Personal Folders-Any advice?

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David Wood

At my company personal folders are used for users to archive email when the
Exchange mailbox reaches its limit. The pst file is located on the user's
home drive.
The problem is that as this approaches 1 Gig it becomes slow and unweildly.
Personal folders are not that user friendly to set up so technician need to
do this for the user. There's also a high risk of corruption of the pst
file. All in all it ends up as a high maintenance job!

Anybody suggest a more efficient way of doing this?
 
Rename the Archive.pst file periodically, and Outlook will create a new one.

Teaching users how to delete stuff they don't really need to keep might also
be a good idea.

If by "home drive" you mean a network volume, this is a bad idea, for the
reasons you've already described.

There are server-based archiving solutions that might serve your company
better. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/housekeeping.htm
 
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