http://blogs.msdn.com/douggowans/archive/2009/02/10/archive-v-big-mailboxes.aspxOk so this may not be a straight choice for most and an archive solution can complement Exchange for many environments, but there are some who have not yet deployed an archive solution and who can look at it as a straight choice – small mailboxes anden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/douggowans/archive/2009/02/10/archive-v-big-mailboxes.aspx#9419684Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:04:11 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9419684subject: exchange<p>Outlook Live: Microsoft’s efforts towards living in the cloud How to troubleshoot performance issues</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/douggowans/archive/2009/02/10/archive-v-big-mailboxes.aspx#9427723Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:52:41 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9427723douggowans<p>Also now starting to see some guidance concerning the inefficient use of database pages as a result of having a large number of tiny items (stubs) in an Exchange database. &nbsp;For example online defrag cannot recover an 8KB page where only 1KB is used... Hopefully be able to post more soon.</p>