No matter
large or small organization, all use Exchange Server for their
communication and database. Now a days emails are an essential part
for every company because they are the best way to communicate with
the client of any company.
Since Microsoft Exchange Server is
flexible and very much user friendly that is why it is becoming
famous in the corporate world, but every thing has its limitation.
Exchange Server also gets damaged or corrupted due to some errors
such as virus attack, hardware failure, operating system malfunction
and abnormal termination of the information store service and many
more.
Corruption in Exchange server is a
subject to take seriously because it may be the cause to loose all
important data from your database. Following are some common errors
that usually come up when the Exchange Server gets corrupted:-
MS Exchange Ad Access Error 2501
Exchange error 1053
Exchange error 4.4.7
Exchange error 1068
There are many more similar errors that
are encountered when Exchange Server gets damaged. In order to solve
the problem of corruption in Exchange Server you can use following
free utility:-
1) ESEUTIL Utility:-It is a command
line utility that defragments the mailbox and public folder stores in
Exchange Server. ESEUTIL verifies the database integrity and repairs
damaged database.
It can be found in \Exchsrvr\bin(dir)
and test the structure of database table, records by reading,scanning
and repairing.
You can use following commands:-
ESEUTIL/d:-performs off line
compaction of the database.
ESEUTIL/r:-recovers database.
ESEUTIL/g:-verify the integrity of the
database.
ESEUTIL/p:-repairs corrupted database.
ESEUTIL/c:-restore information.
ESEUTIL/y:-copies database streaming
file or log file.
2) ISINTEG Utility:- This utility
identifies database as ESE database and verify that database tables,
records and indexes.
Limitation:- There are some limitations
with these free utilities
*Both work in off line mode.
*We can use them for only minor
corruption.
*There is no guarantee for the 100%
data recovery.
Even
if Exchange Server database remains corrupt after using these
utilities then go for a third party tool.
Stellar Phoenix Exchange ServerRecoveryis an efficacious
application that efficiently performs Exchange Server Recovery in few
steps. The demo version of the software can be downloaded from the
website directly and it offers a preview of user mailbox items in a
three view structure.
This software supports all major
versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. With the help of this software
you can access all damaged data of user mailbox such as calender
events, contacts, attachments, emails etc.
