I always ask why. Unless you have made a major deletion of mailboxes or mass
deleted gigs of email I would never run a offline defrag. It would be better
to move the mailboxes to a new database. I know its been talked about a lot in
here before. The general consensus if I remember was not
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From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange Defrag / VMWare / Windows Server 2003 / Exchange 2007
I always ask why. Unless you have made a major deletion of mailboxes
It depends! I plan my offline defrags based on how much whitespace the
MBS have and on the free space there's the DB's disk.
Look at the Application logs for the event 1221. Here's a powershell
script I use to make things easier:
$StrServerName = (($Args[0]).ToString()).ToUpper()
$BackInTime =