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Hello,<br />
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Check your retention policy and run a backup. These are the two things that can keep mail and mailboxes in your database after you deleted them.<br />
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Thanks and Regards,
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Hello,

Check your retention policy and run a backup. These are the two things that can keep mail and mailboxes in your database after you deleted them.



Thanks and Regards,

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no retention policy is applied for each mailbox, and I have backups run each night.
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no retention policy is applied for each mailbox, and I have backups run each night.

IT Director

Rick Ranck

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Exchange 2016 cu3. &nbsp;<br />
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In the past I was able to delete mail/mailboxes and it would create white space within my database. &nbsp;<br />
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I would check my white space with the follow power shell command. &nbsp;<br />
Get-MailboxDatabase &quot;datebasename&quot; -Status | fl Name,AvailableNewMailboxSp<wbr />ace<br />
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Recently when deleted about 10GB of mailboxes the white space never showed up and my database continues to grow.<br />
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The Mailbox database limits are set to 0 for keep deleted items and mailboxes. &nbsp;Also, the default retention setting are set for each mailbox. &nbsp;<br />
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Does anyone know what else I can check or why my whitespace isn't freeing up?
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Exchange 2016 cu3.  

In the past I was able to delete mail/mailboxes and it would create white space within my database.  

I would check my white space with the follow power shell command.  
Get-MailboxDatabase "datebasename" -Status | fl Name,AvailableNewMailboxSpace

Recently when deleted about 10GB of mailboxes the white space never showed up and my database continues to grow.

The Mailbox database limits are set to 0 for keep deleted items and mailboxes.  Also, the default retention setting are set for each mailbox.  

Does anyone know what else I can check or why my whitespace isn't freeing up?

Exchange 2016 Whitespace

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.