Hi When we reached near 16Gb and exchange was still running, I quickly installed a second server and moved some mailboxes. Then applied a different policy and forced users to clean up their mailboxes. After that new policy, we were back to 12Gb. I then had time to remove the second server and convinced management to switch to the enterprise edition. Gabrie > -----Original Message----- > From: ikm7176 [mailto:ikm7176@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 6:58 PM > To: [ExchangeList] > Subject: [exchangelist] Urgent!! exchange 2000 standard > exceeded 16 GB limit > > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > hi, > > We are running exchange 2000 standard version with all sp3 > and post sp3 patch, this morning it reached the 16 GB limit. > since then we are unable to mount the database. searched the > KB articles. Finally we decided to run the eseutil utility > for offline defragmentation and then move some mailboxes to > another server. > > > i am curious to know, how much time it will take for offline > defragmentation. its almost 5 hrs for me and its only 60% completed. > > i am worried if this works ? All the log files and .edb files > are untouched. Any other solutions ? > > Any help would be highly appreciated. thanks !! > > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------ > >