{"id":65,"date":"2011-03-27T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2013-06-15T13:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T12:25:52","slug":"using-adsiedit-to-increase-user-mailbox-size-beyond-2gb-on-exchange-server-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/03\/2011\/using-adsiedit-to-increase-user-mailbox-size-beyond-2gb-on-exchange-server-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Adsiedit to Increase User Mailbox Size Beyond 2GB on Exchange Server 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you use Exchange 2003 (I’m not sure if the same applies to later versions), you may have noticed that you cannot set a user’s mailbox size to anything greater than 2097151KB (2GB).<\/p>\n

The good news is that this limit is only GUI imposed (soft limit) and not a hard value fixed on the exchange server software it self (hard limit).<\/p>\n

Increasing a user’s mailbox is really easy and safe – however, I don’t recommend that you configure the size to some unreasonable or extreme limit.
\nAs always, a full backup of the mail store is recommended before changing any settings on the Exchange.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

How-To<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Go to Start –> Run<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Type adsiedit.msc<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Go to the container which contains your users<\/li>\n
  4. Right click the user you want to increase the mailbox size for and select Properties<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Edit the values mDBStorageQuota<\/strong>, mDBOverQuotaLimit<\/strong>, mDBOverHardQuotaLimit<\/strong> and mDBUseDefaults<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    mDBStorageQuota<\/strong> is the value (in KB) in which you want to issue a warning.
    \nmDBOverQuotaLimit<\/strong> is the value (in KB) in which you want to prohibit sending of mail.
    \nmDBOverHardQuotaLimit<\/strong> is the value (in KB) in which you want to prohibit sending and receiving of mail.
    \nmDBUseDefaults<\/strong> (boolean) decides whether the default settings should be used or not. You should set this to False if you have configured the above values and want to use them.<\/p>\n

    That’s it! The user should now be configured with the new mailbox size.<\/p>\n

    \n

    mDBStorageQuota<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you use Exchange 2003 (I’m not sure if the same applies to later versions), you may have noticed that you cannot set a user’s mailbox size to anything greater than 2097151KB (2GB). The good news is that this limit is only GUI imposed (soft limit) and not a hard value fixed on the exchange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-adsiedit","tag-exchange2003"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1trTO-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}