We have everyone in the company in one storage group. However it is regularly getting too large despite trying to keep mailbox sizes down. Can I add another storage group (with as little downtime as possible) and if so, will that relieve the size of our present database? Thanks m
Hi, I assume that you mean add an additional mailbox store? This is possible if you are using the enterprise edition of Exchange 200x. You create the store and move some mailboxes to this new store. There should be no downtime involved except for the mailboxes that you move - they will be unavailable during the move. Leif "El Marko" wrote in message news:Oz1BGZ1TGHA.2656@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > We have everyone in the company in one storage group. However it is > regularly getting too large despite trying to keep mailbox sizes down. Can > I add another storage group (with as little downtime as possible) and if > so, will that relieve the size of our present database? > > Thanks > m > >
If you have Exchange 2000 Enterprise, create a new mailbox store in the Storage Group. If you have Exchange 2003 Enterprise, create a new Storage Group in the Administrative Group and create a Store within that. If you have Standard, upgrade to Enterprise :-) No downtime. Then select the users that are not around and you can move them to the new store using AD. Those mailboxes will move over 4 at a time. The store won't get smaller though until you do an offline defrag. "Leif Pedersen [MVP]" wrote in message news:udIOup1TGHA.4600@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > I assume that you mean add an additional mailbox store? > > This is possible if you are using the enterprise edition of Exchange 200x. > You create the store and move some mailboxes to this new store. There > should be no downtime involved except for the mailboxes that you move - > they will be unavailable during the move. > > Leif > > "El Marko" wrote in message > news:Oz1BGZ1TGHA.2656@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... >> We have everyone in the company in one storage group. However it is >> regularly getting too large despite trying to keep mailbox sizes down. >> Can I add another storage group (with as little downtime as possible) and >> if so, will that relieve the size of our present database? >> >> Thanks >> m >> >> > >
What version of exchange are you running? "El Marko" wrote in message news:Oz1BGZ1TGHA.2656@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... > We have everyone in the company in one storage group. However it is > regularly getting too large despite trying to keep mailbox sizes down. Can > I add another storage group (with as little downtime as possible) and if > so, will that relieve the size of our present database? > > Thanks > m > >
