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Looks for event ID 1221 in the Application event log around 1am. This will tell you how much whitespace is in the database. If it reports a very small number (a couple of mb) then it isn't worth doing anything more with the database.<br />
Unless you are going to gain 1gb or more of database space I don't think it is worth the hassle of doing an offline defrag personally. <br />
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Database files of those sizes are nothing - Exchange can handle up to 16gb on standard edition and technically unlimited on Enterprise. <br />
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Simon.
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Looks for event ID 1221 in the Application event log around 1am. This will tell you how much whitespace is in the database. If it reports a very small number (a couple of mb) then it isn't worth doing anything more with the database.
Unless you are going to gain 1gb or more of database space I don't think it is worth the hassle of doing an offline defrag personally.

Database files of those sizes are nothing - Exchange can handle up to 16gb on standard edition and technically unlimited on Enterprise.

Simon.

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Can anyone tell me how to reduce the size of a stm file apart from eseutil /d ?<br />
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We backup our data ofsite and although we have clearned our mailboxes so the priv1.edb is down to 2GB after defrag, the stm file is still 2.6GB (reduced from 3.2GB after defrag) &nbsp;We have this on &nbsp;couple of sites and it would be great to reduce the size of the stm files.<br />
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Can someone help? &nbsp;Are there any outher switches I can use to compress the files?<br />
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Thanks
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Can anyone tell me how to reduce the size of a stm file apart from eseutil /d ?

We backup our data ofsite and although we have clearned our mailboxes so the priv1.edb is down to 2GB after defrag, the stm file is still 2.6GB (reduced from 3.2GB after defrag)  We have this on  couple of sites and it would be great to reduce the size of the stm files.

Can someone help?  Are there any outher switches I can use to compress the files?

Thanks

priv1.stm size

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