Technology at HarleyTechnology at Harley » Tag » weekend https://sites.harleyschool.org/tech Computer and Network Related Stuff Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:11:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 Exchange Server Limit https://sites.harleyschool.org/tech/2011/01/13/exchange-server-limit/ https://sites.harleyschool.org/tech/2011/01/13/exchange-server-limit/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:38:17 +0000 http://sites.harleyschool.org/tech/?p=28 Last weekend our email server hit the database size limit and dismounted the information store, halting all email transport and access.

Originally with Exchange 2003 Standard Edition there was a 16GB limit on the information store. This was one of the factors used to force you to upgrade to the Enterprise Edition which is ridiculously more expensive . When the database hit that size it would dismount causing all your users to start wrapping torches and sharpening pitchforks. They enabled a registry tweak to allow you 1 more GB of space to allow you to mount the store and reclaim some space by deleting old email.

With Service Pack 2 they upped the default limit to 18GB, which is the threshold we hit a few days ago, and allowed an absolute limit of up to 75GB. You can set this limit with another registry tweak.

Of course this couldn’t have happened on a weekday when I was here, it had to happen on a Saturday while I was out to lunch with the family and some friends. Figures…

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