Product Support Article
Article ID: PSA100305 

Article Topic:

The disk space for your Microsoft Exchange database may not appear to decrease in size after many attachments are removed from mailboxes.

Applies To:

E-mail Management Server 2006

Conditions / Symptoms

After using E-mail Management Server to remove attachments from users mailboxes, the disk space on the machine where the Microsoft Exchange database is held still reports the same size as before the attachments were removed.

Issue / Cause

The Microsoft Exchange database may need to be defragmented before a reduction in disk space is seen.

Work Around / Fix

Please refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article on defragmenting your Microsoft Exchange database:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;192185