Hi, Ed Where can I get the USEUTIL tool? Is that built-in? Thanks John Shi -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:08 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: How would I be able to delete the deleted retention for all u sers in one shot? ESEUTIL /D isn't itself dangerous, ESEUTIL is. Take a full backup first, then go ahead and compress the store if you're out of space. I don't know if you need two servers or just more disk space. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation All your base are belong to us. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:04 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: How would I be able to delete the deleted retention for all u sers in one shot? Thanks to Ed and Mike I am going to just build another Exchange server to share the load. Perhaps 150 users on one server and another 150 users on the new Exchange server. ESEUTIL /D is dangerous according to Ed's saying. I think I am not ready for that yet. Thanks again. JOhn Shi -----Original Message----- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: How would I be able to delete the deleted retention for all u sers in one shot? That is all correct. However, the information store will not shrink. To reduce the size of the information store, you have to run ESEUTIL /D. Danger! This utility is dangerous! Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Tech Consultant Compaq Computer Corporation All your base are belong to us. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Morrison Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: How would I be able to delete the deleted retention for all u sers in one shot? I'm not sure I understand what you did, but here are two thoughts as to your problem. First-- if you opened up your user's mailboxes, went to the Tools menu, selected Recover Deleted Items, and then deleted everything from the deleted items recovery window, then they are gone. Those items no longer exist on the server, can not be recovered, and are no longer taking up space. Second-- if you want to do this for all users without opening their mailboxes, go to the properties page of your private information store (in Exchange Admin) and knock the setting for deleted items retention down from 30 to some other number (15 or 0 whatever). When nightly maintenance runs overnight, the deleted items past the retention stage will be purged. Mike Morrison NT/SMS/Exchange Administrator Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: John Shi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:40 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: How would I be able to delete the deleted retention for all users in one shot? Hi, Everyone I enabled the deleted retention last month for 30 days retention. I am almost running out of my disk space. I think that is why my MTA service keeps stopping. It would take long time to get rid of everyone's deleted rentention if I have to go to each user desk to do that. What I did right now is go to each user's desk and then click on the outlook tool tab and click on the recover deleted item. I have disable the deleted retention(30days), but the deleted item would stay in the server for 30 days. Is there a way I could force it to get rid of all the deleted item right the way? 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