I'd continue to focus on purchasing the Enterprise version.  What's the cost
of yo0ur labor in doing the offline defrag?  What's the cost to the company
in the system downtime for you to do the defrag?  What's the cost to the
company of the system downtime if you do hit the 16GB limit?  Then compare
that to the cost of Enterprise Edition.  

You'd best delete things from the store while it is up and right before you
do the offline defrag.  You can also reduce the DIR time period so things get
permanently deleted sooner.  

Speeding up offline defragmentation:  This is a FAQ - the best you can do is
put things on fast storage, make the temp drive a separate spindle from the
live store.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:53 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Private Store size problems.
> 
> 
> My company has been reluctant to upgrade our exchange 5.5 
> standard server to
> 5.5 enterprise and because of this, I bump up against the 16 
> GB limit about
> every 20 days.  Is there any way to access the Private store 
> to prune (or
> even delete) oversize mailboxes while the store is offline?  
> Also, is there
> any way to speed up eseutil while it's doing an offline 
> defragmentation?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric Fretz
> 
> L-3 Communications
> ComCept Division
> 2800 Discovery Blvd.
> Rockwall, TX 75032
> tel:   972.772.7501
> fax:  972.772.7510
> 
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