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The Store will keep getting bigger until you carry out an offline defrage, ESEUTIL /D. The online defragmentation in Exchange 5.5 only shuffles the white space in the dbases around, to regain space your only option is an offline defrag.
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The Store will keep getting bigger until you carry out an offline defrage, ESEUTIL /D. The online defragmentation in Exchange 5.5 only shuffles the white space in the dbases around, to regain space your only option is an offline defrag.

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Exchange will reuse the cleared up space before it will increase the size of the database. This space will become availiable AFTER the Online maintenance runs.<br />

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Exchange will reuse the cleared up space before it will increase the size of the database. This space will become availiable AFTER the Online maintenance runs.


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We have an information store that takes up most of the HDD space. After a little digging we found a few dead mailboxes and managed to clear up a lot of space. <br />
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I don't want to defrag the IS yet, have a lot of other things to do instead. Will exchange use this cleared up space for new mail or will the store just keep getting bigger<br />
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We have an information store that takes up most of the HDD space. After a little digging we found a few dead mailboxes and managed to clear up a lot of space. 

I don't want to defrag the IS yet, have a lot of other things to do instead. Will exchange use this cleared up space for new mail or will the store just keep getting bigger



Information store space taken up on Exchange 5.5

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.