Putting a Quota on User Email Accounts *URGENT*

[Arsynic]

I'll get to the point. We have a measly 8 GB HDD that we use to store our company mailbox on and we have about 640 Kb left on the HDD and my boss asked me to find a way to put a cap on how much mail can be stored in an individual user's inbox. I searched and searched throughout the Exchange System Manager and I found nothing on putting a cap on individual mailboxes. I know you can put a quota on the hard drive, but that's much too general for my purpose. I want to be able to make the users delete some mail before they recieve any new ones.

Does outlook or exchange support setting quotas?

 

[brontosaurus]

for the entire DB, go to the properties of the mailbox store to the LIMITS tab. For an individual user, go to the properties of the users account in AD Users and Computers (make sure you're in Advanced View), go to the Exchange General tab, to the Storage Limits button.

 

[Arsynic]

Thanks a whole lot, brontosaurus!

 

[Arsynic]

Bronto, where is this "Add Users and Computers"? I'm in the Active Directory and I can't find it.

 

[timlau]

Arsynic

He meant AD users and computers. I would guess that you are in there already. Find the user that you want to limit their storage and right click on them and choose properties. Then select the Exchange General Tab and click on the Storage Limit button. Then type in what you want their mailbox limit to be...Please remember this is in KB and not MB...



timlau

 

[brontosaurus]

did I say "Add" ? hehe..
thanks for the pickup timlau, and you're welcome Arsynic..