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    Hi All,

     

    Could anyone help on this, My Exchange 2003 Std hitting size limit 76 GB, and I have archived mailbox user: 30 GB then run derangement but 

    the size reduce only 500 MB,

     

    Thanks in advance for your commend idea.

    Dara

     

    Tuesday, October 11, 2011 1:42 AM

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    Hello Dara,

     

    You can reclaim the physical disk space after running offline defrag on the databse only if its reported by the online maintenance process. (Which runs every night unless until schedule altered)

    Once you have moved the mailboxes wait for atleast one night for the online defrag process to complete and check how much free space is reported by the evnt ID 1221 for this databse.

    So, you can claim the space reported by this event ID. But the deal here is you should wait enough for the online defrag process to complete then only runnine the offlince defrag by eseutil /d.

     

    Thanks,

    Jasjit Singh Dhindsa | ITIL v3 | IASA Foundation Certified | MCITP:Exchange 2010 | MCITP:Exchange 2007 | MCTS:OCS 2007 | MCTS:Exchange 2010 | MCTS:Exchange 2007| MCSA:Messaging | MCSA:Security | MCSE:Messaging | MCSE:Security | MCP
    • Proposed as answer by Terence Yu Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:41 AM
    • Marked as answer by Terence Yu Friday, October 21, 2011 8:43 AM
    Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:43 AM

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    Hi All,

     

    Could anyone help on this, My Exchange 2003 Std hitting size limit 76 GB, and I have archived mailbox user: 30 GB then run DB defragment with option /d  and p  but  the size reduce only 500 MB,

     

    Thanks in advance for your commend idea.

    Dara

     


    Tuesday, October 11, 2011 1:45 AM
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    Hi,

    Just curious why you ran a /p on a healthy db? The /p is for repairing the database. What you should do is create a new db and move the mailboxes to it.

    Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:02 AM
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    Hello Dara,

     

    You can reclaim the physical disk space after running offline defrag on the databse only if its reported by the online maintenance process. (Which runs every night unless until schedule altered)

    Once you have moved the mailboxes wait for atleast one night for the online defrag process to complete and check how much free space is reported by the evnt ID 1221 for this databse.

    So, you can claim the space reported by this event ID. But the deal here is you should wait enough for the online defrag process to complete then only runnine the offlince defrag by eseutil /d.

     

    Thanks,

    Jasjit Singh Dhindsa | ITIL v3 | IASA Foundation Certified | MCITP:Exchange 2010 | MCITP:Exchange 2007 | MCTS:OCS 2007 | MCTS:Exchange 2010 | MCTS:Exchange 2007| MCSA:Messaging | MCSA:Security | MCSE:Messaging | MCSE:Security | MCP
    • Proposed as answer by Terence Yu Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:41 AM
    • Marked as answer by Terence Yu Friday, October 21, 2011 8:43 AM
    Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:43 AM