ESEUTIL bug with Exchange 2010 RC1

[Plummer@discussions.microsoft.com Alan Plummer]

If you have a Public Folder database on Exchange 2010 RC1 and use ESEUTIL /d
on the EDB, rather than shrink the database it makes it bigger everytime you
run it.

Is this a bug?

[Oliver Moazzezi [MVP]]

Just trying this in my lab now...

Oliver

[Alan Plummer]

I hope you get the same results as me.....

[Oliver Moazzezi [MVP]]

Alan it is not doing it for me.

I've passed on your information though.

thanks,

Oliver

[Alan Plummer]

Thanks for trying it Oliver.

FYI, it was a brand new PF database created in 2010. I then rammed in over
1Gb of folders and emails, then tried to compact it.

It increases by around 200Mb everytime I run ESEUTIL /D

Regards

Alan

[Alan Plummer]

Oliver,

I have done some more research on this and it's definately a bug.

I've done a clean install of Exchange Server 2010.

I create a new Public Folder Database. The only change I do is allow OAB to
be distributed via this Public Folder.

Stop the Information Store Service.

Run ESEUTIL /d "x:\......\Public Folder Database.edb"

Everytime you run this, even on a NEW database it increases in size by about
10% rather than shrinking.

Regards

Alan

[Alan Plummer]

After posting this, I forgot to mention you might have to run ESEUTIL /d more
than once to notice the increase in the file size.

If you run it over and over again without adding anything to PF it gets
bigger and bigger.

I would open a Support Contract with Microsoft but I have to wait till it's
RTM'd

[Alan Plummer]

I opened up a Microsoft Support Incident.

This has been CONFIRMED as a bug by Microsoft in Exchange 2010 RTM.

They reckon it'll be fixed in a couple of months.