Re: Information Stores won't mount
From: Erik Rossou (erik_at_xxxrossou.nl)
Date: 01/06/05
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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:42:38 +0100
Seth,
Thanks for the help.
I deleted the edb and stm file. Then tried to mount the Mailbox Store. Like
you said it reported the missing files, and created new ones. I never new it
would be this easy.
Erik
"seth" <me@myhouse.com> wrote in message
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> well, i'd say you got nothing to lose since you say the store hasn't been
> used and has no mail in it
> the first thing i'd do is remove the mail properties from each user; that
> way AD won't have any info about mailboxes for any user
> not sure if you will have any problems with the store dismounted.
> theoretically you wouldn't since if the store would to come back up, it
> would just report in esm that the mailbox just isn't associated with a
> user account.
> if you get past that, then just go in esm and delete the store and create
> a new one. it will automatically create the edb and stm files for you,
> then you can go in to ad for each user and recreate the mailboxes and
> aliases
>
> "Erik Rossou" <erik@xxxrossou.nl> wrote in message
> news:OY%23Ie038EHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>A cry for help from an Exchange novice.
>>
>> I admit, I made some terrible mistakes. But hopefuly with your help I
>> will
>> be able to recover. Here is my story
>>
>> I got single new hardware-platform to replace 2 aging servers (one for
>> Exchange and one for IIS). I decided to use this new hardware platform
>> for
>> running both Microsoft Exchange 2003 and about 20 websites using IIS6. I
>> made my life easy by deciding that we would not migrate anything from the
>> old Exchange server to the new one (no data and no settings).
>>
>> I first installed Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange 2003 + SP1.
>> Then I manually re-created the 5 user accounts in Active Directory with
>> in
>> total about 50 e-mail aliases. I then moved on installing additional
>> software tools without checking my Exchange installation. Big mistake as
>> was
>> proven afterwards, because now I don't know whether the Exchange
>> installtion
>> was fully functional at that time.
>>
>> I then installed about 20 websites of which 3 have a web-application that
>> also uses the Jet-engine to access the application's repository.
>>
>> At that point I moved the Exchange databases to a new directory (again
>> without checking if the move went well). Don't ask me why I didn't check
>> that (I feel stupid enough as it is!). I guess I was over-confident all
>> went
>> well.
>>
>> On top of that I had a power failure on the Dell PowerEdge.
>>
>> Now my problem:
>>
>> 1. Exchange won't mount the Mailbox Stores suggesting that I restart the
>> Exchange IS service which I did, but that did not solve the problem
>>
>> 2. The Microsoft Knowledge Base tells me to use Eseutil. Eseutil tells me
>> that the database is in a 'Dirty Shutdown' mode. It suggests that I use
>> Eseutil to repair the priv1.edb file. I tried but Eseutil then complains
>> that it can't do the repair because 'the database was created using an
>> incompatible (likely older) version of the Jet database engine'. I have
>> got
>> no clue how the Jet engine version got changed somewhere in between.
>>
>> 3. I then downloaded and ran SP8 for the Jet engine hoping to solve the
>> problem, but no luck.
>>
>> 4. I then re-installed Exchange 2003 and also reinstalled SP1, no luck
>> again
>>
>> Now my proposed solution:
>> The Exchange database holds no e-mail, because it has never been used so
>> far. I assume all account details (user accounts and e-mail aliases are
>> stored in AD).
>>
>> Won't the easiest solution be to just discard the damaged Exchange
>> edb-files
>> and stm-files (both for the Mailbox Store and the Public Folder Store)
>> and
>> somehow re-create these from scratch?
>>
>> Any suggestions on my proposed solution? And ofcourse a suggestion on how
>> to
>> re-create the edb-files and stm-files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Erik
>>
>>
>> p.s. This has been a great learning experience
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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