SBS 2008 disk space and the DataServiceComponents.log file
I was doing some house keeping on a SBS 2008 server and was trying to free up some disk space on C:\, I usually like to keep 20-30GB free on it. There is a really good Technet blog post ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/ sbs/archive/2010/03/02/ recovering-disk-space-on-the- c-drive-in-small-business- server-2008.aspx ), which gives a good overview of some of the areas where we can reclaim diskspace from. These include SBS Logs, IIS Logs, Badmail directory, and a couple of wizards, the WSUS Cleanup Wizard, and the Move Data Wizards. One of the first things we do with a new SBS server is move the data and WSUS off of the C:\ so this generally leaves logs and Badmail. For example, I was amazed to see taht my DataServiceComponents.log (located in C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\ MonitoringServiceLogs) was nearly 3.5GB in size, not only is it huge but for a text based log file it would be a nightmare to use. SBS 2008 logs an awful lot of data