Introduction
Often times in Exchange Support we get cases reporting that the size of one or more Exchange databases is growing abnormally. The questions or comments that we get will range from “The...
Updated Apr 28, 2020
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Regardless if it is 5 seconds or 5 million seconds, the fact that basic information about mailbox sizes and database growth is STILL UNSUPPORTED in an Enterprise class e-mail product as a standard basic feature is just nuts.
I find the entire Exchange 2013 product group to be severely subpar to what they have delivered in the past. Exchange 2003 was good. Exchange 2007 was even better, but with complicated clustering. Exchange 2010 was just about perfect. Exchange 2013 is like we're stepping backwards and the EAC is clearly inferior to the EMC/EMS we had in the past. No MAPI. No POP. The web experience for the clients is subpar as well with the new "Metro" look even if it does work on more devices. Profiles now show some random hexadecimal ID number rather which confused people and makes troubleshooting even more difficult.
It's simply an inferior product to what we had in the past all around. It appears that it's only purpose is to push people to the cloud and Office 365 and they have crippled their core product intentionally to accomplish this goal.