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Exchange Database Size

I am trying to make some room on a server drive, I have connected a sinology ISCSI box and all new mail accounts go to that, I've also moved some existing users to this drive which should have freeded up about 15GB of disk space but the size of the database hasn't changed. I have left it for a couple of weeks in case it returned the space after it had done some house keeping.

Is there something else I should be doing?

Many thanks

Will Szymkowski

15GB of disk space but the size of the database hasn't changed.

This is by design. Exchange databases will continue to grow so even after moving the mailboxes to another database or server the database actual size (showen in windows) does not change.

There is whitespace that is reclaimed and Exchange will use this space before the disk size increases however the actual size of the database will not decrease. Even if you were to move ALL mailboxes out of a database the size would remain the same.

This is by design.

Will.

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Thanks Will

This works for us as the drive is only used for mailbox's so moving a few out will effectively free up space for the ones left.

Last two things:

How long is default retention period and can it be changed?

Can you view how much white space there is?

Many thanks

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