That blog post, plus using some of the new reports available in LPS 2.2, is what I always do.
The only other thing that is potentially true with Exchange 2010 is high MAPI hits. I am travelling abroad and cannot access my servers (no VPN support where I am), or I would send you a script. But the idea is every 4 to 6 hours, take a snapshot of all your mailbox sizes (Get-MailboxStatistics –Server <servername>). Then every 4 to 6 hours later, do it again. Compare the sizes, dump a list of the top 10 that have grown based on that comparison. Repeat. Look at the trend. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beahm, Keith Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange MBX DB growing fast Thank you for the suggestion Michael, and I apologize for not mentioning this. I was following this article http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/18/troubleshooting-rapid-growth-in-databases-and-transaction-log-files-in-exchange-server-2007-and-2010.aspx with no success, and I had quite a bit of fun with the Log parser Studio. Keith D. Beahm | Network Engineer | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP 1201 Walnut Street, Suite 2900 | Kansas City, MO 64106-2150 T: 816.691.3374 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.stinson.com<http://www.stinson.com> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:06 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange MBX DB growing fast Log Parser Studio. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/06/17/log-parser-studio-2-2-is-now-available.aspx From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beahm, Keith Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:53 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Exchange] Exchange MBX DB growing fast We are SP2 RU3 Exchange 2010 with a split subnet DAG. We allow many forms of EAS devices, and have a limited number of BES users. As of approximately the beginning of September one of four DAB databases has begun to grow at a significant pace. We have been growing by approximately 6GB per day, and normal growth previously and currently is closer to less than 300MB per day per DB. I have pulled numerous MailboxStatistics reports and found no abnormal mailbox sizes or trends. I have checked the events logs for 10107, 10108, 8230, and 8264 (i.e. referenced in DB growth TechNet articles). I have run Exmon and Log Parser looking for user based anomalous activity and found none. Any suggestions or observations would be greatly appreciated. Keith D. Beahm | Network Engineer | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP 1201 Walnut Street, Suite 2900 | Kansas City, MO 64106-2150 T: 816.691.3374 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.stinson.com<http://www.stinson.com> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This communication is from a law firm and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If it has been sent to you in error, please contact the sender for instructions concerning return or destruction, and do not use or disclose the contents to others.
