Anyone know of a Exchange 03 reporting tool?

[David]

Or script?

generating reports on user mailboxs size/items etc etc etc

 

[Longy]

I use SBS and it does all that for you

 

[David]

ah right, ok. any other options?

 

[Longy]

small business server - gives you a full report in a nice bar graph layout - very pretty

 

[@Spoonie]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb288481.aspx

 

[David]

that doesn't do the reportong indicidual mailboxes??

 

[sargey]

What are you wanting to find out?

Mailbox size can be found in system manager.

 

[David]

i need reports generated for management on usage i.e. top offenders. Also reporting on average transport times and things of that nature.

 

[sargey]

i need reports generated for management on usage i.e. top offenders. Also reporting on average transport times and things of that nature.

Top offenders of what? Volume of email sent? Size of mailbox?

 

[sargey]

Try this link..........

http://www.google.co.uk/search?clie...ange+reporting+tools&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

 

[David]

i'd rather someone with knowledge of software post up what they have used as otherwise i wouldn't of asked mate...

top offenders of email size and mailbox size would be perfect.

 

[sargey]

Fair enough.

Best way to view mailbox size is in system manager. I would just do a print screen. Saves installing trial versions of software etc.

As for email sizes, I would just be a cnut and turn on size limits and wait for people to complain.

 

[David]

not helping!

 

[rctempire]

To be honest all our clients have limited quotas for email. After the exchange on a sbs goes over 16GB weird things happen, so reg had to take it up to 25GB. So we limit email space.
NO ONE ever needs 1GB of email, so no need to have it.
Enable quotas but alert the user in the options then do a full send a recieve ban after say 990Mb.

Seriously its for the best, people dont deal with emails properly, deal with email save it to appropriate folder then remove it from the outlook. Most people use the Inbox as a store and it is completely wrong.

I would seriously consider about making the exchange any bigger with no limits as its really a bad idea.

Archiving and saving attachments out of the email in company folders are the way to go, not in the email account.

 

[Daz]

After the exchange on a sbs goes over 16GB weird things happen, so reg had to take it up to 25GB. So we limit email space.

Well, Ex 2003 SP2 removes the limitation and raises it to 75GB. You do need to edit the registry to get that large, but it runs perfectly fine. Default stays at 18GB, but the registry entry is a fully supported feature.

1GB of mail isn't really that much now is it? Heh.

 

[Woodentop]

Or script?

generating reports on user mailboxs size/items etc etc etc

If your company is not going to invest in a decent reporting tool like promodag (like mine) then you will have to script it. Exchange 2007 is much easier to do this type of thing but it is not impossible in 2003. All the exchange information can be accessed via WMI i can send you some starting points if you want.

If you want top senders and mail delivery times then you will need to get something to run through the tracking logs. I import my logs into SQL and run reports against the database but there are some free tools out there to do this.

 

[Woodentop]

After the exchange on a sbs goes over 16GB weird things happen, so reg had to take it up to 25GB. So we limit email space.

Well, Ex 2003 SP2 removes the limitation and raises it to 75GB. You do need to edit the registry to get that large, but it runs perfectly fine. Default stays at 18GB, but the registry entry is a fully supported feature.

1GB of mail isn't really that much now is it? Heh.

He is using SBS so we can assume it is a small/medium company and 1gb of mail each is plenty.

 

[rctempire]

After the exchange on a sbs goes over 16GB weird things happen, so reg had to take it up to 25GB. So we limit email space.

Well, Ex 2003 SP2 removes the limitation and raises it to 75GB. You do need to edit the registry to get that large, but it runs perfectly fine. Default stays at 18GB, but the registry entry is a fully supported feature.

1GB of mail isn't really that much now is it? Heh.

Most of the SBS clients we have do get limited. The SBS Exchange does get the 16Gb limit then SP2 changed that to 75Gb. But if a user has over 1Gb of email they aint dealing with it properly to be honest. We do have exceptions with Server clients and Exchange seperately, but why have more than 1Gb of email, thats what the network drives are for.

Very true, mostly moving to 3Gb though with the new exchange limit but it still a pain in the bum when users use email as a storage facility.

 

[Mike_182]

MOM.

 

[Daz]

but why have more than 1Gb of email, thats what the network drives are for.

Very true, mostly moving to 3Gb though with the new exchange limit but it still a pain in the bum when users use email as a storage facility.

Why change to 3GB? 1GB is plenty. :rasp:
Microsoft love the 2GB recommendation.. although I'm sure they're just stuck on the old 2GB max PST file size stuff.
The real limit is just a trade between storage, backup times, SLA, number of users.. but then it gets boring
As soon as you archive off e-mails, you lose a lot of useful functionality.. but that's a different topic for a different thread for a different day

Anyway, like Mike said, MOM is the way.

 

[Mike_182]

Very true, mostly moving to 3Gb though with the new exchange limit but it still a pain in the bum when users use email as a storage facility.

Why change to 3GB? 1GB is plenty. :rasp:
Microsoft love the 2GB recommendation.. although I'm sure they're just stuck on the old 2GB max PST file size stuff.
The real limit is just a trade between storage, backup times, SLA, number of users.. but then it gets boring
As soon as you archive off e-mails, you lose a lot of useful functionality.. but that's a different topic for a different thread for a different day

Anyway, like Mike said, MOM is the way.

I'm all for 250Mb mail files - I've saved EVERY email I've received in the last 2 years (~40 legitimate business emails a day and ~100 personal) and I've only ever archived ONCE.

We use Lotus Scrotes, which is just the shittest email system in the world. Good at the rest of it, but s**t at email.

As Daz said, archiving off loses you functionality - although if you're intelligent you save any attachments you need off to your home folders/my documents/p**n collection and delete it from the email message.

 

[Daz]

Why change to 3GB? 1GB is plenty. :rasp:
Microsoft love the 2GB recommendation.. although I'm sure they're just stuck on the old 2GB max PST file size stuff.
The real limit is just a trade between storage, backup times, SLA, number of users.. but then it gets boring
As soon as you archive off e-mails, you lose a lot of useful functionality.. but that's a different topic for a different thread for a different day

Anyway, like Mike said, MOM is the way.

I'm all for 250Mb mail files - I've saved EVERY email I've received in the last 2 years (~40 legitimate business emails a day and ~100 personal) and I've only ever archived ONCE.

We use Lotus Scrotes, which is just the s**ttest email system in the world. Good at the rest of it, but s**t at email.

As Daz said, archiving off loses you functionality - although if you're intelligent you save any attachments you need off to your home folders/my documents/p**n collection and delete it from the email message.

Same - until only recently, I've started deleting spam.. I used to just put it into a Spam folder before and leave it. I also tend to get rid of newsletters now, but up until about a month ago, I never, ever deleted an e-mail.