Mailbox Limits take an hour to become active 1

[agetley]

I changed one of my users storage limits from the company default to a higher limit and it took an hour for the change to become active in Exchange 2003.
Can this update be forced through more quickly?

 

[ekke]

have you tried the recipient update service, update now?

//:EkkE

 

[agetley]

I've tested this and it doesn't seem to make the update any faster. Any other suggestions?

 

[zbnet]

You are seeing this delay because individual mailbox limits (unlike the general default store limits) are attributes of the user AD object. So when you set individual mailbox limits, the AD object is marked as modified, and then a background maintenance thread is responsible for carrying over these modified attributes to the store.

It worked like this in Exchange 2000 as well, except there was a KB article about changing the interval that this maintenance task ran at (KB280498) - unfortunately MS seem to have removed this article, maybe because they've tweaked how it works in Exchange 2003, and it is no longer possible to alter the interval on this background maintenance task.

See

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159306/EN-US/

for more details.