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Unless you dismount the mailbox store and run an &quot;offline defrag&quot;, than Exchange just marks the database that has been cleaned up as &quot;white space&quot;. That is why the database remains the same size.
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Unless you dismount the mailbox store and run an "offline defrag", than Exchange just marks the database that has been cleaned up as "white space". That is why the database remains the same size.

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The last time I check it won't let you defrag unless the DB is dismounted so answer your question the DB is dismounted but nothing gain on the DB size.
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The last time I check it won't let you defrag unless the DB is dismounted so answer your question the DB is dismounted but nothing gain on the DB size.

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I have the retention set to 7 days so I set it to 0, run the defrag again and no reductionon DB. Should I wait so auto maintenance wil do it thing and run defrag?
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I have the retention set to 7 days so I set it to 0, run the defrag again and no reductionon DB. Should I wait so auto maintenance wil do it thing and run defrag?

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To all,<br />
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I have an exchange 2003 database that we keep trying to defrag, it goes through with no errors, but the size won't go down the db is showing 26gb but if you add up the mailboxes its only 11gb now after cleaning some up, any ideas?<br />
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Thanks!!
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To all,

I have an exchange 2003 database that we keep trying to defrag, it goes through with no errors, but the size won't go down the db is showing 26gb but if you add up the mailboxes its only 11gb now after cleaning some up, any ideas?

Thanks!!

DB won't go down even after defrag

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