Boost your attachment size with this one weird trick Microsoft has increased the maximum attachment size accessible to users of Outlook Web Access (OWA) under Office 365, with 150MB of digital baggage now able to hop aboard emails. Admins worried about blowing storage allowances and congested networks needn't worry: Microsoft makes it possible to dial permitted total attachment …
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Oh FML. Aussie sysadmin here.
I can hear the support calls generated as clients try to email each other monster sized excel spreadsheets and then wonder why their web browsing speeds crawl to a halt as one workstation saturates the upstream of the bog standard Australian Liberal Govt approved ADSL link.
I consider my self a light drinker, that is, i start drinking when i see light... after this i may become a nocturnal drinker...
Make it zero. Please kill that despicable tendency everyone has to mail files around.
Business knowledge is lost in email. It must be properly filed on a network location, and email only serving links to the latest version.
All this attachment emailing is the best way to lose information or lose time finding it. Stop it.
Not really sure why someone felt you deserved a downvote, but I'll go on record and back you up ...
Attachments are fine if they're KISS compatible. But as teams grow, spread, homework, and take on long running projects, using attachments to exchange information becomes increasingly problematic. I am sure if I called for a show of hands, there will be a number of El Reggers who have encountered problems caused by team members faithfully updating and circulating an out of date document because they didn't receive/notice/start with the latest copy. Or because the copy they *should* have got was quietly killed by their spam filter (maybe it was a spreadsheet that looked a bit PCI uncompliant)
Just wait till that document is part of a tender and the client sees the last-but-one version rather than the current one.
Another "fun" issue is when the team resides in different companies with different email systems (and policies) so some peoples emails are killed (see above)
Heck, even dropbox is better than that.
And then there's the classic trick of the 20-MB pdf carefully crafted from within powerpoint, that just contains the date, time and location of a meeting. Because of course there was no way to put that in plain text in the body of the email.
Oh and let's not forget the old "I put the price of that new stappler you were looking at in the attached Excel file. Good reception."
> Business knowledge is lost in email. It must be properly filed on a network location, and email only serving links to the latest version.
And now your sales team wants to send a quotation to that potentially very lucrative customer.
Not everyone is connected to the local network ...
Just answered an email from my old (OK, not-so-old) daddy honestly at loss with a request from his editor. The man's down-with-the-kids teacher, published author, and a bit trained in the ways of software, by yours truly (or so I wished).
The Question? "My publisher asks for a plain-text version of the book as well as the PDF, what is it and how do I do that?" [summarised and translated].
Oh, the humanity. He's using OpenOffice, too.
If you're looking for me I'll be over there under that oaktree, busy hanging myself.
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