Managing Storage Settings

It is a simple fact that the user's need for storage expands to meet the total amount of available storage plus 10%. Without management of storage demands, you will never have enough disk space. Of course, these needs are seldom thought about when the Exchange server is deployed. It is very easy to go from "we have plenty of storage" to "where did all the disk space go?" Everything from attachments to deleted item retention to bulging inboxes demands storage space. Fortunately, we can leverage Windows PowerShell to bring some sanity to the situation.

The first step in working with the storage groups is to find out how many storage groups are defined on the server and their associated names. To do this, use the Get-StorageGroup ...

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