Re: Exchange limit - difficulty reducing

See http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2004/03/exchange_standa.html


The deleted items went into the system cleanup folders...thus growing your
database.

You have 2 options...upgrade to enterprise, or exchange 2003 SP2.....

Drop the dime and call PSS...they deal with this all the time.


"Marc Gordon" <marc.gordon@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Od%23Xov$FGHA.312@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have a client with Exchange 2K that hit the 16G limit.
>
> I applied the temporary 1G size extension, remounted the db, and started
> deleting major amounts of email with attachments. The db size shot up
> to 17G and shut down while I was doing that.
>
> I didn't get to run online maintenance but offline defrag is running as
> I write.
>
> So my questions are:
> What are the options if the size doesn't come down enough to restart?
>
> What could have caused the sudden 1G jump? It's unlikely (maybe
> impossible) that 1G of mail arrived.
>
> Thanks in advance.


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