Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Resolving Exchange Sever Error -338 (JET_errBadParentPageLink, Database corrupted)

Microsoft Exchange Server, no doubt, is one of the best email server applications. It is a transaction based messaging tool and provides better security system against important data loss. Despite of powerful data security, Exchange database files still become damaged and corrupted due to various reasons. The most common causes of corruption are Dirty shutdown, hardware failure, database file oversize issues, virus attack, human errors and due to application bugs. Such paradigms directly affect the Information Store databases ( Priv.edb and Pub.edb). Well, such kind of problematic situations can be tackled easily through the use of an updated backup or some advance third party Exchange recovery software if the built-in utilities fail. Let us do a general talk on a problematic situation which is faced by Exchange server administrator at an attempt to check the database integrity by executing the inbuilt eseutil commands. Error messages appear to be like this: