Exchange 2003 Information Store is Corrupt - Suggestions please

[JasonDoran]

We have a number of Exchange server in our organisation (Exch 5.5, 2000 + 2003). We have a problem on one of our 2003 and one of our 2000 Exchange Servers, whereby the Information Store has become corrupted. We have run eseutil and isinteg with various switches without fantastic results.

Does anyone know of any tools that may be able to de-corrupt our Information Store?????

Thanks

 

[johnny99]

I would stop all exchange services.
Take a full backup of the exchange installation.
Restore the information store and try to do a forward recovery on the exchange system. This should hopefully bring you back online.
I have never tried to do this in "real life" so if I would be in this situation I would call someone that has done this before.

/johnny

 

[Zelandakh]

if you don't have too many users, exmerge the lot and blow the server.

otherwise you'll need to use eseutil and/or isinteg to get the consistency then replay the log files.

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