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9th June 2008

More on the max item count in your mailbox

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Microsoft recently updated the MSDN article that talks about the maximum items you should have in your mailbox so that optimal performance remains. I’ve said it many times before, but I’m against stubbing/shortcutting/extending or whatever kinda name the archiving vendor may give to the technology as it increases the risk for the performance problems.

After all … it isn’t the size of the Exchange Database that dictates how well it performs .. its the amount of items.

So I would say that this is recommended reading fo all of you

http://tinyurl.com/5o6vku

(shortened it since it is a crazy long MSFT link)

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  1. 1 On June 16th, 2008, rob said:

    What about stubbing messages over a certain size. So instead of adding stubbed messages for archive messages back into the mailbox thus increasing the size of the item count, only stub certain types of messages? Most verndors should have an outlook plugin allowing the users access to their archived email

  2. 2 On June 16th, 2008, Martin Tuip said:

    An outlook plug-in is not required if the vendor has done their software coding homework well. While a plug-in has obvious advantages of the amount of features the vendor can push to the users desktop it also decreases the deployment speed of the application in general.

    With the large mailboxes possible in Exchange and the fact that archiving solutions can delete data from Exchange as it is already in the archive there isn’t a true need for stubbing, however I can see that organizations will keep wanting to leverage the technology.

    A proper archiving solution however will almost certain offer a way to stub/extend/shortcut/archive a specific messageclass (like for instance voicemails).

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