Keep the Item count in your mailbox low!

posted by  hjwin (10)  13 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

I've been doing a little digging today, following a query from a partner company who're helping out one of their customers with some performance problems on Exchange. Said customer is running Exchange 2000, and has some frankly amazing statistics...

... 1000 or so mailboxes, some of which run to over 20Gb in size, with an average size of nearly 3Gb. To make matters even worse, some users have very large numbers of items in their mailbox folders - 60,000 or more. Oh, and all the users are running Outlook in Online mode (ie not cached).

Now, seasoned Exchange profession