WinSxS Folder size

[ITGURU]

I have 2 exchange servers in a DAG. Both have a 146gb raid 1 drives with the OS on.

Both are running fine, however i'm having an issue with 1 of the servers.

The disk space keeps reducing.

On 1 of the servers, i have 45gb of free space - iclear the IIS logs out every so often to keep plenty of space.

THe other server gets down to 10gb free space and I am unable to clear the IIS log files any more than I have.

 

When i do a foldersize comparison between the 2 servers c drives i find the following:

 

On the server with the lowest space, the WinSXS folder is hugely larger than the other server.

 

Is there anything i can safely do to reduce the size of the folder without having knock on effects now, or in the future with any changes to the server.

 

THnaks,

[3s-gtech]

You can compress the parts of WinSxS that aren’t be used. This takes longer when you install any extra components etc, but I had to do all of these tricks on my old Exchange server as I made C: too small.

 

Have you moved all of the log locations?

[ITGURU]

You can compress the parts of WinSxS that aren’t be used. This takes longer when you install any extra components etc, but I had to do all of these tricks on my old Exchange server as I made C: too small.

 

Have you moved all of the log locations?

 

Can you clarify which logs?

I have the exchange log files on C and database on E

[3s-gtech]

I found some great guides online, usually blogs, about it. IIS logs was another to move I think.

[mavhc]

What version of windows server?