My mailbox size is 7.4GB. I send/receive around 200 emails a day; so that 7.4GB of email goes back several years. I don't use too many rules so most of my email ends up in my Inbox (30k items).
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Published Dec 17, 2007
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Ian_m
Nope, sorry, there is no way to propogate your sync settings to sub folders. What I describe in this article requires a search based mailbox structure (simple organization combined with search to find what you need). It does not work well with the “create sub folder for every category” type of mailbox processing.
Rickp
I am not going to argue the performance aspects of XP vs Vista. Regardless of which OS you use, you will hit performance issues with large OST’s at some point. The methodology I described above works well on both OS’s.
OSTPST
The server resources to maintain my 8GB mailbox are minimal. It gets fully backed up once per week (incrementals daily) and does not get virus scanned daily (we scan at the transport level). Since I am on CCR there is a fast recovery mechanism so the chance of going to the backups is very, very small (we have yet to do it in over a year in production).
I am not sure about where you work, but where I work my email is not mine, it is the corporations. If I am terminated, I will not be taking my work email with me; it stays with my job. This issue highlights an aspect of the security risks with PST’s. Not using them is more secure for exactly the scenario you describe.
Dustin Lema
Yes, +2GB OST on Outlook 2007 present a performance problem. The point where it becomes painful depends on several factors; most importantly the hardware (disk perf). The whole point of this article is to provide a method for folks to have those 20GB mailboxes and still have a good cached mode user experience.
Mike Crowley
No, you don’t need to use MRM for this, but it reduces the mailbox management burden on the user (for this scenario).
E2k7 is required for the MRM functionality (and better performance due to 64bit and lower IOPS on the server). The manual method will work with E2k3 just fine.
A series of performance optimizations were made to Outlook 2007 SP1 to improve the OST performance.
Frank
Sorry, there is currently no ingenious answer to your question. We understand this is a serious issue and is something we hope to address down the road.
Nope, sorry, there is no way to propogate your sync settings to sub folders. What I describe in this article requires a search based mailbox structure (simple organization combined with search to find what you need). It does not work well with the “create sub folder for every category” type of mailbox processing.
Rickp
I am not going to argue the performance aspects of XP vs Vista. Regardless of which OS you use, you will hit performance issues with large OST’s at some point. The methodology I described above works well on both OS’s.
OSTPST
The server resources to maintain my 8GB mailbox are minimal. It gets fully backed up once per week (incrementals daily) and does not get virus scanned daily (we scan at the transport level). Since I am on CCR there is a fast recovery mechanism so the chance of going to the backups is very, very small (we have yet to do it in over a year in production).
I am not sure about where you work, but where I work my email is not mine, it is the corporations. If I am terminated, I will not be taking my work email with me; it stays with my job. This issue highlights an aspect of the security risks with PST’s. Not using them is more secure for exactly the scenario you describe.
Dustin Lema
Yes, +2GB OST on Outlook 2007 present a performance problem. The point where it becomes painful depends on several factors; most importantly the hardware (disk perf). The whole point of this article is to provide a method for folks to have those 20GB mailboxes and still have a good cached mode user experience.
Mike Crowley
No, you don’t need to use MRM for this, but it reduces the mailbox management burden on the user (for this scenario).
E2k7 is required for the MRM functionality (and better performance due to 64bit and lower IOPS on the server). The manual method will work with E2k3 just fine.
A series of performance optimizations were made to Outlook 2007 SP1 to improve the OST performance.
Frank
Sorry, there is currently no ingenious answer to your question. We understand this is a serious issue and is something we hope to address down the road.