>>>> We are using Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007.
>>>>
>>>> We have a standard warning when the user's mailbox reaches 190Mb
>>>> and a block on sending when it reaches 200Mb.
>>>>
>>>> The latest version of Outlook Web Access (OWA) has a neat facility
>>>> whereby, when you are over the lower limit (190Mb), it displays
>>>> exactly how much space you are using, all the time, and it is
>>>> updated as you delete items.
>>>>
>>>> I would really like to be able to do this in standard Outlook. Is
>>>> there any way I can do this?
>>>>
>>> Right click on Mailbox - Your Name, go to properties and select
>>> Folder size. I know it's somewhere else too, but that's how I'd get
>>> there.
>>>
>> yes, but OWA displays it all the time, on the main page, without the
>> user doing anything.
>>
>> Can I get Outlook to do that?
>>
> Out of the box? No. The reason OWA does it is because there's no
> other way to pull up the mailbox size. So, in order to provide that
> sort of data to the user, it puts it directly on the UI. Outlook,
> otoh, does provide a method to pull up the mailbox size. That and
> there's also the fact that the people who develop OWA (the Exchange
> team) are not the same people who develop Outlook (the Office team).
>
> Could something be written? Sure, possibly. Outlook is very
> programmable.
> I've never thought about a dynamically updating toolbar, but, it
> might be possible.
As I think more about it, I'd be concerned about response times considering
that Outlook can have multiple message stores, so the 'heads up display'
would need to recalculate as you move from one pst, to your online store,
to whatever.
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f.h.
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