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Exchange Server 2003 Automatic Maintenance

Author
20 Nov 2007 9:32 AM
Nicolas Macarez
Hi!
I have an Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and I know that certain tasks of
maintenance are taking place between 1:00 am and 5:00 am.
The backup takes place between 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm.

The issue is two-fold:
1) I'm not sure the maintenance is really OK, since I'm not recovering a lot
of space from deleted mailboxes (event after the 30 days of retention).
2) Every Friday, I get this message in my mailbox:

The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed processing
mailboxes
Started at:     2007-11-16 00:09:58
Completed at:   2007-11-16 00:09:58
Mailboxes processed:    0
Messages moved: 0
Size of moved messages: 0.00 KB
Deleted messages:       0
Size of deleted messages:       0.00 KB



The issue is again that all the figures are zero, like if nothing was
happening.

Any idea?

Help appreciated.

Nicolas

Author
20 Nov 2007 2:31 PM
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
Nicolas Macarez <maca***@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi!
> I have an Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and I know that certain tasks of
> maintenance are taking place between 1:00 am and 5:00 am.
> The backup takes place between 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
>
> The issue is two-fold:
> 1) I'm not sure the maintenance is really OK, since I'm not
> recovering a lot of space from deleted mailboxes (event after the 30
> days of retention).

When you say "recovering space," note that you won't see the file sizes
change. You should see the amount of reported whitespace change after online
maintenance(event ID 1221 in the app log). How much are you expecting to
see? Are you seeing any errors?

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> 2) Every Friday, I get this message in my mailbox:
>
> The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed processing
> mailboxes
> Started at:     2007-11-16 00:09:58
> Completed at:   2007-11-16 00:09:58
> Mailboxes processed:    0
> Messages moved: 0
> Size of moved messages: 0.00 KB
> Deleted messages:       0
> Size of deleted messages:       0.00 KB
>
>
>
> The issue is again that all the figures are zero, like if nothing was
> happening.

Yep - but what exactly did you set up this mailbox management policy to do?

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>
> Any idea?
>
> Help appreciated.
>
> Nicolas
Author
25 Nov 2007 9:06 PM
Nicolas Macarez
Hi !

So sorry to answer so late:

1) I have events ID 1221 in the app log which report some space was
recovered after defragmentation - fine for me.
2) No i didn't schedule or set any mailbox management policy on Friday
night.

Regards
Nicolas


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> Nicolas Macarez <maca***@free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I have an Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and I know that certain tasks of
>> maintenance are taking place between 1:00 am and 5:00 am.
>> The backup takes place between 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
>>
>> The issue is two-fold:
>> 1) I'm not sure the maintenance is really OK, since I'm not
>> recovering a lot of space from deleted mailboxes (event after the 30
>> days of retention).
>
> When you say "recovering space," note that you won't see the file sizes
> change. You should see the amount of reported whitespace change after
> online maintenance(event ID 1221 in the app log). How much are you
> expecting to see? Are you seeing any errors?
>
>> 2) Every Friday, I get this message in my mailbox:
>>
>> The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed processing
>> mailboxes
>> Started at:     2007-11-16 00:09:58
>> Completed at:   2007-11-16 00:09:58
>> Mailboxes processed:    0
>> Messages moved: 0
>> Size of moved messages: 0.00 KB
>> Deleted messages:       0
>> Size of deleted messages:       0.00 KB
>>
>>
>>
>> The issue is again that all the figures are zero, like if nothing was
>> happening.
>
> Yep - but what exactly did you set up this mailbox management policy to
> do?
>
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Help appreciated.
>>
>> Nicolas
>
>
>
Author
25 Nov 2007 11:23 PM
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]
Nicolas Macarez <maca***@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> So sorry to answer so late:
>
> 1) I have events ID 1221 in the app log which report some space was
> recovered after defragmentation - fine for me.

OK - so nothing to worry about, then, right?

> 2) No i didn't schedule or set any mailbox management policy on Friday
> night.

Someone must have - there isn't one in there by default.
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>
> Regards
> Nicolas
>
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwe***@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> a écrit
> dans le message de news: %23VuWxb4KIHA.3***@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Nicolas Macarez <maca***@free.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> I have an Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and I know that certain tasks of
>>> maintenance are taking place between 1:00 am and 5:00 am.
>>> The backup takes place between 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
>>>
>>> The issue is two-fold:
>>> 1) I'm not sure the maintenance is really OK, since I'm not
>>> recovering a lot of space from deleted mailboxes (event after the 30
>>> days of retention).
>>
>> When you say "recovering space," note that you won't see the file
>> sizes change. You should see the amount of reported whitespace
>> change after online maintenance(event ID 1221 in the app log). How
>> much are you expecting to see? Are you seeing any errors?
>>
>>> 2) Every Friday, I get this message in my mailbox:
>>>
>>> The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed
>>> processing mailboxes
>>> Started at:     2007-11-16 00:09:58
>>> Completed at:   2007-11-16 00:09:58
>>> Mailboxes processed:    0
>>> Messages moved: 0
>>> Size of moved messages: 0.00 KB
>>> Deleted messages:       0
>>> Size of deleted messages:       0.00 KB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The issue is again that all the figures are zero, like if nothing
>>> was happening.
>>
>> Yep - but what exactly did you set up this mailbox management policy
>> to do?
>>
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> Help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Nicolas

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