Comment Re:For God's sake (Score 3, Interesting) 501
* Disclaimer: I work for Xemplify IT, we sell software in this area *
In my experience, significant quantities of your mail will be made up by movies & pictures being mailed around - it's risky to remove this carte blanche because some can actually be business related.
The second worst abusers are marketing and accounting staff. Not so much the volume of mail but the large attachments they tend to exchange, like monthly reconciliation spreadsheets, printing proofs, etc. The good news is handling these guys is easy -- if you really want to reduce your storage requirements/restore times without trying to force people into deleting mail you *need* to look at compressing old attachments. Most people find on average across the entire company they'll pull back around 38% of what's sucked up by PST's.
There's loads of software out there to help you with this. Some support Exchange & PST's, some like ours focus solely on PST's. Prices vary wildly but the big players are us - PSTCompactor http://www.pstcompactor.com/, Sherpa Software (http://www.sherpasoftware.com/) and PSTCompact (http://www.pstcompact/)
Hope this helps and love to have you as a customer ;)
In my experience, significant quantities of your mail will be made up by movies & pictures being mailed around - it's risky to remove this carte blanche because some can actually be business related.
The second worst abusers are marketing and accounting staff. Not so much the volume of mail but the large attachments they tend to exchange, like monthly reconciliation spreadsheets, printing proofs, etc. The good news is handling these guys is easy -- if you really want to reduce your storage requirements/restore times without trying to force people into deleting mail you *need* to look at compressing old attachments. Most people find on average across the entire company they'll pull back around 38% of what's sucked up by PST's.
There's loads of software out there to help you with this. Some support Exchange & PST's, some like ours focus solely on PST's. Prices vary wildly but the big players are us - PSTCompactor http://www.pstcompactor.com/, Sherpa Software (http://www.sherpasoftware.com/) and PSTCompact (http://www.pstcompact/)
Hope this helps and love to have you as a customer
