Diskeeper and exchange

[bluetech05]

I have the trial software of it installed and I'm wanting to defrag my drives tonight. Is there anything i should due since I have exchange on this server as well? I don't want to screw up our system. We have one drive for OS and Exchange and one just for data. Let me know!

 

[itsp1965]

You will not be able to defrag the partition/disk where your exchange data store resides because the files are open and locked by exchange (this is true of every application with a database).
As for the system partition and your data partition it would be a good idea to defragment your drives. Here are some points;

- Make sure all users are off the system
- Make sure there are no background processes that are tying up the disk while you are performing your defrag
- As I have indicated above, shutdown any running applications that don't need to be opened during the defrag process
- You may want to tempoarily disable on-line virus scanning since it will interfere

Bare in mind that if you let the trial software expire you will receive error messages. Hope this helps.

 

[58sniper]

You can exclude the folders in Exchange from being defragged in Diskeeper.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[bluetech05]

I looked around for the folder exclusions and went into program files and clicked on exchange. Will that be the only file I should exclude.

 

[58sniper]

if you're excluding \program files\exchsrvr, you should be fine, ASSUMING that TLs and/or databases haven't been moved elsewhere.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt