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MS Exchange 5.5 Mailboxes Migration

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by rcnv

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I have a Exchange 5.5 sp4 server running my company's email. It resides on a 4gb NTFS partition but I am running out of space because my mailboxes are getting bigger. I created a 30GB partition on the same drive, since the HD containing exchange is 34GB. I need to know how do I setup exchange so the user's mailbox data will be stored in this new partition "D". Thank you!

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by fenaikh

Hi
there are many dirty pages which are written to the information store databases on the disk which make the is database too lareg.I would do an offline defragmantition be fore moving the IS database.pls read these article
and related articles linked on them.

Overview of Exchange Server Database Architecture and Database Engine
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q271/9/87.ASP

Determining Database Free Space with Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 1 and Later
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q195/9/14.ASP

How to Recover Hard Disk Space from Exchange Server Databases
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/0/35.ASP

Free Disk Space Requirements for Eseutil.exe
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q183/8/88.ASP

Information Store Shuts Down; Database at Maximum Size
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q185/4/57.ASP
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Forklifting All Users to a New Server
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q199/9/54.ASP

Microsoft Exchange Move Server Wizard
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/55/MoveServer.asp

Moving Mailboxes
http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/en/55/help/documents/server/XGS05012.HTM

Alternatives to Using MOVE MAILBOX in the Administrator program
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q278/7/36.ASP

How to Use the Mailbox Migration Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q177/7/76.ASPFor More Information there is a link in bottom of this page to related Articles

by nickyis

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RUN ANY DEFRAG UTILITYS ETC TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
JUST RUN THE MICROSOFT EXCHANGE PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZER. YOU CAN SPECIFY WHERE THE PRIV.EDB DATABASE WILL RESIDE..

by jabulani

They are both correct in their own way. Just because you have lots of space doesn't mean you have to waste it.

So, run the defrag utility first to reduce the size of the database. I did this and reduced the size of my Priv.edb from 22Gb to 12Gb. Thans a lot of disk space and backup time saved!

Having done the defrag, run the performance optimizer and rearrange your exchange databased and log files as required.

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