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    W2K w/exchange 2000 to W2K3 w/exchange 2003 (small business)

    Derek, Just reviewing your plan quickly, I don't think it will work because unless things have changed for SBS 2003, Small Business Server can only exist in its own domain in a single server environment, so you won't be able to add it to an existing domain or add another server to its domain...
  2. WillyBubba

    Migrating from 5.5 to 2003

    xmrse's right... you'll have to upgrade the OS to Win2K SP3 first and then upgrade Exchange. On your Exchange 2003 CD autorun splash screen, there is a link to deployment tools. Follow the links and it will walk you through the in-place upgrade. There are quite a few things you want to...
  3. WillyBubba

    Ran Eseutil - but didn't recoup space - ?

    More than likely, the reason why this is happening is due to the way Exchange stores messages. Exchange uses a "single-instance message store" model, which means that if a message is sent to 100 users, there is only one copy of the message on the server, with a link to the inboxes of...
  4. WillyBubba

    Exchange Defrag

    The problem that you're going to have with the /t switch is that once you've defragged the database, it now resides in a location other than your database paths that are specified for your server in the directory. You can't point database paths to a mapped drive, so you're going to be stuck at...
  5. WillyBubba

    IS limit 16GB

    I've dealt with this with several of my customers. I just submitted a FAQ on this, so check back to see if it's been added to the MS Exchange FAQs. I've seen 16GB databases regain up to 7 or 8 GB of space on databases that haven't been defragmented before. If you don't gain more than 1 - 2...
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    How do I defragment my Exchange 5.5. databases?

    A few points before you do this: 1. - The /b switch in eseutil creates a backup of your database in the path location that follows the switch. Make sure that you have enough disk space on that path. For the sake of example, I've put in the path "c:\backup". Change this to wherever you want...
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