Personally, I'd move the rest of the mailboxes and delete the old DB... Less time involved...
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Sherry Abercrombie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You will need to do an offline defrag to shrink the database. That would > be eseutil with the appropriate commands in place IIRC. > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Greene < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You need to do an offline defrag to reclaim the space. > > > > > > > > -Andrew > > > > > > > > *From:* SMREKAR, JACK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:44 AM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > *Subject:* reclaiming space > > > > > > > > > > > > I have moved a couple hundred mailboxes from one Exchange server to > > another in hopes of reclaiming some space on the first server. In all so far > > I have moved about 120 gig of mailboxes to the other server but I do not see > > that space coming back on the first server. I do run the online maintenance > > of the databases that is built inside of the system manager. I also get > > emails nightly on what was done. Below is one that I got last night. I was > > under the impression that Exchange would clean itself up after the moves and > > allow the database to shrink after it ran the maintenance. > > > > > > > > Do I have something set wrong or is my thinking wrong. If my thinking is > > wrong do I need to do an offline defrag to get the space back? > > > > > > > > > > > > The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed processing > > mailboxes > > > > Started at: 2008-03-25 02:58:14 > > > > Stopped at: 2008-03-25 03:48:49 > > > > Mailboxes processed: 549 > > > > Messages that would be moved or deleted: 26523 > > > > Size of messages that would be moved or deleted: 125576.70 MB > > > > > > > > > > > > Jack Smrekar > > > > Appleton Area School District > > > > 920-993-7062 Ext. 2123 > > > > A+ N+ Server + > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
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