Thursday, October 21, 2010

Limiting the size of pst file

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A critical point in the administration of any network is the file used to archive e-mail messages from Microsoft Outlook clients, the famous ´ s pst files.

Something critical in administering these important files is the administration of the same size, since a very large PST in addition to causing slowness in searches of messages, the large size can (and probably will) cause corruption of the file.

For Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007 (not yet tested in 2010 … .. but I believe that works well) we limit the size of PST by changing registry keys on the workstations.

Here's a link:

http://support.microsoft.com