There are a few, very specific situations where ESEUTIL is called for. In general, there is no reason to take your stores offline and run ESEUTIL. It does nothing to help the server along, and the amount of time it takes just adds up to unnecessary down time in almost all cases. There's certainly no need to run ESEUTIL on a regular basis for "maintenance" - Exchange's online maintenance is darn good.
I've NEVER run ESEUTIL unless there was a real, specific need to do so. If you feel you must must must run it, then I'd use a copy of the database and run ESEUTIL against it on a different server. I dunno why one would do this, except to practice for a critical situation where ESEUTIL would actually come in handy. Missy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan Mann Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc So you're telling people to never take their stores offline and use eseutil? Or are you advising not to do certain types of offline maintenance? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevinm Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc Offline maintenance should not be something that you do to an exchange server, ever. I am getting close to publishing an official manual for ESEUtil. In the conceptual topics about each mode, there is a section that covers what not to do. Offline maintenance is mentioned in this document, as a no, no. Go exchange in my mind is the same as phone based toner salesman, and the guys who come door to door and try to sell you 30,000$ of windows that would cost you 3,000$ at Lowes, but the installation is somehow free, and that price is only good right now. --Kevinm WLKMMAS http://www.wlkmmas.org Wonder what To get me cuz you love me? This link will help http://www.hedonists.ca/index.php/gift-wish-list -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Blevins Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:17 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc There's a section about scheduled maintenance tasks in Exchange. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alborzfard, Alex Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc I just checked the article, but I couldn't find anything about online maintenance in there. Did I miss something? Alex Alborzfard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Blevins Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:56 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc Yes, ESM. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/OperationsG uide/41bddd59-d365-4f86-b644-fa1b1efcb2db.mspx -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alborzfard, Alex Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:55 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc I couldn't find this Event ID on either Application or System logs. How often does EXCH do this and can it be modified, if so how: thru registry change or ESM? Alex Alborzfard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Blevins Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc When Online Maintenance finishes it pops Event ID 1221 and it tells you in this event how much whitespace you've got. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alborzfard, Alex Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc How can one determine what % of database is whitespace? Is there an Exchange counter for this? Alex Alborzfard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Blevins Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc Whitespace is not a problem, and as a matter of fact, its recommended that your databases have around a 20% section of whitespace. The reason for this is that whitespace can be written to in a much more efficient way than the option of re-adding on-disk space to the database for each write. You're right on the money regarding offline defrags. The only time you really need to do this is when a large number of mailboxes have been deleted or moved, and your whitespace is approaching 40-50 percent of your total DB size. I'd say you're in great shape on that DB, and no, whitespace will NOT cause missing emails/unusual behavior etc. This would be caused by table or page corruption in a database, which shouldn't happen in Ex2003 unless there are disk issues. Good luck! :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Gowen Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:03 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: GOExchange vs ESEUTIL etc I've been looking at GOExchange because of the boasts that the manufacturers make about it and the doom scenario they put out. It seems that the product uses ESEUTIL and ISINTEG on a regular basis to keep white-space at bay, amongst other things. But my research of best practice tells me that doing offline database maintenance is not required unless there's a major change, such as the removal of a lot of mailboxes. I haven't ever heard of the performance issues in Exchange that they talk about: unusual behaviour, lost messages, etc unless there's an underlying hardware problem. I've had a 1Gb mailbox removed as a user has left the organisation. I have 1378Mb of free space after online defragmentation, and a priv1.edb of 18,714,024 bytes. Do I need to do an offline defrag or can I let it go? I know that I don't need GoExchange. There are no problems with the system so I'm inclined to leave it alone... Tim _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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