Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); “This organization had a centralized exchange system for the entire company and on quick inspection I determined that it had run out of space. Further inspection showed that the vast majority of this was due to a rather full log file directory.”Phil’s confidence then ebbed a little.“I hadn’t dealt with a system this large or for this many users,” he admitted. “The usual fix that I knew from previous experience was to ask users to delete emails from their Outlook clients.”That wasn’t going to work late on a Friday when people were racing to wind up their weeks.While Phil pondered the situation, one of the company’s IT directors came to watch him work.
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- ▪Further inspection showed that the vast majority of this was due to a rather full log file directory.”Phil’s confidence then ebbed a little.“I hadn’t dealt with a system this large or for this many users,” he admitted.
- ▪“The usual fix that I knew from previous experience was to ask users to delete emails from their Outlook clients.”That wasn’t going to work late on a Friday when people were racing to wind up their weeks.While Phil pondered the situation, o
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