Question : Offline Defrag

Have an Exchange 2003 cluster. We need to perform offline defrag and compression on the storage groups. Now although this is a simple procedure using the ESEUTILS, we would like to automate the function if at all possible. I know that we can create batch files with the appropriate ESEUTIL parameters and then use Windows scheduler to run them, but is there any way (batch file or other) to take the storage group offline and possibly remount, although this is really not a requirement since it would be completed by early morning/day?

Answer : Offline Defrag

...but it is possible with a VBscript:

http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2003/12/command_line_st.html

                       
             Set oDB = CreateObject("CDOEXM.MailboxStoreDB")
 
strDB = "CN=Mailbox Store (E2K3),CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=E2K3,CN=Servers,CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Exchange 2003,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com"
 
oDB.DataSource.Open strDB
oDB.Dismount()

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