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by cwevenson

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How would I be able to reduce the size of the exchange store. On a week to week basis the store grows by 50 MB. We are limited for space at present and need some means to reduce space.

Also, Echange has been generating 5 MB text files of the data it has stored. Generally I eliminate them weekly. Is there a way that Exchange will eliminate them automatically?

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by xonex

I'm by no means an 'expert' on Exchange, but have you tried placing quotas on user mailboxes? I used to work for a company that required each user to have no more than 100MB in their mailbox. If they exceeded the limit, they would be warned, and then their mailbox would be frozen until they deleted some mail.
Once you limit the mailbox space a user can take up, you should defrag the message store. With 5.5 you would use eseutil.. i.e. ESEUTIL /D /ISPRIV
That will compact the message store considerably.
As for the text files... Do you have message tracking enabled? If so, disable it. If the text files look like logs, you can enable circular logging, which will allow Exchange to overwrite old logs once it reaches a space limit you specify.

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