It reclaims whitespace just fine.
It doesn't RELEASE whitespace. :-)
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Orlebeck, Geoffrey
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:55 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
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Yes. Poor (incorrect) phrasing on my part.
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:19 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange
Yup. Old memory coming back to me on the whitespace gets reused issue.
And checking the value gets tedious too...
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2013/08/20/how-to-check-database-white-space-in-exchange/
move to a new DB sounds right.
Cal
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From:
Remember Exchange doesn't reclaim whitespace on the underlying disk. If you
have a 100GB database file (MBD1), move 50GB to another database file (MBD2),
the original (MBD1) will not shrink on the disk. It just won't claim anymore
disk space until it's utilized all the available whitespace
A client that I have managed for years - on SBS2011 - I had created a couple of
extra databases for Exchange that I would move old accounts to in order to try
and reduce the size of the main database, speed things up, etc. These added
databases are on different drives as well if that will
You probably just need to clear the old move request from the original move.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351276%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx?f=255=-2147217396
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Calvin
Excellent! that works! Since it stays in replication mode until the move
request has been cleared - I expect that means that the space on the original
database never gets cleared either until the clear of the move request occurs???
I so hope that brings back a lot more space!
Thanks Jim!
Nope, you won't get back the space unless you do one of two things. Create a
new mailbox database and move the active mailboxes to it. The resulting
database will be smaller. Or you run an offline defrag of the existing
database. That will get back the whitespace in it.
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And I wouldn't do the offline defrag, they scare me. Do the move option.
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:49 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL ability
Nope, you won't get
