Moving a mailbox to another server doubles mailbox size.

[chux73]

I'm currently in a process of moving all our mailboxes to another exchange 2000 server. The move works fine and users can read and send emails. The problem I have is that the mailbox on the destination server increases in size. It's like it doubles in size. I don't know why it does this, can anyone please answer me why and if there is a way of reducing the mailboxes back down to their original size.

Thanks and Regards

 

[Nzarth]

Try this first:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;192185&Product=exch2k

Nzarth

MCSA/MCSE (W2K), CCA

Working on CCNA

 

[jaksen112]

The reason its doubling in size is likely because the deleted items retention is set and the deleted/deleted was not purged prior to the move, therefore it took all the old stuff with it on the move.

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