50gb mailbox limit

[Shadow_Walker]

Having a few people hit there mailbox limit and don't/won't delete any emails. What options are there from here?

[3s-gtech]

Cite GDPR, and that the list of very sensitive student information from 2013 that they've filed in the 'Misc Other' folder should not be there.

[Boredguy]

We enforce a mailbox retention policy across the trust, so our accounts never get that full as the most that the majority can keep is 1 year's worth (select staff get up to 3 years) Edited December 2, 2019 by Boredguy

[jthompson]

50GB mailboxes suggests that they're not using their regular file storage as they perhaps ought to be. How does their file storage usage compare?

[DrBeaker]

What email platform?

[Edu-IT]

Having a few people hit there mailbox limit and don't/won't delete any emails. What options are there from here?

Backup old emails and delete.

[Shadow_Walker]

What email platform?

Office 365

[Steve21]

Office 365

 

Which plan are you using? A lot of them have the option of enabling 100GB limits using powershell, just aren't enabled by default

 

(Not that a 50Gb size "should" need increasing, but might be easier than arguing if you got the option for free and it isn't using up your network storage etc)

 

Set-Mailbox "email" -ProhibitSendQuota 99GB -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 100GB -IssueWarningQuota 98GB

 

Might be worth a try and see if yours allows it

 

Steve

Edited December 2, 2019 by Steve21

[mavhc]

Sort by size, delete that one email with 100 photos attached, then switch to GSuite with unlimited storage

[chazzy2501]

Setup an archiving policy, they won't loose access to their emails from 5 years ago. I'm not sure where archive emails are stored though

[Boredguy]

Depends if you enable the online archive or not.

If you don't, it just moves it to another folder within your mailbox.

Online archive creates a new mailbox that is outside of the 50Gb limit