Tracking mailbox growth inside the mailbox Database ? with or without Powershell

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  Hi

  Have a look at the end of this thread, ExInsight:

  http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2007/monitoring-operations/creating-graphical-reports-exchange-2007-part3.html

  You can also check active sync partnerships causing issues:

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/18/troubleshooting-rapid-growth-in-databases-and-transaction-log-files-in-exchange-server-2007-and-2010.aspx

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/mikelag/archive/2009/07/12/troubleshooting-store-log-database-growth-issues.aspx?Redirected=true

  Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:07 PM
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  ok, does the users with the large amount of items in Outbox also contributes to the Exchange Server log file growth ?

  get-mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -folderscope Outbox | Sort-Object Foldersize -Descending | select-object identity,name,foldertype,itemsinfolder,@{Name="FolderSize MB";expression={$_.folderSize.toMB()}} | Export-Csv C:\Temp\Outbox.csv

  
  

  I have executed the script above and got some users with more than 5 GB of size in Outbox and thousands of items.

  Identity      : domain.com/Retail Users/HQ/Retail/James Stravinsky\Outbox
  Name          : Outbox
  FolderType    : Outbox
  ItemsInFolder : 27944
  FolderSize MB : 5087

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  Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:46 AM
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  Hello,

  According to the following article, the large amount of items in outbox also contributes to the transaction log files on the Exchange server growth. (Note: It also applies to exchange 2007)

  http://technet.microsoft.com/zh-cn/library/aa996191(v=exchg.65).aspx

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  Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:10 AM

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  Cara,

  So in this case, shall I instruct the users to move the emails back to the inbox or deleted items ?

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  Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:04 AM
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  Hello,

  Sorry for delayed response.

  To stop the transaction log from continuing to grow, please delete the item out of the Outbox.

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  • Marked as answer by Senior System Engineer Monday, November 18, 2013 6:16 AM

  Monday, November 18, 2013 6:10 AM

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  Cool, thanks Cara !

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  Monday, November 18, 2013 6:16 AM