Exchange Server 2013 SP1 - Optimize for Single Server Use

Question

Hello,
i've set up Exchange 2013 SP1 with at last CU6 - get exchangeserver says:
AdminDisplayVersion             : Version 15.0 (Build 995.29)
ExchangeVersion                 : 0.1 (8.0.535.0)              - - - funny number ;-) (is this an early version???)
Yes, the annoying 16028 in the application log are running every five minutes, but thats not the main question.
Which services are needed in a SINGLE-SERVER Environment, without DAG and unified messaging?
Can the Self-Checking, Health- and Self-Probing be put down?
These services are started automatic:
   Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology
   Microsoft Exchange Anti-spam Update
   Microsoft Exchange DAG Management
   Microsoft Exchange Diagnostics
   Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync
   Microsoft Exchange Frontend Transport
   Microsoft Exchange Health Manager
   Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants
   Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication
   Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Transport Delivery
   Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Transport Submission
   Microsoft Exchange Migration Workflow
   Microsoft Exchange Replication
   Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access
   Microsoft Exchange Search
   Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller
   Microsoft Exchange Service Host
   Microsoft Exchange Throttling
   Microsoft Exchange Transport
   Microsoft Exchange Transport Log Search
   Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging
   Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging Call Router
   Microsoft Exchange-Informationsspeicher
   Microsoft Filtering Management Service
   Microsoft Online Services Sign-in Assistant
And with C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\Queue\mail.que about 512 MBytes size (which may may be a designed default size)...
Have set up about 6 users mailboxes, 3 public folder in a mailbox for public folders. Only for testing purposes sent some (small) mails, no external mails received (only testing receive with 'popcon' for mail delivery to the internal boxes).
The server (2012 R2) is running only in the internal network (yes, with internet connection for updates).
No virus scanners, not third party receive or send connectors, only the 5 default (3 Frontend, 2 Hub) receive Connectors and one Send Connector to our mail provider set up and no user activity (only sometimes from me for testing).
It seems like it's doing only with itself, logging file sizes of above 11 GB (in 4 weeks), with huge amounts of probing, health checking, internal testing, internal updating etc.
Can this logging be set up to a lower level, can services be deactivated (for single server configuration),
the logging volume should be in a useful relation to the mail use of the server, a message for every self test, internal health check etc. in the log-files normally isn't useful, only when problems occur there is a need...
Thanks in advance
Andreas

Answer 1

Between Exchange protocol-based log files, PerfMon .blg files used by Managed Availability, IIS logs, etc., the total footprint can add up quickly and these logs are not purged automatically.  You can take a look at this site below and use the powershell
script to clean it up.
http://www.c7solutions.com/2013/04/removing-old-exchange-2013-log-files-html