September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
6h 8m
English
book
Managing the Store & DAG: EXCERPT from Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 Inside Out
by Tony Redmond
Content preview from Managing the Store & DAG: EXCERPT from Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013 Inside OutBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Background maintenance
All databases have internal structures that require some degree of maintenance to ensure logical consistency, and Exchange is no different. You can take a database offline to rebuild it with the ESEUTIL utility, but a database rebuild requires you to deprive users of access to their mailboxes. Microsoft designed Exchange to be highly available with as little downtime as possible, and online maintenance is necessary to keep the databases in good order while allowing users to continue working.
The maintenance Exchange performs can be grouped into the following categories:
Miscellaneous content maintenance These tasks are performed during the maintenance schedule assigned as a property of mailbox databases, typically from 1 A.M. ...