Help with Outlook and archiving!

[utvols20]

I think everyone has a coworker that doesnt delete ANYTHING (including Deleted Items) so about a couple of months ago i archived some files for him. And now his mailbox is up to 2.8 GB. If i archive with the same archive file that i made last time, will it overwrite all the mail items that i'll archive now? Thanks abunch!

 

[sawedoff]

You can archive to another file, just create a new PST file, and put stuff there.

One way we solved that is to set the exchange server so that there is an upper limit on the mailbox sizw. When you approach 180M, it wants you, and at 200 M your mailbox is not allowed any further emails in OR out. Amazing how it causes people to keep it cleaned out. They are allowed as many PST files as they can get on their own PC, but no more on the server.

Sawedoff

 

[utvols20]

he already has a couple of archive folders. i didnt want to put too many on there. also for future references how can i go by of setting his mailbox to a certain max?

 

[sawedoff]

See this link if he has 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=832925

Otherwise, there is already a 2G file limit on PST files, although I have known of some that didn't lock up until they were at 2.1 or 2.2. If that happens, you'll be lucky to recover it all.

Our limits were set on the Exchange server and are company wide limits.

Sawedoff