And I wouldn't do the offline defrag, they scare me. Do the move option. -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL ability
Nope, you won't get back the space unless you do one of two things. Create a new mailbox database and move the active mailboxes to it. The resulting database will be smaller. Or you run an offline defrag of the existing database. That will get back the whitespace in it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Calvin McLennan Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL ability Excellent! that works! Since it stays in replication mode until the move request has been cleared - I expect that means that the space on the original database never gets cleared either until the clear of the move request occurs??? I so hope that brings back a lot more space! Thanks Jim! Cal -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: November 29, 2017 3:10 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL ability You probably just need to clear the old move request from the original move. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351276%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Calvin McLennan Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL ability A client that I have managed for years - on SBS2011 - I had created a couple of extra databases for Exchange that I would move old accounts to in order to try and reduce the size of the main database, speed things up, etc. These added databases are on different drives as well if that will matter. Now - on the original database the MOVE LOCAL option is there for any account in that database - but for the accounts showing as attached to the added databases that MOVE LOCAL function is not available. What I was hoping to do was to be able to move the account back or to another database - but that feature seems gone when you add a database. Ideas anyone??? Thanks Cal
