16 GB Limit Calls

Exchange Server Mailbox

Store does not mount when
the Mailbox Store database
reaches the 16-GB limit
 Exchange 2000/2003
 Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeIS
Event Category: General
Event ID: 1112

 Event Type: Warning

Event Source: ESE
Event Category: Space Management
Event ID: 445
 Exchange 2000
 We can temporarily increase the Exchange 2000 16-
gigabyte database size limit.

 The Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server message database

(MDB) automatically shuts down and does not restart
when it reaches the maximum size limit that is permitted.
This behavior is by design to prevent the database from
trying to insert more data into the database file than it
was designed to hold. Frequently, you experience this
behavior when you are running Microsoft Exchange 2000
Server Standard Edition. Exchange 2000 Server
Standard Edition limits the database size to 16
gigabytes.
 Exchange 2000….
 Temporarily increase the database size
limit by 1 GB.
 •Selectively remove unnecessary
database content.
 •Defragment the database to reduce the
database to a level that is in the defined
boundaries of the database size.
 2000….. continues
Prerequisites:>

Because of file dependencies, this

update requires Microsoft Exchange
2000 Server Service Pack 3 (SP3).
For more information, click the
following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base: 301378
.

Create New Registry Value

The update requires you to create a new registry value to enable this feature.
To add the registry entry to the Exchange
2000 computer, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, and then type

regedt32.exe.
Locate the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\
<Exchange Server Name>\Private- GUID.
On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then
type the following in the Value name box:
Temporary DB Size Limit Extension
► Select REG_DWORD for the data type, and
then click OK
► Enter a value of 1, and then click OK
► Quit Registry Editor
► However, this registry value is not read
dynamically; it is only read when a database is
started. When the Exchange Information Store
starts, an event 9657 will be logged as a
warning to inform you that you are using a
temporary database size limit.
Exchange 2000 Continues>>>

 To prevent new e-mail content from being

added to the mailbox store beyond the
temporary 17-GB limit during the recovery
process, Microsoft strongly recommends
that you stop the Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP) service and the Microsoft
Exchange MTA Stacks service (if it is
running) before you mount the mailbox store
*********
 Mount your mailbox store
 Remove data from your mailbox store.
To do this, use any of these methods:>
 Use Microsoft Outlook to delete
unnecessary e-mail items from
individual inboxes and other folders.
 Use Outlook to delete unnecessary
e-mail items from the Sent Items
folder
____>>>>>
 Use Outlook to empty the Deleted Items
folder.
 If deleted item retention is set, you may
want to temporarily reduce retention to zero
(0) days:
 a. Click Start, point to Programs, point to
Microsoft Exchange, and then click
System Manager
 Get to the Basic…
b. Right-click Mailbox Store, and
then click Properties
c. Click the Limits tab, and then
type 0 in the Keep deleted items
for days box.
Delete mailboxes that are no
longer used.
Use the Move Mailbox tool to move
mailboxes to a mailbox store that is
on another Exchange server
 Go to the basics again:>
 Have users create personal folder (.pst)
files on their local hard drives and then
archive content from the mailbox store
database to their local hard drives.
After going through the basics

 Open Exchange System Manager.

To do this, click Start, point to Programs, point

to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System
Manager.
 Double-click the Exchange server, and then
double-click Storage Group
 Right -click Mailbox Store, and then click
Properties
Lets to advance things:>
 Click the Database tab, and then click Customize to
modify the schedule to run immediately.
Online maintenance may take up to 30 minutes to start
and several hours to complete. When online
maintenance has started, the following event ID
message is logged in the application event log:
 Event Type: Information
Event Source: ESE
Event Category: Online Defragmentation
Event ID: 700
Description: MSExchangeIS (170) Online
Defragmentation is beginning a full pass on
database 'C:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb'.
 View the application event log to verify that online maintenance of
your mailbox store is complete. Event ID1221 indicates that online
maintenance is complete. This event ID message also indicates
how much free space there will be on your mailbox store after offline
defragmentation. Event ID 1221 appears similar to the following
message: Event Type: Information
Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
Event Category: General
Event ID: 1221
Description: The database Storage Group Name\Mailbox Store
has 565 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation
has terminated.
Continues:::::::::
 Run an offline defragmentation of your
mailbox store by using the Eseutil tool
(Eseutil.exe).

You must dismount the mailbox store before

you run an offline defragmentation, and you
must have free disk space equal to at least
110% of the database size to run eseutil /d
drivefrom where you are running this
command.
 Exchange 2003

. Apply Service Pack 2 on the E2K3.

.SP2 is available from the following

link:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/d
ownloads/2003/sp2/default.mspx
Changes with SP 2
 Describe the database size limit
 Configure the database size limit in the
standard and enterprise versions of
Exchange
 Describe the licensed database size limit
 Describe the timing of the database size
check
 Analyze early warnings prior to reaching the
database size limit
Registry Key for Configurable DB size
limit:
► HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services\
MSExchangeIS\<SERVER NAME>\
Private-<GUID of the database>
 Data Type: REG_DWORD
 Name: Database Size Limit in GB
 Value:
► Standard: 1 - 75
► Enterprise: 1 - 8000
Database Size Buffer Warning
 Upon mounting the store, we compare the
physical database size against the
Configured Database Limit.
 If the physical size is within or exceeds the
configured “Database Size Warning Buffer”
then the store will do a logical calculation of
the database size.
 If the physical size is below the configured
“Database Size Warning Buffer” then there is
no need to calculate the fee space because
logical size will always be <= physical size.
Configuring the Database Size
Buffer Warning
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services\
MSExchangeIS\<SERVER NAME>\Private-
<GUID of the database>
 Data Type: REG_DWORD
 Name: Database Size Buffer in Percentage
 Value: 1-100
Timing of the Database Size
Check
 By default, timing of the database size
check will occur at 5A.M. and run off
24-hr intervals
 Both time and interval are configured
via registry per database
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\
<SERVER NAME>\Private-<GUID of the
database>
 Data Type: REG_DWORD
 Name: Database Size Check Start Time in Hours
From Midnight
 Value: 1 – 24
Lets Go through the Troubleshooting
Of the SP2:
 Event IDs 1216/1217 are logged when
mounting the database. Event ID 1216 is
logged on Standard SKU or if configurable
database size limit has been set on
Enterprise SKU. Event ID 1217 is logged
on Enterprise SKU only.
 Event Type: Information
 Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox
Store
 Event ID: 1216
1216..
 Computer: Name
 Description: The Exchange store 'First
Storage Group\Mailbox Store (Name)' is
limited to 1 GB. The current physical size of
this database (the .edb file and the .stm file)
is 1 GB. If the physical size of this database
minus its logical free space exceeds the
limit of 1 GB, the database will be
dismounted on a regular basis.
1217 “”
 Event Type: Information
 Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
 Event ID: 1217
 Computer: Name
 Description: The Exchange store 'First
Storage Group\Mailbox Store (Name)' has
unlimited storage capacity. The current physical
size of this database (the .edb file and the .stm
file) is 1 GB. The only size constraint for this
database is the maximum size that is supported
by the database storage engine (8000 GB).
Event ID 9685 is logged at
database mount and Physical
size increases:
 Event Type=Warning
 Information store '%1': The physical database size (physical size of
the EDB file and the STM file) is %2 Gb, which has exceeded the
maximum size limit of %3 Gb for this database. However, the logical
free space in the database has not yet been evaluated, so it is
possible that there is ample free space in the database to bring its
logical size below the maximum size limit.
 %n%nIf the logical database size exceeds this limit, it will be forced
to dismount on a regular basis
Event ID 9686 is logged at database
mount and whenever the database size
check start time is changed. (requires
logging levels to be set to MINIMUM
Event Type: Information
Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
Event ID: 9686
Computer: Name
Description: Exchange store 'First Storage
Group\Mailbox Store (Name)': A check of the logical
size of this database (the logical size equals the
physical size of the .edb file and the .stm file minus
the logical free space in each) is scheduled to be
performed on a regular basis.
Size Limit: 1 GB
Warning Threshold: 10 %
Initial Size Check: 5AM
Size Check Interval: 1 minutes
Event ID 9687 is logged when the database size check task is
executed. (requires logging levels to be set to MINIMUM)
 9687…..continues
• Event Type: Information
• Event Source:MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
• Event ID: 9687
• Computer:Name
• Description: Exchange store 'First Storage Group\Mailbox
Store (Name)': A check of the logical size of this database
(the logical size equals the physical size of the .edb file and
the .stm file minus the logical free space in each) will now
be performed.
• Size Limit: 1 GB
• Warning Threshold: 10 %
• Initial Size Check: 5AM
• Size Check Interval: 1 minutes
9688 Event ID:
 Event ID 9688 is logged when the
database size check task is executed
logged whenever the size check task is
executed and the logical database size
exceeds the warning threshold but not
the maximum size.
9688 continues…
 EventID=9688
 Event Type=Warning
 Information store '%1': The logical database size
(physical size of the EDB file and the STM file
minus the logical free space in each) is %2 Gb,
which is approaching the size limit of %3 Gb for
this database.
 %n%nIf the logical database size exceeds this
limit, it will be forced to dismount on a regular
basis
Event ID 9689 is logged whenever the database size check task
is executed and the logical database size exceeds the maximum
size, but the database will not be dismounted. This will give an
administrator until the next size check task execution to correct
the situation
9689 continues..
 Event Type: Error
 Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
 Event ID: 9689
 Computer: Name
 Description: Exchange store 'First Storage Group\
Mailbox Store (Name)': The logical size of this database
(the logical size equals the physical size of the .edb file
and the .stm file minus the logical free space in each) is
1 GB. This database size has exceeded the size limit of
1 GB