mailbox size increazing

hi

i am using exchange 2010 onpremises i am runing out of disk space its consuming about 4 mb everyday

kindly how to reduce the size of mdb file.

regards

August 17th, 2015 8:38am

I'm guessing you mean it's consuming 4GB a day, not 4MB?  Anway, is it the size of the database(s) or log files that's the issue?  If it's the database, you can ask the users to delete email.  Other options would be fine tune SPAM filtering (if you have it) to decrease the amount of mail coming in,  move the database(s) to another partition or everyone's least favorite option  - defrag the database(s).  Defragging a database requires downtime.  Now, if the issue is log files and not the database, then are you getting successful backups of Exchange?  If not, that's probably your issue.
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August 17th, 2015 9:52am

Yes, please clarify if it is the mailbox database file (.edb) or the log files.

You could also implement Retention Tags to delete messages older than so many weeks or months depending on whatever policies govern your organization.

Of course, if size if really increasing by 4 GB a day, that option will not be enough.

August 17th, 2015 10:00am

Hi,

I suggest to refer to the following article for Troubleshooting Rapid Growth in Databases, if its consuming really about 4GB/day, not 4MB/day.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/18/troubleshooting-rapid-growth-in-databases-and-transaction-log-files-in-exchange-server-2007-and-2010.aspx

And similar thread for reference

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/55680191-0c11-4784-9a55-6a54e0ce3d78/exchange-2010-database-size-keep-getting-bigger

Best Regards.

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August 17th, 2015 10:48pm

I hope, you have received enough suggestions to resolve this issue.

A better way would be to checkout the mailbox statistics and see if one is growing at an unusual rate.  If you do have a large amount of white space, you should try to recover it by creating a new mailbox database and move all the mailboxes to it, and then delete the old database.

To make this task more easily, you may get help using this automated application (http://www.exchangemailboxtopst.org/) too that could be a nice alternative approach to PS command.

August 18th, 2015 3:37am

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