I sent my Exchange server on a round trip one day just before 5pm. It was an honest accidental event. I was remotely attached to it via SMS and instead of disconnecting properly, I rebooted it. It was rather fun ;)
Sherry Abercrombie
Data Center Administration Team
Information Technology
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
-----Original Message-----
From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
I would! I like to choose the most inconvenient time to do these types of things so my off-duty hours are not affected... :P
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:13 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
Yep. (Obviously you don't wanna do this during normal usage hours ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:59 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> So........if I stop and restart the services I should see the "real"
> size at the time the services were restarted?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:55 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> As long as the file is opened, you don't see the change in Windows
> Explorer.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:53 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> I was concerned that I would not be able to monitor the size of the
> database. I was checking it using explorer and it has steadily
> maintained 10-11GB. I never worried about it. Now that it is 15.5GB
> I became more
> concerned.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Smallwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Instead of "suspecting" that you have whitespace, why not check the
> event log? event ID 1221 if I remember correctly...
>
> not to mention what other have eluded to:
> -mute point if you have 5 gigs of free space and not over 16gb limit
> -lots of downtime-risk -what problem do you think will be solved?
>
> PLUS- at least this way, Exchange wont have to use cycles to resize
> the DB as it grows...
>
> Thank you,
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
>
> "MHR(Michael
>
> Ross)" To: "MS-Exchange
> Admin
> Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc:
>
> Subject: RE:
> Information
> Store Maintenance
> 07/10/2002 12:22
>
> PM
>
> Please respond to
>
> "MS-Exchange
>
> Admin Issues"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> AMEN BRUTHA!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Morse, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:18 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
> I ran it on two different servers that had been running for 3
> years.
> Each IS was around 32 GB. It took about 3 hours and
> was 5 GB when it
> was finished. The biggest improvement was that the
> backup didn't use
> 32GB of space on the tapes every night.
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MHR(Michael Ross) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
>
> It should take you about 2-3 hours.
> Our database is 27 GB in size and im going to defrag it
> this
> weekend.
> I should be able to shrink it to about 25 GB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Personette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:11 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
>
> Think he may be worried about bumping the 16 gig limit for
> non
> enterprise???
>
>
> Jay Personette
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> (281) 455-3993
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:54 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> You don't need to run this utility. Exchange maintains
> itself -
> are you having problems that you believe will be resolved?
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:52 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> Greetings Knowledgeable Exchange Admins
>
>
> Our Exch5.5/SP4 WNT4.0/SP6 information store is beefed up
> to
> 15.5GB. I was planning to run the ESEUTIL to clean up the
> database. I suspect there is a lot of space that can be
> reclaimed and by defragging the store things
>
>
> *should* run more smoothly. I have never done this so
> bravely
> I go forward, but not before asking for the sage
> advise of the
> list.
>
>
> A couple of things I would like to know are:
>
>
> 1. Approximately how long will it take? The box is a
> Dell
> PE2400 dual
> PIII-600 1GB-RAM. I'm just looking for a ballpark so I
> can
> schedule the time.
>
>
> 2. Are there any precautions, other than backups, I
> should
> take?
>
>
> 3. Are there any known problems with the utility
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Dan Munley
>
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