Optimizing Exchange Through Ongoing Maintenance

Through typical usage, Exchange databases become fragmented. This fragmentation gradually slows server performance and can also lead to corruption over extended periods of time. In order to ensure that an Exchange Server continues to service requests in an optimized manner and the chances of corruption are minimized, it is important to perform regular maintenance on Exchange.

Although Exchange Server 2003 performs online maintenance tasks on a nightly basis, this accounts for roughly only 60–70% of the maintenance tasks that are recommended. Offline maintenance, on the other hand, achieves the true optimization of the information stores, as well as prevents and fixes corruption. Offline optimization ...

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