I so wish our client company would let us impose mailbox size limits...
We just went live with an email migration (local Exchange server to cloud) yesterday, which has gone a lot harder than it needed due to their email server being on its last legs. Basically we were afraid to make any changes to it that would have made things alot easier. No updating, no changes. We were afraid that it would die if we looked at it wrong.
Most of the last few weeks have been filled with me putting out fires on site, especially yesterday. But I haven't been on site for more than 15 minutes (not even enough time for my daily backup check) when I'm getting yelled at. Basically, after the migration, Outlook needs to index the users' mailboxes again. The user who's upset with me has 84k emails to index.
I'm supposed to know how long this is going to take, apparently, and I've got nothing. As I'm trying to get two words out to try to explain why I can't make an estimate: "Can't you google it? Call Microsoft! Call your coworkers!" (I'm the earliest one working btw). It varies from mailbox to mailbox and from system to system, and with 84k emails, I can't make an estimate, and neither can anybody else.
All the while I'm fighting back the urge to scream at her "DELETE AN EMAIL EVERY NOW AND AGAIN!"
Urgh.
Bonus: During the migration, the largest mailbox I saw was around 8GB, looking forward to his call [/sarcasm].
We just went live with an email migration (local Exchange server to cloud) yesterday, which has gone a lot harder than it needed due to their email server being on its last legs. Basically we were afraid to make any changes to it that would have made things alot easier. No updating, no changes. We were afraid that it would die if we looked at it wrong.
Most of the last few weeks have been filled with me putting out fires on site, especially yesterday. But I haven't been on site for more than 15 minutes (not even enough time for my daily backup check) when I'm getting yelled at. Basically, after the migration, Outlook needs to index the users' mailboxes again. The user who's upset with me has 84k emails to index.
I'm supposed to know how long this is going to take, apparently, and I've got nothing. As I'm trying to get two words out to try to explain why I can't make an estimate: "Can't you google it? Call Microsoft! Call your coworkers!" (I'm the earliest one working btw). It varies from mailbox to mailbox and from system to system, and with 84k emails, I can't make an estimate, and neither can anybody else.
All the while I'm fighting back the urge to scream at her "DELETE AN EMAIL EVERY NOW AND AGAIN!"
Urgh.
Bonus: During the migration, the largest mailbox I saw was around 8GB, looking forward to his call [/sarcasm].
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