How to get rid of Exchange Dirty Shutdown Problem?

This is a very common problem that every Exchange user has to face.

Symptoms: - Following are the main factors that need to be determined in case of an Exchange System in a Dirty shutdown state.

• Collect the database and the required logs

User must find a copy of the .edb file and needed logs. These logs are required from database perspective and this can be completed by suspending the older database copy, and then copying the needed files to a separate location or creating a snapshot of the volume which can be reverted to at a later time.

Common errors upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Server

Being an Exchange Server user a person knows the importance of EDB file since it work as a store house for the information that is sent and received via Exchange Server side application. And the corruption in this file may lead to a big halt in the fluency of the email communication of the whole organization.

How to say good bye to Exchange Error 1088 & 1005

Exchange server is becoming famous because of its user compatibility but it becomes irritating when you are working very heartily and sudden a error message pop up to disturb you.

It is a very common thing. Take one example of the scenario. Once I got stuck and the following error message appeared on my screen:-

Event ID: 1088
Source: MSExchangeIS
Type: Error
Category: General 

The information store could not be loaded because the distinguished name(DN)of message database
/O=org_name/OU=site_name/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN= does not match the DN of directory
/O=org_name/OU=site_name/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=.