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December 22nd, 2009 12:00
Any Examples of what companies cap their Email inboxes at?
We are attemptiong to convince upper mgmnt that Exchange Email inboxes should be capped. The space and the work to continually migrate mailboxes around by our Exchnage group is unbearable. I know that many companies do cap inboxes as where I came from they were capped at 100mb and once reached sending and receiveing emails was halted under work was done to drop under the limit. We are over 50,000 users and growing. We are also migrating from Exchange 2003 - Exchange 2007
Any limit examples or best practices is appreciated.
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December 23rd, 2009 08:00
We are working towards limiting mailboxes at 450 for average user, and 1gig for heavy user. That being said, Receiving email when quota is reached will never be blocked, because it is thought this would cause a problem with business flow. Sending email however, will be blocked until resolved.
We Shortcut all mailboxes any messages older than 90 days, and we still have massive mailboxes.
It has been 2 years trying to get approval to implement this cap.
Really, it depends on how large you want your databases to be. The larger, the more you must pay for the high speed storage to store it, verses the lower performance drives that EX storage can get away with. Plus, the larger your databases, the more maintenance and downtime should something go wrong with one or all. Not to mention backup storage space.
Best of luck with your caps. It is the right thing to do, just hard to get it implemented after the fact.