Depends on your deleted items retention. The Exchange MB will contain deleted items held until the retention period passes. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud
________________________________ From: Jason Benway To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Mon Jun 22 09:42:45 2009 Subject: RE: exchange 2003 db cleanup I'm with you on the process, I'm just trying to figure out why outlook is telling me one mailbox size and exchange is telling me another. I found this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891789 The reg keys on in the exchange server. jb ________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: exchange 2003 db cleanup The "clean up" processes do run automatically on an Exchange server. However, I believe that your perception of what they will do is in error. Look for an event id 1221 in the application log on your Exchange server, you should have multiples of this event daily depending on how many information store databases you have. This event informs you that the online defragmentation has completed on a specific store and how much free space (white space) is available. You will not recover that free space in any way shape form or fashion unless you run eseutil. This is not a recommended process to run unless directed to by Microsoft PSS. Your Exchange server will run much more effeciently with available white space in its databases. It will not have to grow a database to accomodate the need for more space if that white space is already available to it. Most Exchange admins allow their Exchange servers to run in this fashion. Eseutil is to be avoided unless you want to screw up your Exchange server. It can be used if there are serious issues with an information store that need to be resolved and really should only be done at the direction of PSS. On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Jason Benway <benw...@jsjcorp.com<mailto:benw...@jsjcorp.com>> wrote: Normally isn't there a scheduled task/event that runs within exchange to cleanup the db and free up whitespace. Before we moved over a bunch of mailboxes from another org we archived all mailboxes so they where smaller than 100megs. But now that we moved them over a bunch of them are larger than 100 megs, but viewing through outlook they should be below 100. I'm thinking the db cleanup process should run and correct this. I've ran a full backup, which didn't reclaim any of the space. I know about eseutil, but I thought the cleanup processes ran by themselves. Jason Benway System/Storage Engineer 616-847-8474 telephone 616-850-1208 fax www.jsjcorp.com<http://www.jsjcorp.com/> [cid:575504113@22062009-0144] JSJ Corporation 700 Robbins Road Grand Haven, MI 49417 ________________________________ This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
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