Yes, I'd do all of those things...at the same time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ely, Don [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 5:11 PM
> To:   MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject:      RE: Compacting
> 
> Damn it you guys!  I leave for a couple of hours and you start preaching
> about defrags and BLB's...
> 
> Well I have a couple of questions since I are a beginner...
> 
> Can I run Eseutil and my BLB process at the same time?  What time should I
> start this process?  As soon as it is complete should I run ISINTEG?  What
> you you experts think?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:07 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> 
> Here fishy fishy.
> 
> Fresh fish.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> 
> Ive been an eXch admin for almost 6 months now, so I think I know what I
> am
> doing.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:58 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Compacting
> 
> 
> O crap. Are you nutz?
> 
> You are trying to defend running ESEUTIL AND BLBs??
> 
> Do you have a death wish? That has never been done successfully. Not
> individually, nor collectively.
> 
> All hard core Exchange Admins who have been doing this for years have both
> of those items on the black list. We have gone round and round here for
> months on both issues.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:50 PM
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> 
> thats why I do BLB.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Balen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:40 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> 
> 
> Again, defragmentation happens daily when ese runs. I am assuming this
> person means don't compact the store. Running eseutil can be a dangerous
> thing. Running either of the utilities that will change the structure of
> the
> store, can be a dangerous thing and should only be done in extreme
> measures
> (like if the IS wont start and you don't have a decent-recent backup of
> the
> store, or if you have a huge priv.edb file are running out of diskspace
> and
> know that compacting would free up a lot of space an have cheap managers
> who
> wont spend money on either more disk space or another server to offload
> folks to). As you will see, many folks in here are weary (with good
> reason)
> about running eseutil against the store. About the only util people tend
> to
> run is isinteg just to check the integrity of the store. Even if it needs
> to
> be fixed, most folks will just build another server and move mailboxes off
> of the server with a store that may have a lot of errors or is too big for
> its own good. Bottom line again, is to only use eseutil as a last ditch
> effort or isinteg -fix if the store is not accessible.
> 
> FWIW - these are the reasons you keep impeccable backups of your stores
> and
> transaction logs - just like Wilford Brimley says check your blood sugar
> and
> check it often, exchange admins say check your backups and check them
> daily.
> Once you have a good base of backups, a couple weeks to a month, you will
> want to test and document your disaster recovery methods 1) to make sure
> it
> works and
> b) to get it down packed so you can do it in a minimal amount of time.
> Also,
> I recommend never letting your stores (mostly the priv.edb) get out of
> hand
> (getting too big) because it becomes harder to manage it (longer to back
> it
> up, longer to restore it, etc.) If it does get too big, either implement
> strict or more strict mailbox storage policies or simply build another
> exchange server and move users off of it - if it is e2k, of course,
> storage
> groups are a god send for thing like this.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at INTERNET
> 
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:10 PM
> To: Balen, Steve B - Raleigh, NC; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> at
> INTERNET
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> 
> Never?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:07 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Compacting
> 
> 
> DON'T DEFRAG!!!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Beckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 12:33 PM
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> 
> 2000, 5.5, all versions?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Lefkovics [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:33 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Compacting
> 
> Has it been a month already?
> 
> Since it is a bright relational database, it runs an online maintenance
> process nightly by default that defrags the contents of the databases. It
> takes care of itself.
> 
> William
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:19 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Compacting
> 
> 
> Friends and astute members of the exchange list. Please forgive such basic
> questions but I am new to exchange. (came from lotus notes) Since exchange
> is essentially a database, I would assume this database gets fragmented.
> Is
> there a tool that can be used to "unfragment"?
> 
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