Just make sure you have at least 18+Gb of free space, on the server or on a temp drive somewhere. Mark Fugatt MCSE, MCT, Microsoft Exchange MVP Pentech Office Solutions Inc Rochester, NY Tel: 585 586 3890 Cell: 585 576 4750 http://www.4mcts.com http://www.exchangetrainer.com -----Original Message----- From: Rick Sambhi [mailto:rsambhi@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:10 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Off line Defrag. http://www.MSExchange.org/ We have an Exchange 2000 standard edition running on Windows 2000. Yesterday the mailbox store reached it 16GB limit. I increase it temporarily using the registry fix I found on www.microsoft.com. I have gotten users to clean up their mailbox and now I need to do an off line defrag. I spoke with the guy who set this box up over 2 years ago and he said that he has never done an off-line defrag before. So this will be the first time running it on this server. Is there anything I need to be concerned with running off line defrag on this exchange for the first time. I have read up on it and it seems simple enough, I will do a complete backup of the exchange before defrag, and I setup test box to test this on first. Is there anything I should be aware of? Thanks for your help. Rick ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: World of Windows Networking: http://www.windowsnetworking.com Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: mark@xxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist