en Passant not letting life just pass on by

One thing every corporate employee has to deal with is email. Go on vacation, and you get tons of it. Stay home with a sick kid, and you get a ton more. The work does not stop, even if you can't go. In turn, we either don't take time off, even when needed, or we read our email all the time (Curse you Blackberry!).

As an IT administrator, I would get alerts. Lots of them. Backup alerts, server alerts, email slowness alerts, spam filter alerts, and even alerts that the alerts didn't work! To combat this ever growing corporate 'spam', I created a simple set of rules in Outlook to manage them.

Using Outlook's own auto-archiving functionality to clean-up messages, I was able to maintain a mailbox well within the corporate standards. The attached PDF document details how to duplicate these settings.

Note: A good portion of performance of Outlook in an Exchange environment depends on the local configuration and settings of the Outlook client. Check out this wonderful document created by a former co-worker regarding various settings Microsoft Support recommended.
It can be found here.