How to increase the Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 18-gigabyte database size limit (912375)

INTRODUCTION

New functionality has been included with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). You can now configure database size limits.

The database size limits for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition have been increased from 16 GB to 18 GB. The limit can be increased to as much as 75 GB by using a registry key.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition does not have a maximum database size limit.

For more information about how to set the database size limit, see the Exchange Server 2003 Help topic. The Help topic was updated during the installation of Exchange Server 2003 SP2.

MORE INFORMATION

For information about how to configure the new database size limit when you use Exchange Server 2003 SP2, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=57029

For more information about how to temporarily increase the database size in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or an earlier version of Exchange Server 2003, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

828070 Exchange Server Mailbox Store does not mount when the Mailbox Store database reaches the 16-GB limit

For more information about how to temporarily increase the database size in Exchange 2000 Server, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

813051 How to temporarily increase the Exchange 2000 16-gigabyte database size limit