Export storage limits information

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Fernando Carvalho

I need export storage limits Exchange from each user in my
active directory.
How i can do that?
I try use CSVDE and LDIFDE but i dont know the atrributs i
need to use.
Any help?

Thanks

Fernando
 
Fernando,

I am not sure what you are asking. Do you want to know what the maximum
allowed size is for each users mailbox? Meaning, once a user reaches, say,
475MB he/she will receive a message stating that he/she is approaching the
administratively set limit and should clean up. Then, once a user hits,
say, 485MB he/she will receive another message stating that he/she has
reached an administratively set limit and that he/she can still receive
messages but no longer send messages and finally when a user hits, say,
500MB he/she will receive a message stating that he/she has reached an
administratively set limit and that he/she will no longer be able to send or
receive any messages.

Is this what you are asking? If it is, then you can look on the Exchange
Server and look for System Policies. It would be located, IIRC, under
Administrative Groups | <First Administrative Group> | Servers |
<servername> | System Polices.

Now, remember, you can override this Policy be going into each user account
that you want to 'enhance' or 'decrease' and manually enter those numbers.
I am sure that this is what you are trying to figure out.

I would go with LDIFDE for this. I have to run a test for this to give you
what the attributes would be. I will do that in a minute. Stay tuned for
another post.

HTH,

Cary
 
Fernando,

I am just now getting home so I will have to do this tomorrow. Sorry for
the delay.

Cary
 
Fernando,

I finally have this for you. The last two days have been extremely busy.
Sorry for the delay.

Anyway, the first attribute that you need to determine is the
'mDBUseDefaults:' attribute. If it is set to "True" then whatever the
defaults are will apply. Please keep in mind that the 'default' can be
unlimited.

For each user account you will simply see the attribute 'mDBUseDefaults:
True'. This would be the case if you have not explicitly set any limits on
that particular user's account ( in the Exchange General Tab in the Storage
Limits section ).

Let's take the example where you have a Limit Policy set up on the Exchange
Server where the limits are 500000 ( to receive the warning ), 550000 ( to
be prevented from sending any more e-mails - but can still receive e-mails )
and 575000 ( to be prevented from both sending and receiving e-mails )
respectively.

Furthermore, it is deemed that the three HR people and the five Tech Support
people need to have a higher limit. You would simply go into each of the
eight specific user accounts and manually enter in, say, 600000, 650000 and
675000, respectively. Naturally, you could use some other method of doing
this if you had more than a handful!

If you were to look at every one's user account - except those specific
eight user accounts - you would see the entry 'mDBUseDefaults: True'.

However, for those eight specific user accounts for which you manually set
those limits, you would see the following:

mDBUseDefaults: False
mDBStorageQuota: 600000
mDBOverQuotaLimit: 650000
mDBOverHardQuotaLimit: 675000

HTH,

Cary
 
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