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MKolli
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:03 am Post subject:
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Hi,
I have a situation at a customer’s site with regards to public folders on
exchange 2000. Customer had set up Mail enabled public folders and is sending
automatic e-mails to it (Like alerts, notifications, resumes etc). Most of
them are very short messages. Over the period of time it has grown so large
that it now has over 3 million items.
Now the problem is they cannot open it. Well they can, provided they wait
for 2 hours. And event then, any mouse click will again take 2 hours to
respond. – in short they cannot use it.
I had seen this behavior at other sites too.
My question is
a) How do I extract this data? (Customer says it is important). Using
export? Can I use exmerge?
b) What are the best practices to deal with such situations? Like when
people use such solution (using public folders for auto-archival purposes)
c) Can one create a server side rule to automatically archive these messages
in PFs periodically and move them to different Public folders of manageable
size?
TIA
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Susan
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:58 am Post subject:
Re: Large no. of items in Public Folders - Performance issu |
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you cannot use exmerge against a public folder...you might want to try doing
an export, based on date range...take a small range at first to see how
large the pst file might be...it will be a very time-consuming process, as
you can see...as for the future, I would insist that someone monitor the
folder and perform whatever archiving is reasonable...
"MKolli" <MKolli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9491F6AF-2788-4491-9635-AC13A82B9E2A@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hi,
I have a situation at a customer's site with regards to public folders on
exchange 2000. Customer had set up Mail enabled public folders and is
sending
automatic e-mails to it (Like alerts, notifications, resumes etc). Most of
them are very short messages. Over the period of time it has grown so
large
that it now has over 3 million items.
Now the problem is they cannot open it. Well they can, provided they wait
for 2 hours. And event then, any mouse click will again take 2 hours to
respond. - in short they cannot use it.
I had seen this behavior at other sites too.
My question is
a) How do I extract this data? (Customer says it is important). Using
export? Can I use exmerge?
b) What are the best practices to deal with such situations? Like when
people use such solution (using public folders for auto-archival purposes)
c) Can one create a server side rule to automatically archive these
messages
in PFs periodically and move them to different Public folders of
manageable
size?
TIA
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Andy David - Exchange MVP
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Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:
Re: Large no. of items in Public Folders - Performance issu |
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:03:06 -0800, MKolli
<MKolli@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I have a situation at a customer’s site with regards to public folders on
exchange 2000. Customer had set up Mail enabled public folders and is sending
automatic e-mails to it (Like alerts, notifications, resumes etc). Most of
them are very short messages. Over the period of time it has grown so large
that it now has over 3 million items.
Now the problem is they cannot open it. Well they can, provided they wait
for 2 hours. And event then, any mouse click will again take 2 hours to
respond. – in short they cannot use it.
I had seen this behavior at other sites too.
My question is
a) How do I extract this data? (Customer says it is important). Using
export? Can I use exmerge?
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You can export it out via Outlook. Granted, if it takes 2 hours to do
anything with the folder this may not be such a fun task. :) You may
want to restore the pf to a recovery server and access it that way as
well.
| Quote: | b) What are the best practices to deal with such situations? Like when
people use such solution (using public folders for auto-archival purposes)
Apply age limits. |
| Quote: | c) Can one create a server side rule to automatically archive these messages
in PFs periodically and move them to different Public folders of manageable
size?
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Apply age limits and require the user to work within those parameters.
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