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Exchange 2007 – Determine Whitespace

Today, I was ‘pinged’ with a question regarding a post I made some time ago regarding white space in Exchange databases. This post was referring to Exchange 2010. This has prompted me to do a quick update on finding out this info in Exchange 2007. Here are my methods to gather this info: Log into […]

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Simple Exchange 2010 Database White Space Report

I was looking at some of my database on Exchange that seemed to be very large in size so first thought was that an offline defrag may be needed, but before I reach that point I wanted to know how much ‘slack’ or white space existed in each of my Exchange databases. This was done […]

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SQL Server backup in multiple parts

“It’s so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there’s no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That’s pretty well known.” – Robert Atkins Recently I have been working with my dB Administrator to get some DR backups to our […]

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ESEUtil to Defrag an Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx     How To use ESEUtil […]

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MapiException: TooManyMountedDatabases when mounting database

I was hit with a nice error when attempting to mount several Exchange databases on my new Exchange 2010 SP2 server that I had setup in a lab envionment for production testing. The error: ——————————————————–Microsoft Exchange Error——————————————————– Failed to mount database ‘IJ’.IJFailedError:Couldn’t mount the database that you specified. Specified database: IJ; Error code: An Active […]

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Exchange Database Size and Limits

In the dream time hours of the night one of the exchange data-stores went offline.  The steps to resolve the issue were put in place and handled swiftly by the administrator on duty; but what was the cause. After some digging I arrive at the reason why the data-store went offline.  Found in the Windows Application event ID 9630 […]