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Exchange 2019 switch to empty DB
Good morning, I have my exchange server 2019 on win2019 server. The user's mailbox database, .edb file is too big (more than 30GB). I need to archive this database and start with a new empty database...
I'm not sure you have the terminology correct. The mailbox database contains multiple mailboxes. Each mailbox does not have it's own EDB file. To reduce the size of a mailbox you can create an archive mailbox and move the items to that mailbox, or you can export the items to PST (not recommended). In these scenarios the user can have access to both mailboxes. As Andres stated, this won't reduce the size of the underlying EDB file, but will reduce the size of the individual mailbox.