Dave
Fri Mar 11 10:25:43 CST 2005
The alternative, which IMO may be more realistic financially, is to get your
users' mailboxes down to smaller sizes. You could have just a huge
housekeeping issue, where users have been storing sent and deleted items for
years. Your users could be using Journal in Outlook, which creates a lot of
data - if they don't need it, turn it off. Or they could be storing a lot
of attachments. Most likely a combination of all.
I'd recommend teaching everyone the Outlook archiving process, and seeing if
you can get them to archive their older items out to PST files (make sure
you back them up if the data is important). Also, have them clean up
whatever can be cleaned up, then empty their deleted items folders. If
anything can be moved to public folders, that would help too - the 16 GB
limit is per-store, so PF items don't count against the mailbox store's 16.
This limit is a frequent source of complaints to Microsoft, so I'd imagine
there has been talk of raising or eliminating the limit. Personally, I'd be
looking at controlling mailboxes to comply with the existing limit for as
long as possible, in the hope that the limit will eventually go away. I
suspect the cost of Enterprise, plus hardware and OS, will be a real
eye-opener : -)
"Music Lover" <music@my-heart.org> wrote in message
news:eSeh4FeJFHA.2728@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> from a Microsoft KB article:
>
> Exchange Server Mailbox Store Does Not Mount When the Mailbox Store
> Database
> Reaches the 16-GB Limit
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828070
>
> No permanent solution except upgrading to Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise
> Edition ?
>
>