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Exchange Server 2007

Hi Experts

Thanks in advance.

I am running out of space on my exchange server partition. I am running exchange 2007.

When i delete users and mail there is a 14 day retention on those mailboxes / users. Can get it to purge all this information and get rid it it before 14 days?

Do i just change the retention period?

Also can i do anything to the database to clean it up and reduce the size?

Thanks

ltsweb

Do you have log files taking up space? They are usually removed if you are running a backup; however they are sometimes not. Do not delete them but rather move them and keep the E00 files!

As far as shrinking the edb, you can only do that by running an eseutil /d for defrag.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192185

It goes without saying you need to do a full backup. Also, you need at least 110 % free to allow the temp file to be created. That may be a problem with your space limits. You can run the defrag from you local pc or another drive.

Regards

crossfireit

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Thanks for the speedy reply.

My log files are on another drive. they are circular and only taking up 10GB.

Do you have any idea how long an eseutil /d will take on a 100gb DB?

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