Purging old Exchange email/content on SBS2003

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Published on 2012-05-31T10:34:59Z Indexed on 2012/05/31 10:43 UTC
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We have a Windows SBS 2003 server that used to manage email, calendaring and such like for a small organisation via Exchange. We successfully migrated everything to Google Apps for Business about 18 months ago. The server only provides local network services now.

We have backed up and virtualized this machine and would now like to purge any residual mail to save disk space and speed up backup etc.

The disk space is such that I believe the Exchange mail is still on there somewhere.

I've stumbled through System Manager and poked about but cannot confirm whether this is the case. Where would this live and how might I go about it?

(Disclaimer: I'm not a Windows admin, Linux is my thing...)

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