You should use Mailbox Manager. If users don't set outlook Options/Other Empty the Deleted Items Fold upon Exiting your Private IS will fill up with deleted items.
Mailbox Manager is in SP4 ENG\server\support\mbmngr\setup\i386. Works a treat here. Once you've sorted out where all that IS space is going, you need to set deleted items retention on: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq_appxb.htm Cheers, Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 September 2002 14:21 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Revisiting offline defrag question > > > I dont know what mailbox manager is so I guess Im not using > it, also I dont > have any deleted items retension set up. > > RGDS > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:11 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Revisiting offline defrag question > > > The 1221 report on your ISPRIV is what counts, as that's > the amount of whitespace in the database. > > Are you running Mailbox Manager on the server? > > We use it to purge old "Deleted Items" and "Journal" entries, > and it helps a lot. Configuring Outlook / office not to > journal helps too, if you don't need it. > > What sort of deleted item retention period do you have? > > Cheers, > > Phil > > --------------------------------------------- > Phil Randal > Network Engineer > Herefordshire Council > Hereford, UK > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tener, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 13 September 2002 14:05 > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Revisiting offline defrag question > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I would like to ask everyone's suggestions, I > > asked about > > offline defrag a couple days ago and many of you were very > > helpful. Thanks > > for all your great information. I have exchange 5.5 sp4 > > running on windows > > nt srv sp6a and my secondary partition where the exchange > database is > > located is approximately 12.9gig in total size. I have 1.98 > > gigs of space > > left on this drive and it is diminishing very quickly about > > 200mb a week. > > The priv.edb file is 8,791,048 in size and the pub.edb is > > 946,184 in size. > > Recently I have archived alot of emails from peoples > > mailboxes, a few gigs > > at least. Also in the past other people have left our > > company and I deleted > > their mailboxes which were pretty big usually close to 1 gig > > in size. Since > > I have done alot of deleting I haven't really noticed any > > space on this > > secondary partition freed up. So last night I archived about > > 1.5gigs of > > email and came in today and noticed that I haven't gained any > > space back on > > this partition. In the event viewer it shows this about my > > online defrag > > report. > > > > The database has 53 megabytes of free space after online > > defragment has > > terminated event 1221. > > > > Event 1207: cleanup of items past retention date for Item > Recovery is > > complete > > Start: 20843 items; 445797 Kbytes > > end: 20742 items; 445487 Kbytes > > > > From the info above would anyone consider doing an offline > > defragment of the > > exchange database? I have never done this before and would > like your > > suggestions, thanks very much for your time. > > > > RGDS > > Rich > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
