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What would you like to see in Mailbox Manager in future versions of Exchange?

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The_Exchange_Team
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May 06, 2004

We're looking for some feedback on the mailbox manager feature, in three parts:

#1: If you use it today, why - what scenarios do you use it for? For example, to reduce mailbox size to reduce backup time, to keep users under a certain SLA mailbox size, corporate retention policies, etc... just tell us any details you're willing to share on how and why you use it today.

#2: What does it do today that you like?

#3: What does it not do today, that you'd like to see it do in the future? Especially for those of you who don't use it today, is there some change we could make to it that would make you want to use it?

Please add your feedback to the comments of this entry. Thanks in advance,

- KC Lemson

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    I'd like to be able to exclude a specific folder or message class by name. For example, I'd like to clean out my inbox, but have it ignore voice mail messages from Cisco Unity. Or, I'd like to move my voicemails into a folder and have all folders cleaned but that one.

    Agree that being able to fire a specific policy against a selected mailbox(es) on an ad-hoc basis would be good.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    I agree with the previous person that something similar to Clean Mailbox would be great. We have faculty that may be off for a half year and want their mail purged when they return. Also would like a easy way to exclude someone from mailbox manager.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    I miss the "Clean Mailbox" feature from 5.5. The Mailbox Manager is similar, but it would be really nice to be able to fire off an on-demand mailbox purge. We're still using EX2K, so if that's in 2K3, feel free to ignore my suggestion.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    Avility to customize messages sent to users regarding size limits / full mailbox / cannot send mail etc - our management feels they are rather harsh and would like to personalize them to our company and policies.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    I would like to see Mailbox Manager become more granular in it's application. For example to start the process on a specific mailbox, the store or storage group vs. the whole server.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 07, 2004
    I would love to see the Mailbox Manager be able to remove messages based on their read/unread status. We would like to be able to purge student mailboxes based on age and whether the message is unread or not.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 06, 2004
    Why can't you have multiplie policies apply to the same account? For example I use one policy to empty the deleted items every night. And I'd like another policy (or the same policy that is flexible enough) to report messages over 50mb.

    It would also be nice if you could specify any specific folder by name. Instead of just the standard folders and then the "All Folders" entry.

    And I'd like to be able to purge deleted items from IMAP users accounts.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    May 06, 2004
    Using the Exchange 2003 Mailbox Manager I haven't found a way to manage a user mailbox and delete email for a non system folder only. I know I can do it by selecting the check box to include sub folders but I only want to limit a specific sub folder and not the Parent.
    The spam filter I am using creates additional folders; a main SPAM folder that resides on the same hierarchal level as the user's Inbox and then 3 sub folders. The folder I am most interested in using the Mailbox Manager for is one of these sub folders.So to summarize it would be cool if it can traverse sub folders.

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    Anonymous
    May 06, 2004
    I would like to see if moved out of recipient policies and maybe into its own space in esm.
    Another request I get all the time is who is being skipped etc, I know it is easy to do a ldap search... but what if you could right click a user in dsa and select mailbox manager settings and choose from a policy to apply or see what is applied to that user...my two cents

    Jon G

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