Exchange 5.5 does have a mailbox management component that can be used to auto-empty deleted items folders and other folders. You can reduce deleted item retention and ask people to move stuff into the Public store or into PST files (just have them do a search of anything over 5MB and remove those attachments - that's the biggest bang for the buck).
If your store is already over the limit, you're a bit screwed. If you have an eval copy of the enterprise version, you could install it on a test server, load up the store, delete a bunch of junk, then move the data back to the other system. But what is the cost of the mail server being down compared to the enterprise license? If the Ent license costs more than the downtime, leave it off and go home. :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fretz Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:07 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Private Store size problems. Good points. I'm doing a full-court press to get us upgraded to Exchange 2000 Enterprise at the same time. As far as the temp drive goes, it is a 36GB 15k rpm drive, separate from the main storage volume. I'm averaging around 9 GB / hour, so I'm not far from the eseutil's theoretical maximum of 10 GB / hour. I guess I should be happy. My real question should have been this: What do you do when an offline defrag won't get Priv.edb filesize small enough to restart the Information Store? Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax: 972.772.7510 -----Original Message----- From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:04 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Private Store size problems. 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
