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Create and configure public folders and placement

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Create and configure public folders and placement

- [Instructor] Activity in a public folder directly impacts the load that's placed on the public folder mailbox where the folder is located. To avoid client connectivity issues such as high latency or the inability to access a public folder, we recommend you do the following. Don't let public folder mailboxes exceed 50% of the mailbox size limit. For instance, if we set the limit to two gigabytes, don't let is get above one gigabyte in order to prevent latency. Consider moving heavily used public folders to a dedicated public folder mailbox. This would mean creating a mailbox and only including the one public folder. We can also add public folders to increase the amount of mailboxes that we're using. And we can exclude heavily used public folders from serving in the public folder hierarchy. What we would do here is to create a shared mailbox instead, which could serve the same purpose. Don't forget to back up the mailboxes frequently and place public folders near the users. By having…

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