Exchange Server

Silent Index Corruption in Exchange Server and Exchange Server Recovery

When you move the Exchange Server database to a system that doesn’t have the same LCID (Locale ID) and then attempt to defragment the same, it might report an index corruption. On the other hand, if you load the accurate Locale on the server, and then attempt to defragment the database, it won’t report the index corruption.

? A LCID is a 32-bit value defined by the Microsoft Windows which consists of a sort ID, language ID, and reserved bits which identify the particular language. For instance, the LCID of English language is 1033 and for Japanese is 1041.

After this situation, you won’t be able to access data from Exchange Server.

Grounds of the trouble

If the database is moved between computers having the different LCID installation status, there is potential for the silent database index corruption. For instance:

? If an LCID which was formerly uninstalled is then reinstalled, there is possibility of silent index corruption.

? If the Exchange Server database is copied to a different computer, de-fragmented, and after that copied back to the original computer. It might also cause index corruption.

It is the crucial database corruption problem which leads to the inaccessibility of EDB file and thus cause data loss.

Workaround

To fix this problem, you need to obtain the latest service pack of the Microsoft Exchange Server. The service pack could be downloaded from the Microsoft’s website.

Installing the latest service pack of the Exchange Server will fix this problem and it won’t occur in future but it could not work around the corruption. The corrupted database indexes will still remain corrupted, even after up-gradation.

In such situations, the ultimate solution is to repair the damaged indexes. It is possible through the Exchange Server Recovery software. Exchange Server Recovery software are the powerful third party applications which are capable of attending almost all of the EDB corruption issues.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Desktop is the most influential and the fabulous EDB repair software. This software is very handy and comes equipped with the interactive and intuitive user interface with rich graphical support.

Perfect scanning of the corrupted EDB file is performed by this software to ensure absolute Exchange Server Recovery. Using this Exchange recovery software, you can repair and restore all of the Exchange Server database objects including mails, notes, contacts, calendar entries and many alike.