How to Clean Your Exchange Log Files

Exchange log files usually take a lot of space if you don't automate a backup to run from some time to time. If you find yourself out of space on your drive, here is the thing to do.

From Start menu, type "ntbackup" on the run box.

Backup Utility screen appears. Select the "Backup" tab and go to the "Microsoft Exchange Server" box, expand and click "Microsoft Information Store".

The following screen gives you some info and schedule options.

And here is the screen that you can watch the statistics till the end.

After a nice backup of Exchange Information Store, ntbackup simply deletes the log files, freeing the space you need.