I have taken responsibililty for a system and want to trend message storegrowth. Is there a way to generate an automated report that will list the size of each message store broken down by Storage Groups and database size? This would be very helpful to track, as to plan for future message store growth. Any help is greatly appreciated.

You did not really specify which version of exchange you are refering to... In Exchange 2000 and 2003 you will need to have a third party tool or script using either CDOEX(M) or WMI (wmi is exchange 2003 only, as 2000 functionality is very limited). In Exchange 2007 you can create a small powershell script using the Format-Table and Out-HTML cmdlets to create rather nice reports. Also look at this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=108C2B01-2CC9-4A84-A669-EB22533FA5E2&displaylang=en http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/ExchangeReporter/ Cheers, Mark

Thanks for all your help Mark. I am using Exchange 2003. What is a good third party tool I can use for saving message store trends?

Well, the one I mentioned is a good one http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/ExchangeReporter/