Hi there,

I have read some of the postings about large PSTs, but am still struggling
to come up with a strategy. At my company, we use Exchange, and archive to
PST files. Some of the archive files get very large (in the gigabytes). The
people with those large archive PSTs often need real-time access to the
e-mails in those PSTs. From an Outlook performance standpoint, would it help
to break the PSTs up into multiple, smaller PSTs (say, by year), and have
those smaller PSTs all visible within the Outlook client? Or is there a
better way people have found to deal with this?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,

- Earl

That indeed could help in performance terms. However, I would recommend
using a server-side archiving solution instead of using pst-files. In the
long run this is much cheaper and easier to handle than getting local
pst-files all over your network clients.

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"Earl E" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5906E084-2A79-4D88-B4CC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there,
>
> I have read some of the postings about large PSTs, but am still struggling
> to come up with a strategy. At my company, we use Exchange, and archive
> to
> PST files. Some of the archive files get very large (in the gigabytes).
> The
> people with those large archive PSTs often need real-time access to the
> e-mails in those PSTs. From an Outlook performance standpoint, would it
> help
> to break the PSTs up into multiple, smaller PSTs (say, by year), and have
> those smaller PSTs all visible within the Outlook client? Or is there a
> better way people have found to deal with this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>
> - Earl
>

You dont mention the Outlook version, presumably 2007? and that these data
files were created by 2007, and not an earlier version

"Earl E" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5906E084-2A79-4D88-B4CC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there,
>
> I have read some of the postings about large PSTs, but am still struggling
> to come up with a strategy. At my company, we use Exchange, and archive
> to
> PST files. Some of the archive files get very large (in the gigabytes).
> The
> people with those large archive PSTs often need real-time access to the
> e-mails in those PSTs. From an Outlook performance standpoint, would it
> help
> to break the PSTs up into multiple, smaller PSTs (say, by year), and have
> those smaller PSTs all visible within the Outlook client? Or is there a
> better way people have found to deal with this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>
> - Earl
>

The Outlook version is 2007, but the PSTs may have been created by 2003.

- Earl

"DL" wrote:

> You dont mention the Outlook version, presumably 2007? and that these data
> files were created by 2007, and not an earlier version
>
> "Earl E" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:5906E084-2A79-4D88-B4CC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have read some of the postings about large PSTs, but am still struggling
> > to come up with a strategy. At my company, we use Exchange, and archive
> > to
> > PST files. Some of the archive files get very large (in the gigabytes).
> > The
> > people with those large archive PSTs often need real-time access to the
> > e-mails in those PSTs. From an Outlook performance standpoint, would it
> > help
> > to break the PSTs up into multiple, smaller PSTs (say, by year), and have
> > those smaller PSTs all visible within the Outlook client? Or is there a
> > better way people have found to deal with this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
> >
> > - Earl
> >
>
>
>