Move everyone else out to a new database, then delete the old one. From: SMREKAR, JACK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 8:44 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 + [cid:image001.gif@01C88E5D.E80789D0] ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
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