I am Dale Hayter, a Microsoft and VMware certified Technical Consultant.

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Increasing the Rules Quota limit in Exchange Server 2010

In the previous versions of Exchange Server we cannot play with the mailbox rules limit that is only 32kb (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886616). Using Exchange Server 2010 we can do that through Exchange Management Shell. Let’s see how to do that..

The cmdlet utilized to set up the mailbox is called set-mailbox:

Set-Mailbox  -RulesQuota:

Let’s change the user Anne to 256KB limit using set-mailbox.

Set-Mailbox annec -RulesQuota:256KB