Interpreting Status of Storage Quotas via Exchange Management Shell

By / May 24, 2017

When using the Exchange Management Shell to view mailbox properties using the get-mailbox task, the output of the task may contain the following information:

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The value of “unlimited” above can be deceiving depending on the circumstance. In order to truly evaluate what the current storage quota status is, it is necessary to also look at the UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults parameter. A value of TRUE on UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults means that the per-mailbox settings are ignored and the mailbox database defaults are used.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/20/428965.aspx


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Anderson Patricio is a Canadian MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management, and Office Server and Services, besides of the Microsoft Award he also holds a Solutions Master (MCSM) in Exchange, CISSP and several other certifications. Anderson contributes to the Microsoft Community with articles, tutorials, blog posts, twitter, forums and book reviews. He is a regular contributor here at Techgenix.com, MSExchange.org, ITPROCentral.com and Anderson Patricio.org (Portuguese).

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