Exchange 2010 SP3 - Mailbox deletion
EE,
I'm a bit confused about the deletion of Mailboxes from the Server and the purge of the mailboxes from "Disconnected Mailbox".
I ran the following to remove the mailboxes from "Disconnected Mailbox:
-Deleted Mailbox
-To remove from Disconnect Mailbox:
Remove-StoreMailbox –database “DB2” –identity “DisplayName” –MailboxState Disabled
-What I thought was the final command to complete the process:
Get-MailboxDatabase | Clean-MailboxDatabase
Now after the last command was applied, I check the free space on the drive that is hosting the Mailstore and I see no increase in space...????
Is there something I missing?
I'm a bit confused about the deletion of Mailboxes from the Server and the purge of the mailboxes from "Disconnected Mailbox".
I ran the following to remove the mailboxes from "Disconnected Mailbox:
-Deleted Mailbox
-To remove from Disconnect Mailbox:
Remove-StoreMailbox –database “DB2” –identity “DisplayName” –MailboxState Disabled
-What I thought was the final command to complete the process:
Get-MailboxDatabase | Clean-MailboxDatabase
Now after the last command was applied, I check the free space on the drive that is hosting the Mailstore and I see no increase in space...????
Is there something I missing?
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Only issue is the client only has one Mail DB.
You cannot free up physical drive space by deleting the mailboxes. You got to create a new empty DB and move the mailboxes.
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So what would be the steps if I already performed deletion of the mailboxes using the steps above? They've already been purged from the server.
Only issue is the client only has one Mail DB.
Exchange Standard lets you have up to 5 mailboxes databases. Just spin up another database. Then move the users as Simon pointed out.
ASKER
What if I've already deleted the mailboxes and purged them via powers hell?
So you have purged all mailboxes in the database? Are there any valid mailboxes still remaining? If so, move those. If you have purged everything then you can just remove the database.
ASKER
There is huge free space issue in this company. There is pretty much no additional space on the drives that the server is installed on.
I am confused. Do you have a second database?
ASKER
Yes. Apparently one for the mailboxes with no archiving and public folders.
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You should either perform offline defragmentation or move the mailboxes over to a new database to retrieve the disk space.
More info on offline defragmentation process in below link
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/08/23/offline-defrag-and-dag-databases_2c00_-oh-my_2100_.aspx