Exchange, Archiving and Outlook

[phuturetech]

Hi,

Due to a lack of space on our aging servers we have recently imposed a limit (100mb) on exchange accounts and started getting our users to archive old mails and then mount the pst's in Outlook.

Now the disk space for Exchange has improved but we've taken a massive hit on disk space due to the replication of data in each archive. So is there a way to limit the size of each archive? The only way I could think of was if we had a spare 2K server and used NTFS Quotas for each user but this is not an option.

All (low-cost) suggestions appreciated!

Scott

 

[KingofSketch]

Is there a reason that you are holding the PST's on the same server as the mailboxes,

We tend to have store PST's on a users private home directory on one of our data servers, this free's up space on the exchange server and also means that all the PST's get backed up every night.

Sketch
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[phuturetech]

The psts files are stored on the same server, but on a different Raid array. The pst files are stored in users home directories. We have no performance problems (yet) with Exchange we just have a general lack of disk space.

Cheers

Scott