There are many situations when user faces an issue while accessing mailbox folders in MS Exchange Server 2000. Generally such events occur when internal settings of mailbox store are not correctly adjusted or abrupt shutting down of Exchange Server and Database header corruption. Let us consider a scenario when user is unable to mount MS Exchange Server 2000 mailbox store data. The following error can be experienced:
Try restarting the Exchange System Manager or the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service,
Event ID: 9175
Source: MSExchangeSA
Category: MAPI Session
Description:
The MAPI call 'OpenMsgStore' failed with the following error: The attempt to log on to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer has failed. The MAPI provider failed. Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store ID no: 8004011d-0512-00000000
Cause:
The major cause behind the error message is existence of System mailbox object in System Object container, which is specifically created for this mailbox store. Hence when user tries to mount it, Exchange Server creates another object for the same, which is causing the objection.
Resolution:
In-order to resolve the aforementioned issue user can implement following mentioned steps:
- Open Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
- Under View menu, click the advance features options.\
- Track down Microsoft Exchange System Objects container, after this search for the System mailbox object whose mailbox store user wants to mount.
- Delete the System mailbox and then try to mount the mailbox store.
The aforementioned recovery steps are recommended by highly technical experts. But sometimes even these core steps fails to provide desired output. Resulting the Exchange data of the user gets corrupted and inaccessible or it may even get permanently lost. In that case user should look for third party Exchange recovery tool.
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