23rd November 2009
A compressed NTFS partition can cause several problems, if is made to store Information Store databases. Some of them are high CPU usage, delays when enumerating large NTFS directories and performance issues with many files. It can even corrupt the Inform...
10th November 2009
Circular logging is a Exchange Server feature that implements recycling of logs. Microsoft Exchange Server writes the data to be committed to the database in transaction logs before actually writing it. If circular logging is enabled and four logs have be...
10th November 2009
Transaction log files is the disaster recovery method used by Exchange Server to bring its databases to a consistent state post crash. The current transaction log data for a database is stored in E##.log file, which is further renamed to E#######.log when...
26th October 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server storage groups are consisted of mailbox store and public folder store. Each mailbox store is further made up of database set comprising of two files: Priv.edb and Priv.stm. Similarly, each public folder store database set contain...
26th October 2009
Exchange Server Information Store databases support transaction logging i.e. before committing any data to the database, it is first written to transaction logs. If your database is ever forced to perform recovery, these transaction logs replay and restor...
01st October 2009
An Exchange Server database might fail to mount if it is inconsistent. In such cases, you can use Exchange utilities to repair them. However, if it fails to perform the repair, you need to use your backup or scan the database using an efficient Exchange R...
01st October 2009
In Microsoft Outlook, the Delegate access allows you to share Outlook resources, like appointment schedules, for enhanced coordination across various workgroups and throughout the organization. But in some situations, when you try to access the Delegate t...
01st October 2009
In an EDB (Exchange Server Database) file, the transaction log is s history of activities, executed by the Exchange Server to guarantee the ACID properties over hardware failure or system crash. There are mainly helpful in aces of improper system shutdown...
01st October 2009
Logical corruption in Microsoft Exchange Server database (EDB) is very problematic and quite difficult to identify and repair than physical damage. The administrators and users are generally unaware of logical corruption to EDB file. Microsoft Exchange Se...
23rd September 2009
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and 2007 are advanced versions of MS Outlook. The have different file structure and provide Unicode support and thus do not have file size limitation for PST. For this reason, a number of Outlook users might plan to upgrade f...
23rd September 2009
FBA (Form Based Authentication) is used as a term of art in context of Web or Internet based network computers and in collaborative messaging environment with Exchange Server. It refers to notion of a user being presented with editable form to fill and su...
23rd September 2009
If you are using Microsoft Outlook as your personal email client and information manager, you are using a PST file on your system. PST file is the repository of all your mission critical and precious Outlook data such as emails, notes, contact, tasks and ...
06th September 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server includes the functionality for detecting the file level damage to the pages in EDB database. In case of file level damage, you come across a number of error messages, which prevent you to access the database and thus result into ...
06th September 2009
Database corruption in Microsoft Exchange Server is a very common occurrence. When it happens, the Information Store is one among the most usually affected components. The corruption takes place in generally in Pub1.edb or Priv1.edb files of Microsoft Exc...
06th September 2009
Though mainly used as an email client, Microsoft Outlook allows you to maintain calendar information and keep task reminders as well. Consequently, you can display reminder information at calendar's top as an event or in the calendar itself. At times, you...
