September 15, 2011

Determining Exchange’s Database Size

By Mike

An easy way to determine the Exchange’s actual database size is to look for Event ID 1221 under Windows application logs.  For example, If the database size is 100gigs and event 1221 is reporting 30000 megabytes free space; then your actual database size is 70gigs.  As a result, you can compact the database to 70gigs from 100gigs if you ran an offline defragmentation on the database.

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