Is User RSS Feed Content Adding Volume to My Information Stores?
In an Exchange Server environment with clients running default installations of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can add RSS feeds within the Outlook interface. Outlook 2007 can serve as an RSS aggregator that polls subscribed feeds for new content. For more information, see the article “How does Outlook support RSS feeds?” InstantDoc ID 96753. In addition, users can configure an RSS feed to download any attachments or the full HTML for RSS items. By default, these feeds are stored in the RSS Feeds folder in the user’s mailbox when Outlook 2007 is configured using MAPI or Cached Mode. The addition of RSS feeds can increase the growth of the information store because the RSS feeds are pulled from their source through the client and saved in the client’s mailbox. Chances are that your users’ RSS feeds aren’t mission-critical data that need to be maintained within Exchange Server. Let your users know that they can redirect existing RSS feeds to a different delivery location by going t