Exchange Error 550 Introduction & solution

MS Exchange Server is the most preferred emailing server that facilitates online as well as offline email access. To access online, one can use OWA that stands for Outlook Web Access and to work in offline or cached exchange mode, MS Outlook can be used. 

On Exchange Server, users’ mailbox data including emails, calendar, contacts, and other valuable data including all public folders are stored in EDB files. Well, a single exchange database may have a number of EDB files, which is actually dependent on the number of users in a common domain. 

However, the administrator must be aware of the fact that the EDB files are delicate and may lead to corruption anytime due to virus attacks, dirty computer shutdown, or any other technical issue. 

Guide to run Eseutil.exe and Isinteg.exe Exchange utilities

For an organization where Exchange Server is in use, Exchange data is the most crucial aspect to take care. Because of indefinite number of reasons, Exchange data can meet to corruption at any time; for that instance, Microsoft provides default tools to safeguard the health of Exchange Information Store.

Exchange administrators can use Eseutil.exe and Isinteg.exe utilities to repair damaged Exchange data. Both the above discussed tools Eseutil.exe and Isinteg.exe are inbuilt tools and responsible for performing Exchange database recovery from the corrupt Exchange Server. However to use Eseutil and Isinteg utilities, one has to dismount the Exchange database from the Exchange Server.

Eseutil.exe – Eseutil is a tool that performs offline defragmentation of Exchange database. When Exchange database gets corrupt then Exchange user can use this tool to restore data from backup file. It is basically a command-line tool that works with ESE (Extensible Storage Engine) database files and log files of Exchange Server. 

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.  

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:

System Attendant Service and Error 1053: Could not start the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service

When Exchange Server is installed, many background processes are also installed. These background processes are called services. Many of these services can get started automatically by Service Control Manager when OS is launched, while some need manual intervention. Services run independently from any application. Many Exchange components are implemented as services and many need services to perform successfully.  One of the Exchange Server services is System Attendant service.

How to do Exchange server recovery from error:-Error - 1022='JET_errDiskIO' = Disk I/O Error

Exchange database (EDB) files are designed to store all the information and folders. Exchange database is the bonanza of all types of data. Corruption in Exchange database may affect smoothness of working or may be due to this Exchange server may refuse to open. Your each and every effort to access database or user mailbox has to face failure since database is damaged due to some unexpected cause. In layman language these cause are called errors. To ignore these errors or to make Exchange database recoverable you can use previous backup file to mount all essential data again on Exchange server.