Check mailbox policy for system cleanup times.
From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 Hard Drives Filling UP Check for Deleted Mailbox Retention on the Limits tab of the database properties. The deleted mailboxes are retained in the database for this period of time; the freed space will not be reusable until then. From: Chris Pohlschneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 Hard Drives Filling UP Hello All: I am fairly new with Exchange 2003 and I have inherited an Exchange server that has not been properly managed in the past. What I am running into is that priv1.edb file and priv1.stm files are growing at a rapid pace. In the past, there have been no restrictions set on mailboxes and I know that is causing this issue because people are not cleaning up any old e-mails. I have cleaned up some old mailboxes by archiving them to pst file and then deleting the mailbox out of Exchange. This has totaled around 10GB of space that should be reused by exchange. However, I am noticing that my priv1.edb file is still growing a little bit each day. My assumption was that it would not grow for a little while at least since I freed up 10GB of space. Would anyone be able to give me some pointers on why this file continues to grow? I know in order to reclaim disk space, I would have to do an offline defrag, but it does not make since to me why the file is still growing. Thanks for any help in advance. Windows Server 2003 Standard with Service Pack 2 Exchange 2003 Enterprise Chris Pohlschneider Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 937-494-2559 ________________________________ This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ________________________________ ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this document. Thank you. Butler Animal Health Supply ********************************************************************** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
