Raxco's perfectdisk is tremendous. It will defrag the exchange databases by linking it into the exchange utilities..in effect a gui for them. I use it weekly and have had no trouble with it at all. S -----Original Message----- From: Nick F [mailto:nfitzpatrick@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:43 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Do Diskeeper 9 and Exchange 2003 Play nice? http://www.MSExchange.org/ I am familiar with eseutil and isinteg however Microsoft strongly recommends against using the built-in defrag utilities as they can (and I have seen it totally screw up an edb) damage the edb. I've seen messages damaged and attachments blown into oblivion - there's NO way I would ever use the utility on a functional/ing edb.1 Taking the db offline for defraging would just be too inconvenient - I was thinking that it would be nice to use the cheesily named "set-it-and-forget-it" function of Diskeeper. The first time I saw the defrag utility in Windows 2000 all I could think was: "Gee, now this looks familiar..." :-) Thanks guys. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSEXchange.org Discussion List as: ExchangeMailingList@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx The correct technical term for haggis stalking is "havering".