ran into a problem today where an administrator told me that their "top 100 mailboxes by size" report stopped working. now, to define the boundaries of "stopped working", let's evaluate these few things: report works for other servers report worked a month ago i generally follow these basic rules to troubleshoot a report issue: check if the report contains data check if data exists in the console check if data exists in the reporting tables so going on the boundaries of "stopped working", we start with step 1. i open up the report to verify what the person telling me is the same thing i'm seeing. in this case, it actually was. :o i tried switching the report to a different server and data came up. i tried switching it to the problem server and no data existed. perplexing! i went to step 2. to make this easier, i created some custom performance views to look at the object "mcexchdg" breaking it down into "mailbox mb" a
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