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EXCHANGE 2003 AND CONFIGURING THE PAGE FILE

jwhelan — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:35:00 GMT

This question has come up in the last hour or so with one of my customers and I thought it was worth mentioning as a reminder.

The recommend page file size for an Exchange server is 1.5x memory up to a maximum size of 4095Mb. For example, if you have 1Gb RAM, we would recommend a page file size of 1.5Gb.

If you have the maximum RAM that Exchange can utilize (4Gb), the page file size should be 6Gb. As we have a limitation on the page file size, you will need to create a second page file on a different volume.

From a performance perspective, it is recommend to have each page file on a seperate physical volume.

For more information, these two articles are particularly interesting:

Configuring page files for optimization and recovery in Windows Server 2003, in Windows 2000, and in Windows NT

and

Page file size is too small

top support issues for the Exchange information store

jwhelan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:25:31 GMT

I was talking to one of the Technical Account Managers (TAMs) yesterday regarding a customer and their Exchange Ops guide and if I could add anything to the current document. He was particularly interested in any kind of "top 10" that could be incorporated.

Well, after having a look around KB I found this article which contains some very useful information.

Welcome

jwhelan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:11:16 GMT

Welcome to my new Technet blog. I've been blogging for a while over on MSDN and I will be mirroring that here, though perhaps in the future I'll decide to migrate over, we'll see.

Anyway, a little bit about me. My name is James Whelan and I work for Microsoft UK. I've been at Microsoft for around 6 1/4 years and started off in Product Support Services (PSS) as an Exchange/Outlook engineer. I did that role for around 2 1/2 years before I moved over to my current role, which is a Rapid Response Engineer in March 2003. I've travelled all over Europe, and perhaps some of you reading this have met me. In the New Year, I'll be taking up a new role as a Technical Lead in the Microsoft Partner Program. It is a going to be a massive challenge and one which I am very excited about.

I hope you enjoy the blog. I welcome all comments and feedback.

I've just signed up to Technorati, you can check out my profile there, though it needs a bit of work.

Thanks & take care,

James.