Sorry I am not the greatest at exchange. We are having major issues with SPACE in our exchange environment. We have 3 500GB Databases and they are all sitting at less then 10gb free. I have added two 500 GB Drives and created DB4 and DB5. I have moved a large amount of users to DB4 to clear off the space. I was then going to move more to 5 to clear up and run defrags on all 5. I know we dont need to but we get alerts from our monitoring system saying they are this low. I cleared up one and did the defrag and it did not give me anything back. When I run the command "Get-MailboxDatabase Exchangedb3 -Status | FL AvailableNewMailboxSpace" It show no white space available. Now when I run the statistics command Get-MailboxDatabase "exchangedb3" | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort totalitemsize -desc | ft displayname, totalitemsize, itemcount It shows the user in both Databases taking the same amount of space. So here are my questions, 1. Is there a way to clear these users. It has been days and the maintenance runs every night at 1 am. 2. I know the prefered method is to Move all the users and delete the database. I dont have a problem doing this either but it still shows the user in there. I was going to move entire group to 5 then delete the group and move down the line but I am afraid of deleting the old database when it still shows users as having data. PS. I do notice the size is changing for each user on the new database and not on the one it was moved from. Sizes are different, so it doesnt look like the old DB is updating.

Hi, Mailboxes are only soft deleted when moved from one database in Exchange 2010 SP1 to another. They will stay in the source maildatabase until deleted mailbox retention period runs out - or until you manually delete the mailboxes. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232039.aspx Leif

Which I currently have turned on NOT to delete till after the a full backup runs in which we run only once a week. Now everything is making sense. Thank you very much for your quick response sir.

So it would be safe to delete the old databases when the users have been moved off?

Hi, You shouldn't be allowed to delete a database with any live mailboxes in it - so yes that should be safe. Leif

Hi, You shouldn't be allowed to delete a database with any live mailboxes in it - so yes that should be safe. Leif