Can I display the size of my mailbox when close to quota, in Outlo

[Eric Baines]

We are using Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007.

We have a standard warning when the user's mailbox reaches 190Mb and a block
on sending when it reaches 200Mb.

The latest version of Outlook Web Access (OWA) has a neat facility whereby,
when you are over the lower limit (190Mb), it displays exactly how much space
you are using, all the time, and it is updated as you delete items.

I would really like to be able to do this in standard Outlook. Is there any
way I can do this?

Thanks in advance

Eric

 

[F.H. Muffman]

We are using Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007.

We have a standard warning when the user's mailbox reaches 190Mb and a
block on sending when it reaches 200Mb.

The latest version of Outlook Web Access (OWA) has a neat facility
whereby, when you are over the lower limit (190Mb), it displays
exactly how much space you are using, all the time, and it is updated
as you delete items.

I would really like to be able to do this in standard Outlook. Is
there any way I can do this?

Right click on Mailbox - Your Name, go to properties and select Folder size.
I know it's somewhere else too, but that's how I'd get there.

 

[Eric Baines]

yes, but OWA displays it all the time, on the main page, without the user
doing anything.

Can I get Outlook to do that?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

We are using Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007.

yes, but OWA displays it all the time, on the main page, without the
user doing anything.

Can I get Outlook to do that?

Out of the box? No. The reason OWA does it is because there's no other
way to pull up the mailbox size. So, in order to provide that sort of data
to the user, it puts it directly on the UI. Outlook, otoh, does provide
a method to pull up the mailbox size. That and there's also the fact that
the people who develop OWA (the Exchange team) are not the same people who
develop Outlook (the Office team).

Could something be written? Sure, possibly. Outlook is very programmable.
I've never thought about a dynamically updating toolbar, but, it might be
possible.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

We are using Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007.

Out of the box? No. The reason OWA does it is because there's no
other way to pull up the mailbox size. So, in order to provide that
sort of data to the user, it puts it directly on the UI. Outlook,
otoh, does provide a method to pull up the mailbox size. That and
there's also the fact that the people who develop OWA (the Exchange
team) are not the same people who develop Outlook (the Office team).

Could something be written? Sure, possibly. Outlook is very
programmable.
I've never thought about a dynamically updating toolbar, but, it
might be possible.

As I think more about it, I'd be concerned about response times considering
that Outlook can have multiple message stores, so the 'heads up display'
would need to recalculate as you move from one pst, to your online store,
to whatever.