what does that have to do with Exchange 2003?
you're just going to further wreck the performance of the system by doing
this and potentially cause something worse by requiring the
compression/decompression of the data mid-stream in the kernel-mode
Exchange
I/O.
You should seriously consider finding a better way to spend your time than
creating problems.
"Alan Truism" <master.of.sock.puppets@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1183144373.135469.146450@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Jun 29, 3:00 pm, Andy David {MVP}
> <ada...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:49:17 -0700, Alan Truism
>>
>> <master.of.sock.pupp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >I was thinking about compressing the drive housing my Exchange 2003
>> >information store. Is there anything I should consider before taking
>> >this step??
>>
>> Have your resume ready.
>
> http://sup****t.microsoft.com/kb/318116/en-us/
>
> This article states the following:
> Note Do not install Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, on a
> compressed drive unless the drive was compressed with the NTFS file
> system compression utility. Uncompress a DriveSpace or DoubleSpace
> volume before running Setup on it.
>
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