Hi Michael,

 

Thanks for your reply. Good question - I am considering a defrag because users mailboxes grew dramatically and now they are deleting unnecessary items and relocating attachments to the file server. A dozen GB's or more will be removed.

 

If we do move to a different storage group, will any user mailbox settings or delegate permissions be lost?

 

...D
 

On 11/15/07, Michael B. Smith <swngdnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The first question I would ask is: why do you want to do a defragment?

 

Will you recover more than 30% of storage space? Have you been advised to by PSS?

 

If not, then I wouldn't bother. Taking Exchange offline to do a defrag, without a good reason, is just a waste of time and processor cycles.

 

Besides which, given sufficient disk space, doing a move-mailbox to a new storage group is MUCH less intrusive.

 

From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Danny
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:10 PM
To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ExchangeList] Exchange offline defrag timeframe

 

Any idea how long and how much disk space I will need to offline defrag the following platform?

 

Server: Xeon 3.6Ghz, 4GB RAM, RAID 5 on 4 15K RPM SAS drives

Exchange Server 2003 SP2
Primary Storage Group = 90GB
Secondary Storage Group = 15GB

 

Thanks.

 

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