When it does the maintanance it basically defrags the database. If the process takes longer then one hour it stops and the day after continues from where it left. To manually defrag the dataabse use the ESEUTIL. It can be found in ...../exchsrvr/bin/eseutil.exe Just type it and you get the help. -----Original Message----- From: Rosser, Richard (Exchange) [mailto:richard.rosser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:14 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange 2000 Defrag http://www.MSExchange.org/ - Re-Vamped! Team, I realize Exchange performs its own maintenance nightly, or whichever schedule you place it on. First: What exactly does this do? Second: How do you defrag your databases? Is this done automatically? THANKS!!! ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: robert@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')