Exchange 2000 Question
- From: Chris Wall <Chris.Wall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Exchange Yahoo (E-mail)" <MS_Exchange@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "ExchangeList (E-mail)" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:59:19 -0400
Hello all,
Below is a message from a buddy of mine who is not an Exchange admin,
but has been put in charge of a datacenter that happens to run Exchange
2000. As a 5.5 admin, I would like to get someone else's opinion before
recommending a solution to him....
Thanks,
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hey man,
>
> I have a question about Exchange maybe you can help me with:
>
> 1. The exchange database files a few months ago were around 2-3 G,
> suddenly they jumped to 9 G in the last month or so. No one has really
> been using email and after checking the mailbox sizes it doesn't add up to
> 9G. Does exchange 2K automatically run a defrag on the database or is
> that something I need to do manually? Have you heard of any reason why
> the database size would just jump in size like that? I have been looking
> for log files and other crap that might be filling the files up but most
> of that is disabled. I can't find anything on the msexchange.org site or
> Microsoft's site. Maybe the database is just that large all the sudden
> but it seems fishy.
> I am running a backup of the entire database and need to play with the
> server for a bit.
>
> 2. Have you ever moved the default mailbox location? I have a D drive
> with 45 G free so I figured I could just move the mailboxes to that drive
> and leave the C drive alone for the OS. Would that be a good plan or
> should we just extend the C drive out?
>
>
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