We currently have Exchange 2013 installed. We have decided to use the same disk to hold the Exchange DB's and the Archiving DB's. It's currently setup with a 1GB limit on each users Mailbox and a 3GB limit on the Archive Mailbox. Why not just give everyone a 4GB mailbox limit and do away with the Archive DB's? From what I understand (PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong) you can still do in-place hold on mailboxes, you can still do e-discovery, you can still set retention policies on folders you create in your main Mailbox and all folders will be viewable via ActiveSync devices. I'm I missing anything? I know the thoughts on putting your archive db's on a different disk subsystem but like I said were not doing that. What are my benefits of having a separate archive DB for each user?
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