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The solution required a certain amount of additional drive space. &nbsp;I needed to move the edb file to a larger partition and then was able to use the solution.
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The solution required a certain amount of additional drive space.  I needed to move the edb file to a larger partition and then was able to use the solution.

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Hello - We made some company wide changes and as a result, our Exchange use has decreased as well as the .edb size. &nbsp;At least I thought the .edb size should be smaller. &nbsp;We were pushing about 20GB and now when all individual mailbox sizes are added up it should only be about 1.5gb. &nbsp;But the priv.edb is still showing 20GB. &nbsp; The bBackup software also thinks it's 20GB too. &nbsp;Is there a way to compress the priv.edb file to reflect it's true size. Thanks in advance.
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Hello - We made some company wide changes and as a result, our Exchange use has decreased as well as the .edb size.  At least I thought the .edb size should be smaller.  We were pushing about 20GB and now when all individual mailbox sizes are added up it should only be about 1.5gb.  But the priv.edb is still showing 20GB.   The bBackup software also thinks it's 20GB too.  Is there a way to compress the priv.edb file to reflect it's true size. Thanks in advance.

Exchange 2003 SP2 - Can I compress

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.

Exchange

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.