How can I kick off exchange maintenance?

I'm testing my non-production exchange mailbox and just imported a
large number of messages into an outlook client which subsequently
sent them to exchage. I've removed them from the outlook client, but
I'd like to see them removed from the exchange store as well. I'm
assuming since they've been deleted they are sitting in the DB waiting
for some maintenance task to come along and remove them.

How can I force maintenance to run so I can see if the DB size gets
reduces.

All a part of learning how exchange works.

Larry
Fri May 09 08:15:23 PDT 2008

Hi Roveer:

Not necessary, not required, not recommended. Deleted messages should stay
in the exchange database for x days, per the settings you made when you ran
the backup wizard. This insures that a message that has been deleted
accidently can be recovered. Secondly, the maintenance runs automagically
during the night, and lastly, the database does not "shrink" but contains
empty space waiting to hold more messages. This helps avoid the dual
problems of fragmentation and crowding the exchange store out with other
data.

To "shrink" the edb files you have to run exchange utilities. Not needed,
not recommended.

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Larry
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"Roveer" <roveer@erols.com> wrote in message
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> I'm testing my non-production exchange mailbox and just imported a
> large number of messages into an outlook client which subsequently
> sent them to exchage. I've removed them from the outlook client, but
> I'd like to see them removed from the exchange store as well. I'm
> assuming since they've been deleted they are sitting in the DB waiting
> for some maintenance task to come along and remove them.
>
> How can I force maintenance to run so I can see if the DB size gets
> reduces.
>
> All a part of learning how exchange works.
>