I have done this many times and it works great! The dir will maintain the GAL . You can browse the Event Logs and see how well Exchange fixes itself.
Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petschow, Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: RE: cleaning a mailbox > That sounds like a good idea. Do I need to do anything after it creates the > new priv.edb to sync up the accounts. > > Jeff > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:39 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: cleaning a mailbox > > > > > > You could literally delete the priv.edb file. > > That will delete all the data, and when you restart Exch, it > > will create a > > new empty one. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Petschow, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 7:34 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: cleaning a mailbox > > > > > > I have an exchange 5.5 server that is only used by students that take > > training classes in Outlook. After each semester I want to > > delete everything > > in the mailboxes. I have been using mailbox manager but I > > have not found out > > how to remove future appointments from the calendar. Also > > meeting requests > > sometimes do not get deleted. Is there some way to completely remove > > everything. There are 300 mailboxes on this server. > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff Petschow > > College of DuPage > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > 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]