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Exchange Enterprise vs, Standard? (2003)

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by cortezpjr

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I learned the hard way that Standard Exchange can only hold 16GB worth of information in it's two main database files for the mailbox information store...and have now have a dilemma of either coming up with and enforcing limits on peoples mailboxes or upgrading to Enterprise that allows for Terabytes worth storage. I've investigated other ideas, like personal folders use and find that most don't want to do that because information is not readily available from any machine...

Has anyone ever had to upgrade and started using server clusters? Is this transparent (I assume it is)to the user or is it slower with apps like webmail?

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by s_k_k

If budget is not a concern, I would go ahead and upgrade it to Enterprise. Upgrade process is seamless and easy.

If budget is a constrain, then I would follow the below given steps

1, Use MS Spam filter (or any other SPAM filter that is already in use) to figure out all SPAM emails and get them out of the exchange database

2, Run Defrag utility on exchange database to shrink it to help increase the free space within it

3, Advise users that all old emails (like a year old or 2) should be downloaded into their PST files in the next 30 days or will be deleted. And delete the old emails from the exchange database after 30 days as I said.

4, you won't believe it. but some users are always interested in downloading their Emails to their PST files(especially Laptop Users) So you may want to revisit to see how many such people are willing to download into their PST files.

by douglasemc

is this 75 Gigs per user? of for the whole data base?

sorry if this is a stupid question but i'm not very familiar with exchange and we are (by we i mean me) in the process of migrating to exchange server.

-Doug

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