending the money on to have that amount of storage.... why are you paying to employ those people if they are so worthless?
It's not that I think the employees are so worthless, it's that managing email is different than managing a file server, mostly in regards to who has access to the data.
For example - I love the idea of Sharepoint! Get those files out of email and into a system that's easy to share files with other users (within the same company, and with hosted Sharepoint possibly easy to share with those outside the company).
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@thecreativeone91 said:
This is one of the first file extensions I always block on file servers. PST file can cause major network issues.
Preach it brother
We have folder redirection on for this client* so imagine the fun when they save a PST in mydocs
*don't ask, it wasn't my idea
