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Don
You forgot to mention that Exchange servers have a 16gig limit per
Exchange server for the maximum size for all mailboxes stored on them.
What this means in today's terms if you manage thousands of users and
they are keep there mail stored on the Exchange server then you could
only have about a couple hundred users mailboxes stored on each mail
server. Do you know what this means if you have thousands of users?
MORE SERVERS... lots of servers. If your trying to keep down the
overhead cost of maintaining your mail servers then storing the mail
on the server is a bad idea. If everyone implemented there email
servers like you recommend and they manage thousands of users then
they are going to have dozens of email servers for only a few thousand
users. We manage thousands of users here and manage with only TWO
Exchange servers, you know why? Because everyone stores there email in
a pst file on there machine. They log into outlook and it downloads
the new mail to there pst file. If you dont believe me on the 16 gig
limit look into it. When an Exchange server reachs this limit do you
know what it does? IT CRASHES... Even with us having users use pst
files there are a few that keep the mail on the server and these
people can store up to 500mb to a 1gig a piece. Can you say CRASH
AGAIN. Using PST's is not bad its good and until MS can up this 16gig
limit people should still use pst's. So you either do it your way and
have dozens of Exchange servers where your having to limit their email
box size, and having to hire more people to admin them, or you can use
pst's and have very few Exchange servers and less problems. And before
you throw out the fact that pst's can only store 2gigs of email, this
have been upgraded to 16gigs in Outlook2003.
Exchange server for the maximum size for all mailboxes stored on them.
What this means in today's terms if you manage thousands of users and
they are keep there mail stored on the Exchange server then you could
only have about a couple hundred users mailboxes stored on each mail
server. Do you know what this means if you have thousands of users?
MORE SERVERS... lots of servers. If your trying to keep down the
overhead cost of maintaining your mail servers then storing the mail
on the server is a bad idea. If everyone implemented there email
servers like you recommend and they manage thousands of users then
they are going to have dozens of email servers for only a few thousand
users. We manage thousands of users here and manage with only TWO
Exchange servers, you know why? Because everyone stores there email in
a pst file on there machine. They log into outlook and it downloads
the new mail to there pst file. If you dont believe me on the 16 gig
limit look into it. When an Exchange server reachs this limit do you
know what it does? IT CRASHES... Even with us having users use pst
files there are a few that keep the mail on the server and these
people can store up to 500mb to a 1gig a piece. Can you say CRASH
AGAIN. Using PST's is not bad its good and until MS can up this 16gig
limit people should still use pst's. So you either do it your way and
have dozens of Exchange servers where your having to limit their email
box size, and having to hire more people to admin them, or you can use
pst's and have very few Exchange servers and less problems. And before
you throw out the fact that pst's can only store 2gigs of email, this
have been upgraded to 16gigs in Outlook2003.