Best Practices for Deploying StorSimple Virtual Arrays

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Aidan Finn looks at some of the best practices for using the StorSimple 1200 virtual appliance.

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Office 365 Mailbox Quotas Swelling to 100 GB

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Microsoft is increasing the default mailbox quota for the Office 365 E3 and E5 plans to 100 GB. That’s quite a lot of space to fill, but Microsoft has good reasons for upping the limit.

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Understanding the overhead in an Exchange mailbox database

It’s taken me a while to get around to mentioning the rather useful “Database Growth Reporting” script for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 that was described on the EHLO blog in January.  My apologies for this lapse in service. All I can plead is that other stuff got in the way between now and then and that I never really had a chance to test the code out thoroughly, which is a prerequisite before commenting on software.

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