Re: Exchange limit - difficulty reducing

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Tom,

Thanks for the response.  It's obviously right on.

An update: The offline defrag saved enough bytes to remount the store and perform online maintenance (in process). I disabled MTA stacks, SMTP, and POP3 for this one.

Exchange 2003 was already on the way. Just trying to keep this one running until the install. Got my fingers crossed.

Marc

Tom Felts wrote: 
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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