Getting rid of white space from priv.edb and pub.edb

[brah]

Hello,

Anyone have a good way of getting rid of this extra space without having to build a whole new server to run the program on and without running the program on the live machine.

Thanks

 

[neh]

I usually do maintenance on my Exchange Servers at a time when I have the lowest usage. Make sure you have a good backup. Run eseutil to defrag. I would also suggest running isinteg -fix afterwards if it's been a long time since your last defrag.

ESEUTIL /d /ds /tj:\tempdfrg.edb
ESEUTIL /d /ispub /tj:\tempdfrg.edb
ESEUTIL /d /ispriv /tj:\tempdfrg.edb

j:\ being the drive you want your defragmentation to take place on. It doesn't have to be on the same drive as the production databases, or even the same server.

ISINTEG -fix -pub -TEST ALLTESTS (enter y when prompted)

I've done this successfully for years.