Exchange Store Fragmentation

In a previous post we spoke about increasing the size of an SBS Exchange mail store with a registy change.  The problem with an Exchange mail store is that once it reaches its maximum size, even if data is removed from it the store cannot shrink back down again without manual intervention.  If a store has reached the 75GB limit, and data has been removed to free up space, it is highly recommended that an offline defragmentation is performed in order to restore some performance to the Exchange system.  A common reason to perform an offline defrag is when a large number of users have been removed from the system.  Follow the instructions in the following Exchange support link.  There are other tools which can perform a similar function without using the command line, such as Perfect Disk.

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