You should be able to upgrade to Exchange5.5 Enterprise with no changes to your domain. It is pretty straightforward (choose re-install, and then reapply the service pack you were at and all patches).
Other than that, the offline defrag may work, if there is enough free space in your .edb (I'd check your most recent App Event ID 1221 for the public/private databases to see how much free space was reported by the last online defrag). You will want to check on licensing issues if you care about such things, since enterprise is a more expensive license (and 5.5 isn't sold anymore). Henry > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronni Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 3:59 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: exchange 5.5 standard size limit problem > > > My exchange 5.5 server has stopped (event ID 1112) > because the mailbox store hit the 16GB limit. A user > being stupid copied nearly a GB of data in this > morning before I had any idea what he was up to. Yes, > we should have had limits I guess, but my boss has > always refused to allow it. Yes we should upgrade to > Enterprise but we hadn't done it yet and have to > upgrade the domain first anyway. Yes all the users had > been warned we were running out of space and they > should be careful. Yes I have been pestering my boss > to upgrade for months now. > > I can't get the store to come up long enough to do > anything such as clean a mailbox or delete one or get > in with a client to delete a message with a big > attachment. Once in a while it does come up just long > enough to go down again the instant I try to do > anything. Usually and for the last three or four tries > it fails to start successfully. However it gives no > reason why - it says it is giving no reason why. It > does not produce an error message (other than the > Event ID 1112) in the event logs. > > I found article 828070 searching eventid.com but it > only applies to Exchange 2000 and 2003 as nearly as I > can tell. > > Should I try eseutil /d (to a network drive so it will > take hours) to see if I can scrounge enough space to > get the store to come up long enough to run clean > mailbox and othewise delete enough stuff to get back > up or should I call PSS first? Do they have some > cunning reg hack that would allow Exchange 5.5 to come > up long enough for me to delete stuff for example as > it appears they do for Exchange 2000 and 2003? > > Restoring from backup is a suggestion I have already > received and am considering. But I may have problems > doing that since the backup autoloader has also > decided to behave oddly today. Although according to > BuExec it did successfully run last night's > incremental and I have a full from earlier this week > as well as the incrementals. If I can get the drive to > work. > > I'd suspect a power issue but everything is on UPSes. > > Anyway, any suggestions will be gratefully received. > > Thanks, > > Ronni > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
