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Free up disk space on Exchange 2010
I need to free up disk space on my exchange 2010 server. I have circular logging enable. I have had users delete emails and archive older emails. Can someone please explain to me why deleting and archiving is not freeing up disk space? I also need a solution ASAP, my disk space is getting very low.
Space won't be freed up until the mailbox / database retention period has passed. If you need to reduce the retention period, please have a read of the following link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee364752(v=exchg.150).aspx
If you lower the settings to 0, you won't be able to recover any deleted items afterwards.
Restart the Information Store Service after making the changes to force the settings into play.
This will enable you to increase the white space in the database, but you won't be able to reclaim disk space without an Offline Defrag or if you create a new database and move ALL existing mailboxes to that new database, which will require more disk space.
Short answer is you need to increase the disk space somehow. Can you move the databases to another local drive?
Alan
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee364752(v=exchg.150).aspx
If you lower the settings to 0, you won't be able to recover any deleted items afterwards.
Restart the Information Store Service after making the changes to force the settings into play.
This will enable you to increase the white space in the database, but you won't be able to reclaim disk space without an Offline Defrag or if you create a new database and move ALL existing mailboxes to that new database, which will require more disk space.
Short answer is you need to increase the disk space somehow. Can you move the databases to another local drive?
Alan
There are several ways to clean up space on the disc of your server like this ones:
Clean Installation Logs
Claim Disk space from mail database (see post number 4)
Clean up transaction logs
Hope this helps you.
Clean Installation Logs
Claim Disk space from mail database (see post number 4)
Clean up transaction logs
Hope this helps you.
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It sounds like this is one server with all roles. Lots of great suggestions already posted here. But another thing to check is if you have IIS logging enabled. That can slowly chew up space with everything EWS connection. Jump into IIS, check the Default Website >> Logging. Click the Disable link in the Action Pane.
More info
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754631(v=ws.10).aspx
If not needed you can delete the contents of
%systemdrive%\inetpub\logs
More info
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754631(v=ws.10).aspx
If not needed you can delete the contents of
%systemdrive%\inetpub\logs
Simply deleting and archiving emails will not free up space. Depending on your server setup deleted e-mail may be kept for compliance, and archives may be saving to the server disk as well.
I would suggest taking a look at the policies on your exchange box on how these operations are handled. Usually archiving should be saved to either the Users machine, an alternate file server, or USB drive etc... Make sure the archived mail is not being saved back to the server with the space issue.
You should also compact your data file for each user, this should be done on each users PC. Here are instructions:
Compacting Outlook Data Files
Try some of these steps and let me know if it helps at all..