Stop carrying-on with Error 550

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is collection of communication protocol, which allows user to share information between multiple servers. Today most of the email technology is developed to utilize SMTP while sending e-mails as it is applicable for outgoing messages. The technology involved in SMTP generates a code which makes the communication between servers extremely convenient. The code is basically part of message that is differentiated into various categories which other server can easily understand. The e-mail send by the user involves information about sender/receiver, message heading and body. Considering user’s prospective, they see an interactive interface of the e-mail software. Once the message is on transmission channel, it is divided into multiple strings of text. These texts are related to each other via codes which are specifically dedicated to particular section. On the receiver end, the server software demodulates the codes and display message in a properly sequenced format.  

Recover Exchange database files in few simple steps

The Information Store is vital part of MS Exchange Server. It is specifically used to store crucial data in both Mailbox and Public folder. The Information Store can be looked a database of Exchange Server as it uses database files to manage the stored data efficiently. It must be quite understandable that Information Store holds users important data. Although the files kept in Information Store is always prone to number of threats. Which can severly damage the data that can result in corruption or permanent loss. However the positive side of using Exchange Server is that, these errors can be easily tackled using various recovery techniques.

Ways to backup Exchange database

Microsoft Exchange Server is the most favoured server application only because of simple but effective technology used in it. It has been observed that user generally takes very less time in-order to become fluent in Exchange functionality comparing to other server side application. Basically the file system of Exchange holds two types of files. Priv.edb holds user’s mailbox data and Pub.edb keeps user’s general data. Safety is major aspect of any organisation, it has become utmost priority to secure data in today’s business environment where every transaction or information sharing has become digital. Therefore it is advisable to the user to maintain regular backup of their crucial data to counterattack emergency situation. There are various types of ways by which user can perform backup operation:

Solving “ESE 447 Database corruption” Error in MS Exchange Server

A storage group in MS Exchange Server works as a logical container for databases and transaction log files. Sometimes when you wish to start any of Storage Group,  the error message:  “ESE 447 Database corruption”  appears on the screen. In this situation, when  you try to create a new storage group and move your mailboxes on this, the user mailboxes become inaccessible and you get the same error again.  To resolve the issue it is necessary to look for a Exchange Recovery utility.

Cause:

The reason of this issue may be one of the following:

    * Scanning of Exchange database directory using some antivirus software
    * Some hardware failure problem.

In both of  above causes, You may encounter logical corruption in the exchange database. Due to this corruption the database becomes completely unusable and may shows the below mentioned error message:

“ESE 447 Database corruption”

Resolution:

To fix this issue, you will have to restore your database from the current backup. But if you do not have proper backup, it is recommended to perform Exchange Server recovery with the help of third party tool like Stellar Exchange Recovery, known as EDB recovery software. This exchange database recovery tool perform quick & complete database scanning to repair the .edb file in most corruption cases.

Stellar Phoenix Exchange Mailbox Recovery software is the prominent and comprehensive tool to recuperate the exchange edb file. This powerful  exchange server recovery tool uses advanced technology to scan the corrupt, damaged .EDB file and extract all items from it. 

Troubleshooting Error 'JET_errKeyDuplicate Illegal duplicate key' in Exchange Server

The Exchange database contains all the contacts, emails, file folders and a lot of other user information. There are some corruption problems can occur in Exchange Database file due to antivirus scanning, hardware failure, log file issues, database shutdown, system dirty shutdown etc. To ensure a speedy EDB recovery and smooth functioning of the the server, You need to use Third party Exchange EDB Recovery tool.

Solving Jet Error - "JET_errRecordNotFound,the key was not found" in Exchange Server

When EDB file get corrupted, you can't mount the Exchange database and also unable to access your emails & other items from Exchange server. These situations may occur due to various reasons like suddenly exiting the Exchange Server,corruption in the database header, virus infections and hardware related issues etc.

Such problems can be handled by using in-built eseutil.exe utility. However when edb file is badly corrupted, you may receive Error "JET_errRecordNotFound". In this case the inbuilt utility may fails to perform the expected tasks which makes the database inaccessible and leads to data loss.

In order to solve this problem you need to install the latest service pack of the MS Exchange server. If it does not resolves the issue then it is necessary to use the third-party Exchange Recovery software such as Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery tool to repair and restore the damaged exchange database (EDB) files.

Download the most trusted free EDB repair Software for MS Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010 from http://exchange.stellarservertools.com/

Resolving Event ID 9175 and 486

Sometimes when you try to mount a database on a server that is running Microsoft Exchange Server, and instead receive the following error message:

“An internal processing error has occurred. Try restarting the Exchange System Manager or the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service, or both.
ID no: c1041724
Exchange System Manager”

Additionally, the following event is logged in the Application log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: (14)
Event ID: 9175
Description: The MAPI call ‘OpenMsgStore’ failed with the following error: The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server computer is down for maintenance. The MAPI provider failed. Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store ID no: 8004011d-0526-00000000

or

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE
Event Category: General
Event ID: 486
Description: Information Store (3932) First Storage Group: An attempt to move the file “E:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata\E00.log” to “E:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata\E000080A.log” failed with system error 2 (0×00000002): “The system cannot find the file specified.” The move file operation will fail with error -1811 (0xfffff8ed).

Cause


1. Error 1811 relates to JET_errFileNotFound. This issue may pop up in an Exchange log (E00.log) file that has a mismatching signature and LGeneration. If E00.log file has a mismatching signature, the information store won’t mount even if the databases are consistent.
2. If an anti-virus program quarantines, deletes or interferes the current Exchange log file.

How to Resolve?

To resolve this issue, ensure the anti-virus is not configured to scan the Exchange Server directories. Check the log files of the anti-virus program to verify whether the Exchange log file was quarantined or deleted.

1. If quarantined, recover the Exchange log file by executing the following steps:

a) Recover the Log to folder which contains production files
b) Start MS Exchange Information Store Service. In case other Exchange log files are not missing, the database will mount. In case more log files are found to be missing, check the missing log files in the quarantine folder. If you cannot find the files, follow the next step.

2. If deleted, recover the Exchange log file by following these steps:

a) Move all the inconsistent databases to backup folder
b) In case, new E00.log file is made, move it to the backup folder. Also, move E00.chk and copy the existing files.
c)Rename last E00*.log file as E00.log
d) Restore database from backup.

If you do not have a backup, you must consider using third-party Exchange Server recovery software to bring EDB database files to consistent state.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery extracts inaccessible data from corrupt .edb files and is compatible with Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013.

EDB Recovery to Fix Transport Database Corruption

Are you facing fatal errors while accessing your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 database? Is your EDB (Exchange Server Database) file is inaccessible? The fatal error in Exchange server aborts the application and thus makes it unusable. This behavior of MS Exchange Server renders all your valuable data inaccessible and cause critical data loss situations. In order to get your precious data recovered in such situations, you need to repair and restore the damaged EDB file, using an EDB Recovery solutions.

As an example, MS Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager supervises the MS Windows Application Event log on systems, which are running MS Exchange Server 2007 and returns the below event:

“Product Name: Exchange
Product Version: 8.0 (Exchange Server 2007)
Event ID: 17003
Event Source: MSExchangeTransport
Alert Type: Critical Error
Description: A Transport database operation has encountered a fatal error. The database may be corrupted. The Microsoft Exchange Transport service is shutting down. Manual database recovery or repair may be required.”

After the above error, Microsoft Exchange Server does not let you access your database. At this point, you have to verify the cause of this problem and perform EDB File Recovery by resolving it.

Cause:

The error message below indicates that specified ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) database is damaged. It is preventing MS Exchange Server services from starting.

- ESE, also called JET Blue, is an ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) data storage technology intended by Microsoft. The ESE is particularly used as a key component of the Microsoft Exchange Server and the Active Directory.

How to Fix ESE Corruption:

You can carry out following things to sort out this issue-

1. 
   
   Delete the defined database and corresponding transaction logs. You must not remove the database if you have significant data in the database.
2. 
   
   Repair the damaged database using Isinteg.exe tool or restore it from backup.

However, if none of the above methods helps you to work around the problem, EDB Recovery Tool is the only option to go for. They carry out in-depth scan of entire EDB file using high-end scanning techniques and restore all database objects such as emails, notes, contacts, tasks, and more.

The software enable you to recover corrupt EDB file in a quick and easy way as they are incorporated with simple and self-descriptive graphical user interface. The integrity of your database is always preserved by these tools.

EDB Recovery Software is the most preferred recover EDB solution to repair and restore EDB files in all cases of corruption. The EDB Recovery is designed for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2000, and 5.5.

Checksum Errors on Exchange Server Database Pages

A corrupted or damaged Exchange Server database exhibits abrupt behavior while normal database operations. However, you can deduce the root cause of the issue and sometimes, solution to the problem by application log entries. You should restore the corrupted database from the last backup, if is available and valid. In case of database issues, you are recommended to use EDB Recovery Software to recover the damaged database.
For example, consider you use Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2000. You use Exchange online backup to backup your Information Store database and fail to do so. When you view the application log in Event Viewer, you encounter the below error message:

“Information Store (2240) The database page read from the file "E:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb" at offset 204275712 (0x000000000c2d0000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes failed verification due to a page checksum mismatch. The expected checksum was 303571876 (0x121823a4) and the actual checksum was 303571940 (0x121823e4). The read operation will fail with error -1018 (0xfffffc06). If this condition persists then please restore the database from a previous backup.” 

This error is logged with event ID 474.

Cause

Error 1018 indicates JET_errReadVerifyFailure error. It results because of checksum errors on database pages. The prominent reason for this error to occur is Exchange database corruption due to file system errors. If the disk subsystem is suffering from issues, like defective disk drivers, faulty controller or outdated or incompatible firmware, this could result into Exchange database corruption.  

Solution

You can solve these problems by these methods:

1.Try to perform backup using different storage group located on a different server disk. 2.Diagnose and troubleshoot your Exchange Server running system for possible hardware issues 
3.Update your system with the latest firmware and drivers updates available 
4.If a clean data backup is available, restore your database 
5.Perform hard repair of the database using Eseutil /p in case no suitable backup is present 6.Eseutil /p is a destructive repair operation that could delete the corrupted database pages. To prevent the consequences, you should use safe EDB Recovery utilities. 

EDB Recovery Software are powerful tools to examine, repair and restore damaged Exchange databases using efficient scanning algorithms. These tools provide you graphically rich user interface and advanced features that result complete database repair.


Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is a fully-competent EDB Recovery Software to systematically repair damaged Exchange databases created with Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003. It provides safe EDB Repair and extracts all user mailboxes by converting them into Outlook usable .pst files. The tool can recover all email messages, notes, journals, tasks and other objects.

Resolving Exchange Error: “Database requires log files that could not be located.”

Transaction logging is a disaster recovery procedure of Microsoft Exchange Server that helps the database to get restored in consistent state after any unexpected stop. When the database stops suddenly, it goes to inconsistent state. On next restart, Exchange Server locates and then scans the log files to apply them from the database file. But for any reason if it fails to locate those log files, the recovery attempts fail. This forces you to locate the missing log files manually. However, if it cannot be accomplished, you need to restore the database from a suitable backup or perform Exchange Server Recovery using appropriate database repair procedures.

For each event in Exchange Server, the application logs the associated entry in Windows Application log. So, you might encounter the following error message displaying in this application log, usually after unexpected stop:

"Database requires log files that could not be located. The database requires log files to continue. Make sure the log files exist. Check Event logs for more information."

The event ID of this error in 453 and can cause database to become unmountable.

Cause

Exchange database needs some log files that it could not locate to continue. For further information on which log files could not be located, you can see the event description which mentions the sequence of log files that it could not locate. It also includes the log file number, up to which recovery has been possible.

Some prime reasons that might prevent log files from being located are:
1. The temporary folder doesn't contain the log files. The transaction logs are missing.

2. An anti virus software is running that has quarantined the log file 3. A hardware failure that has caused log files to lose. 

Solution

You need to apply these measures to solve the existing problem:

1. Check if the required log files have been moved. If yes, move them back to the correct folder. But if they have been deleted, you need to restore from the backup.

2. You need to stop the antivirus scanning if any and examine its registry settings to put back the current log files to correct folder.

3. If none of the above measures work, you should restore the database from the backup or apply eseutil repair (hard recovery) utilities to repair the database. Eseutil hard recovery is not safe to use as it deletes the corrupted pages. Thus, you are suggested to use commercial Exchange Recovery utilities as a better option. The Exchange Recovery software are suitable choice to repair corrupted Exchange database using safe, yet effective, scanning algorithms.

Exchange Recovery Software is a powerful EDB Recovery tool that repairs corrupted Exchange database and restores the mailboxes in *.pst files. The Microsoft Exchange Recovery tool supports MS Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, and 2003. The software is easy to install and operable using simple steps that even a non-tech user can understand.

Checksum Errors on Exchange Server Database Pages

A corrupted or damaged Exchange Server database exhibits abrupt behavior while normal database operations. However, you can deduce the root cause of the issue and sometimes, solution to the problem by application log entries. You should restore the corrupted database from the last backup, if is available and valid. In case of database issues, you are recommended to use EDB Recovery Software to repair the damaged database.

For example, consider you use Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2000. You use Exchange online backup to backup your Information Store database and fail to do so. When you view the application log in Event Viewer, you encounter the below error message:  

“Information Store (2240) The database page read from the file "E:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb" at offset 204275712 (0x000000000c2d0000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes failed verification due to a page checksum mismatch. The expected checksum was 303571876 (0x121823a4) and the actual checksum was 303571940 (0x121823e4). The read operation will fail with error -1018 (0xfffffc06). If this condition persists then please restore the database from a previous backup.”

This error is logged with event ID 474.  

Cause

Error 1018 indicates JET_errReadVerifyFailure error.

It results because of checksum errors on database pages. The prominent reason for this error to occur is Exchange database corruption due to file system errors. If the disk subsystem is suffering from issues, like defective disk drivers, faulty controller or outdated or incompatible firmware, this could result into Exchange database corruption.  

Solution

You can solve these problems by these methods:
1.Try to perform backup using different storage group located on a different server disk.
2.Diagnose and troubleshoot your Exchange Server running system for possible hardware issues
3.Update your system with the latest firmware and drivers updates available
4.If a clean data backup is available, restore your database
5.Perform hard repair of the database using Eseutil /p in case no suitable backup is present
6.Eseutil /p is a destructive repair operation that could delete the corrupted database pages.

To prevent the consequences, you should use safe EDB Recovery utilities. EDB Recovery Software are powerful tools to examine, repair and restore damaged Exchange databases using efficient scanning algorithms. These tools provide you graphically rich user interface and advanced features that result complete database repair.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is a fully-competent EDB Recovery Tool to systematically repair damaged Exchange databases created with Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003. It provides safe EDB Repair and extracts all user mailboxes by converting them into Outlook usable .pst files. The tool can recover all email messages, notes, journals, tasks and other objects.