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  • Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:33 PMRob Amstutz Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Good Morning.  In our exchange 2003 SP2 Environment, we have set the max mailbox size for users to 150MB.  The problem we are having is that many users have 4-10 DIFFERENT PST files, averaging 1.8g - totalling 150g.    PST files account for 1/2 of the data on our file Server.   How does your company limit the amount of PST FIles a user can have?  Many of these PST Files are CYA and archiving.  Thanks for your suggestions!

     

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  • Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:36 PM--Vinod-- Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Probably the below article wll answer your Query

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336
    Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|
     
  • Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:43 PMRob Amstutz Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    thank you for the links, I will review.     In addition, how much data are companys allowing their users to retain?  IE, Mailbox Size?  # of PSTs?  Size of PSTs?
     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 7:40 AMElvis Wei -MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Rob,

     

    There is no way to limit a user to create a pst file. pst file is not associate with a user, everyone can achieve and open it. Even if you can limit its number, they can forward the emails to another account and achieve them. You can limit the pst file size, but you can’t control the number of pst file they can create. Second, we don't recommand you put the pst file in the file server.

     
    Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019


    Thanks,

     

    Elvis

     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 3:48 PMRob Amstutz Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    thank you for your reply.  What are other company's doing?  Do they have a larger mailbox size?  Do they outlaw the use of PST files?  or do they let the users create as many as they want?
     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 4:02 PMjarrett faulk Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    We have 1 gig user mailboxes and we've seen PST files as large as 20 gigs.  Most PST file are stored locally on the machine's but backing them up over the wire is a real (fill in your own thoughts).  I think the most pst files related to one user that i saw was 8 or 9 and each of them was about 3 gigs spread out across the network and local machine. 

    We are currently looking at moving away from pst files altogether and forcing users to delete unneeded read receipts and sent items.  If something needs to be saved they will have to save the email specifically.