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Exchange 2003 Mailbox reaches its 16GB limit and dismounts

My SBS 2003 Exchange server has reached its 16GB limit and dismounted.

I have appllied SP2 and created two Database Size Limit in GB registry keys to increase the capacity to 50GB. For some reason I am NOT recieving the Event ID 1216 telling me that the storage limit has increase after I restart the info store service.

I have completed an offline defrag of the EDBs too and the server working for a while but then dismounted saying it has run out of space.

Any ideas on why I cant increase the limit? thanks
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The service pack 2 for Exchange is not applied properly, otherwise you should be dismounted when the size reaches 18GB instead of 16GB.  Consequently changing registry key will not work.

Check the event logs to find out why SP2 didn't get applied properly, in any case you will need to re-apply it.
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Double check the registry keys
Try to restart the whole server


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Thanks...Is it safe to uninstall SP2 from add\remove and reapply it?
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You can just reinstall it over the top - Exchange SP2 is not the same as Windows SP2
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SP2 was applied for windows but I needed to apply SP2 for exchange in order to increase the storage...thanks worked a treat!