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Exchange 2010 EMC: Add an Attachment Size Limit in Outlook

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Adding an attachment size limit in Outlook through Exchange 2010 Exchange Management Console (EMC)...

This is common for an entire organization, from the mail box server, from EMC, under Organization, Mailbox->Select database, Properties, do the following:

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Here i mentioned about 20MB attachments to send and receive by the users. The problem here is that, it take a bit time to receive/send because of the high size. So be careful and be patient.

When you do this default setting on the organization level, each users mailbox will have the following (User mailbox database defaults)

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If you want to over write this policy to certain users, go to the users mailbox settings, Storage quotas and edit as below.

First Uncheck the “Use mailbox database defaults and insert the value as you want. This settings will override the defaults.

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Thats all folks!!!