Re: Exchange maintenance after loading/deleting messages.

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Larry Struckmeyer [SBS-MVP] wrote:
Roveer, I apologize. A very similar question was answered recently, but I checked your previous posts and did not find one from you. I hope you are not too put out, and I promise never to do that again without double checking the source.

Now, I stand by my comment. Leave it alone unless you *really* really* need the space. Shrinking it will just clear out the white space, and then it will have to grow again.


Larry,

No offense taken. I do get a bit verbose in my posts and at times do ask very similar questions. I'm just trying to make sure that after all the claims I've made about why we should be using a server and exchange that some small insignificant item that I overlooked doesn't come back to bite me. I often come off as a bit intense, especially when I'm hunting technology related knowledge.

All that being said, I want to thank everyone on this group for providing such good information and sharing their experiences. I can tell you that I've learned volumes in the past months and feel very comfortable in the decision I've made to go to SBS. The list of features that we are going to use right from the start is impressive and will have a positive impact in our office. I'm just glad I had such a good resource to come to and that so many of you are willing to take the time to post and reply to our posts to help out. After all many of you make a living doing this and here you are helping for free. Pro Bono. My thanks.

Now, I have read up on the maintenance, and I took the advice from the first reply and used the event viewer to inspect exactly what the nightly maintenance was doing. I see that when the messages & mailboxes hit their retention limits they will be removed. This gives me a good feeling that exchange is doing it's thing. This was a very beneficial exercise. Oh, I see I've gotten verbose again. Just my thing I guess.

Larry, we're all good.

Roveer
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