RE: Exchange Defrag / VMWare / Windows Server 2003 / Exchange 2007

2010-10-13 Thread greg.sweers
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

RE: Exchange Defrag / VMWare / Windows Server 2003 / Exchange 2007

2010-10-13 Thread Bruce Berkow
- 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

Re: Exchange Defrag / VMWare / Windows Server 2003 / Exchange 2007

2010-10-12 Thread Rubens Almeida
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 =