My company is on the cusp of implementing a very dubious (in my opinion) policy… Exchange Mailbox Quotas (2GB) while simultaneously disabling the AutoArchive feature in Outlook.
The proclaimed motivation for this action is to free up storage space on the Exchange Server, which is fine, but concurrently disabling AutoArchive seems like it will create all kinds of “Oh Crap I shouldn’t have deleted that” or “I need this e-mail for a law suit defense, where is it?” situations.
In instances where I was in direct control of these systems, I’ve always IMPOSED AutoArchive rather than disabling it, so this new policy seems a bit counter intuitive to me.
What do you think of this, and if your company is doing this, what is your experience of its effect on the user-base?