Exchange Guru Needed

Are these files still in check:

\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA

As far as I know that files needs to be there for the store to mount
 
The event log entries you want will be the ones for the store. Try mounting the store. Then check application event log, and look for those store message. Look up the event IDs. The MS Knowledgebase is well-populated with information about store failures. Go through them. You will probably need to run eseutil, with /r, /g or /p; the articles will say which. If you have to, you move can logs out and run a repair, but that should be a last resort as it can take ages.
 
Exchange is a solid product, but when things goes ugly, you need a lot of guts, good luck and time.

And a good backup to recover from :)
 
Anyone know of a company that deals with these issues in the cape town area, i dont have the time or patience for exchange?
 
AmonRe you have a corrupt Jet database. You need to run a eseutil repair but you will need at least 30GB (100% of DB & stream file size) free drive space. I've done this myself many times before. It takes ages but it will work. One thing before you start, backup the entire exchange folder first. When last did you get a good backup? You could restore the last backup to new hardware then exmerge but that would be my LAST resort.

Good luck!
 
@ AmonRe - Just wondering, what is the server and hardware specs the Exchange server is running on?

Please do tell me you're using RAID5 or RAID6...

What MadMailMan said - you will need to run eseutil, I have done it myself to defragment the Exchange DB, it takes a long while and needs enough hard drive space for defragmentation.
 
JUGGY said:
The repair HDD space can also be a mapped drive to another server. Done this before on a 320GB exchange store.
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Yeah, but that can be friggin' slow! Done that before too.

320GB...scary stuff. A nightmare to recover from.
 
JUGGY said:
The repair HDD space can also be a mapped drive to another server. Done this before on a 320GB exchange store.
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It's not recommended, but can be done.

Also done that.

Scary stuff...

If I remember correctly, you can copy the defrag utils over to another PC running win2k3 and fix the DB from there... (after copying the DB over as well) - but this I won't recommend, best is to do it on the Exchange PC rather.
 
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The_Librarian said:
Who still uses Exchange 5.5?
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I still look after an Exchange 5.5 server. Can't get rid of it because of some custom written workflow thing. Can't wait to flick that switch!!!:D

Now if only one of my clients had Exchange 5.0 then I would support ALL versions of Exchange. :cool:
 
AmonRe said:
Hi all i am desperate need of an exchange guru, one of my clients exchange servers wont mount the store, i have gone through everthing i can find with regards to the error messages and no joy! i have run a offline defrag for 3 days hangs at just before 10% and no joy ran a repair for a day gets stuck at Deleting unicode fixup table. i have no idea what to do!!!!
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AmonRe did you come right with this naughty child?
 
Try the following methods in this order ....

1. Eseutil /p “d:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb”

2. Isinteg –s eb-srv-01 –fix –test alltests
 
Asha'man X said:
It could be that ISA server is somehow interfering with Exchange. I've read up a bit about ISA in the past, and it seems that all the legendary ISA gurus stress that you should not mix the 2 on the same server if humanly possible.

However, that doesn't appear to be the case here. Without the store being mounted, you can't run ExMerge to extract data either.

Good luck, hope you get somewhere.
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Never seen ISA conflict with Exchange.SBS 2003 has exchange and ISA all installed on 1 box and never gives issues
 
AmonRe said:
Hi all i am desperate need of an exchange guru, one of my clients exchange servers wont mount the store, i have gone through everthing i can find with regards to the error messages and no joy! i have run a offline defrag for 3 days hangs at just before 10% and no joy ran a repair for a day gets stuck at Deleting unicode fixup table. i have no idea what to do!!!!
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an offline defrag will only run if the exchange databases are error free.You need to get the databases fixed before the defrag can be done
 
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