RE: Eseutil

[Lefkovics, William]

Title: Message

Nightly.  By default.    Reading the event logs each morning (yes, I do) will reveal any issues.   -----Original Message----- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Eseutil There's one caveat I'd add to this, and that is...   Make sure your online defrag is running to completion each day (or at least once a week).   If you're going to reclaim whitespace, you might as well make sure that the process is working.  I let the online maintenance run all weekend if it wants to :-)   Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -----Original Message----- From: Scott Schnoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 October 2001 18:51 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Eseutil Um, that's what I said (except for the part about rebooting servers weekly).  Did you not read me post in its entirety?  Let me hit the highlights <g>: Exchange's online defragmentation is great for defragmenting and reclaiming white space; however, this process does not reduce the size of the database file.   If you aren't move large amounts of data out of your databases, and you aren't running into any storage limitations (e.g., because you are running Standard or because you're running out of disk space), then running ESEUTIL won't provide much, if any, benefits.   For the large majority of Exchange orgs, it probably won't be a regular maintenance tool.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Lefkovics, William To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:26 AM Subject: RE: Eseutil Sure.  Some people reboot their servers weekly, too.   For the average deployment, offline defragging using eseutil as a regular maintenance tool remains a complete waste of time and resources.(Read: reclamation of whitespace that will be reused anyway)   William   <snip> List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm