Yes, this particular customer only has 36GB on the data volume.

Thanks for reminding me about the deleted item retention, I totally forgot
about that :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:43 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: STM Question


Think deleted items retention. Is there a reason you are so concerned
with the size you had to run an offline defrag to reclaim white space
that you most likely have already used?>

--Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrey Fyodorov
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:39 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: STM Question


So... I have a server with 28GB EDB+STM size. Recently defragged offline
with eseutil /d

Ran a report with Mailbox Manager and it says that the total of all
items in all users' mailboxes is ~20GB.

Is this 8GB overhead created by the duplicity that exists between the
EDB and STM files?




-----Original Message-----
From: Webb, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 6:09 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: STM Question


Mostly complete.

I wasn't as much asking a question about it as stating my
dissatisfaction with the explanation in the Q article.

More than just a pointer is put into the EDB file.  A subset of the
message properties are always promoted from the STM to the EDB.  A
further subset are always promoted when the message is read.  The
entirety of the message wouldn't be promoted unless it was modified
(note that forwarding creates a copy of the message which will exist in
the EDB completely.  Also copying a message will result in a complete
EDB copy).

There are several points at which data is converted dynamically and
discarded.  There are also several points at which data is converted and
retained.  It is not as simple as your description or the KB describe
it.  But you knew that, I'm sure.

Back to the beginning question - it is very likely that a lost STM file
will result in lost data.  However in an environment where most data is
either Outlook generated, or has been migrated from Exchange 5.5, the
loss may be less noticable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey A. Beckham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Posted At: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:59 PM
Posted To: Microsoft Exchange
Conversation: STM Question
Subject: RE: STM Question


Information in the edb file is stored in MDBEF and the STM is MIME.

When an SMTP message comes in from the outside, it is put into the STM
file and a pointer to it is put into the EDB for the appropriate
mailboxes.  It will stay in the STM file (Mime format) even if read by
an outlook client.  It will only get converted to MDBEF and kept in the
EDB if the message is then modified and saved.  If a new message is
created in outlook it goes in the EDB file.  It is done this way to cut
back on the conversion that had to be done for every SMTP message from
MIME to MDBEF.

-----Original Message-----
From: Webb, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Posted At: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 3:34 PM
Posted To: Exchange Discussion List
Conversation: STM Question
Subject: RE: STM Question

Sort of.  But the equation of "MAPI" and moreover MAPI Properties with
"Rich Text Format" is just wrong.  How exactly do you convert a date to
rich text format?  What does that mean?

IMHO that article does little to definitively explain what content is
where and when.  It raises lots more questions though.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Posted At: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:03 AM
Posted To: Microsoft Exchange
Conversation: STM Question
Subject: RE: STM Question



Q232323 might clear things up a bit.

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: Felicity Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Posted At: 23 May 2002 14:58
Posted To: Swynk Exchange List
Conversation: STM Question
Subject: RE: STM Question


Mark, are you sure about this? and if so can you send me any references
to it?  I thought that all content is stored in it's native format in
the Exchange Store.  So Mapi is stored as RTF, HTML as HTML, a Word Doc
as a word doc.  Some of the properties are stored in the priv1.edb, but
everything else is stored in the STM.

I am basing this on what I read and when I open up the priv1.edb and the
priv1.stm in notepad.  You have to stop the server to be able to do
this. I also am looking at the copies of these files in C:\Program
Files\Exchsvr\MDBdata.

TIA

--Felicity


> If all your clients are MAPI based (i.e. Outlook) then in all
> likelihood you have not lost much at all since any attachments 
> originally delivered to the STM will have been converted to a 
> MAPI-readable copy in the EDB file.  Only new messages with 
> internet-formatted content which had not yet been opened by a MAPI 
> client would have been in the STM and not in the EDB as well.
> 
> Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 May 2002 14:28
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: STM Question
> > 
> > 
> > Not that I can see. As soon as we were back lots of mail that was 
> > being held flooded in. I did have the "up-to-date" edb file, al be 
> > it somewhat corrupt..:-)What could have been lost, as some of my 
> > other stm files are about a Gig or so? They opened attachments and 
> > all seemed to be there.
> > 
> > Tks
> > 
> > Sander
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 May 2002 03:22
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: STM Question
> > 
> > 
> > Did you lose any mail?
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:52 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: STM Question
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you Jeffrey!!
> > 
> > It repaired some corruption in the tables and created a new stm 
> > file. Whenever you are in Cape Town, the first couple of beers are 
> > on my tap!
> > 
> > Tks
> > 
> > Sander
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeffrey A. Beckham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 May 2002 10:34
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: STM Question
> > 
> > 
> > Eseutil /p "databasename.edb" /createstm
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Posted At: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:06 AM
> > Posted To: Exchange Discussion List
> > Conversation: STM Question
> > Subject: STM Question
> > 
> > 
> > Morning Admins
> > 
> > I have appear to have lost (gone, no trace) a stm file for one of my

> > Mailbox Stores. Needless to say, the Mailbox store does not mount, 
> > nor can I restore my backup bkf file as I get an error: Information 
> > Store
> > (2264) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -1811.

> > I searched on -1811 but I do not appear to see anything on the 
> > Technet site that helps me on from here. Can one creatre a blank stm

> > file? I tried it but no joy.
> > 
> > Has anybody got any suggestions, apart from calling PPS, which I 
> > will do if I can't get this resolved soon.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Sander
> > 
> > 
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