MS Exchange Server is the most powerful and reliable tool to provide an efficient communication environment. It uses a database file to store user information. Exchange Server has different mailboxes for each individual user which users access with their email client like MS Outlook. Just like other databases, it also faces the heat of corruption and gets corrupted due to many known and unknown reasons such as Exchange server failure, virus attack and some human errors etc. When corruption occurs, the EDB file becomes totally unusable and you may encounter a serious data loss situation. You also get some irritating error messages when you try to access the data in this corrupted EDB file. In these situations, users cannot access their mailboxes through MS Outlook. To gain access to all user data in Outlook, you need to repair EDB file by performing EDB to PST conversion using some perfect tools of EDB PST Converter.
Causes of Exchange Database Corruption:
Although there are many reasons for EDB corruption, let us take a look at the most prominent causes of corruption:
- JET engine errors
- Due to virus attacks
- Exchange server error code 528
- Hardware failure errors
- Server crash or crash
- File header corruption
- Deleted log files
- Dirty shutdown due to power rush
- due to update
- Logical corruption of the Exchange database
- Due to some human errors
- Deleting User Boxes
EDB file corruption can make you panic because it stores important emails, contacts, notes, tasks, journals, drafts, attachments, calendar items, etc. of hundreds of users and after corruption you will not be able to access these items.
Solution:
Whatever the trigger, the consequences of exchange database corruption can be devastating, and recovery is not instantaneous. To combat this corruption situation, Microsoft provides some free utilities, called Eseutil.exe, Exmerge.exe and Export-Mailbox. These tools convert EDB to PST and extract users’ mailboxes in .PST file format. However, in case of severe corruption, these tools may fail. The best way to deal with this situation is to use some advanced third party EDB to PST Converter software.
The new and updated Stellar Phoenix Exchange Recovery tool is designed with an extensive scanning algorithm that scans the entire exchange database. This EDB PST The tool will successfully convert all your inaccessible EDB file data into .PST (Personal Storage) file format which can be directly imported into MS Outlook and you can access the same using Microsoft Outlook. Comprehensive EDB Recovery software is compatible with MS Exchange Server 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 and 5.5.
