re: Exchange mailbox quotas and a 'paradox of thrift'

Colin Walker — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:07:05 GMT

"A 100,000+ user bank who estimate that over 50% of the total data they back up, every day, is PST files"

Sounds like where I work!

Our Exchange quota is 100Mb. A number of users have archived data in KVS Enterprise Vault but, due to storage issues, they do not add anyone else to the Vault. Everyone else has PSTs hosted on central shares on the network (yes, I know!). Even those with an archive on the Vault have PSTs as well.

So, we have 3 sources of data all being backed up with no limited to the number of PSTs an individual can request - once one is full just raise a request for another.

The whole sarbox thing and compliance has gone too far the other way with everyone thinking that they need to keep everything, and there is no guidance on what they do/don't need to keep.

The last report indicated a total of 6657GB of PSTs in use and that is just for the European Office. I'm suprised that we don't get more calls regarding corrupt PSTs.

There's got to be a better way!

re: Exchange mailbox quotas and a 'paradox of thrift'

Ewan — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:27:24 GMT

8-O

Those are some scary numbers, Colin...

There is a better way: Managed Folders ;-)

The business case for Exchange 2007 - part II

The Electric Wand — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:40:23 GMT

(This is a follow on to the previous post on measuring business impact , and the first post on the business