Troubleshooting Error 1018 in Exchange Server

Similar to other software, occurrence of the errorfaulty then this may acknowledge a complete
messages is not an exception in the Exchangeoperation but in actual this may not have been
Server. Few of them are indicative of thedone properly and thus leading to the database
database corruption while few of them just showcorruption.
a mere malfunction, fixable through the simpleThe mentioned error message is a result of the
procedures. But those which show the corruptionun-matching of the checksum value of the page
in the Exchange server need a help of Exchangeheader to that being returned by the READ call,
Server recovery and one of such log error iswhen some database operation related to reading
mentioned below:the data is performed.
Event ID: 23Solution
Source: EDBTo combat the present situation, Microsoft has
Type: Errorsuggested to restore from the last backup or to
Category: Database Page Cacheuse the Edbutil.exe utility. Some of the users may
Description: MSExchangeIS ((455)) Direct readfind it hard or even impossible to adopt the
found corrupted page error -1018 ((1:251563)mentioned solution in case if the backup is not
(0-2295758), 251563 379225672 381322824).complete and the vulnerabilities attached to the
Please restore the database from a previousincorrect usage of the utility. So the last option
backup.left out is to have exchange server recovery via
This error message is related to the JETthe help of specialized software.
database operation, on which the MS ExchangeThese software are termed as Exchange
Server like products has been built, which resultsrecovery software and perform the EDB repair
into 1018 (JET_errReadVerifyFailure) error.without any regard to the cause of the
Root of the Problemcorruption. The software run the most powerful
This problem is encountered when somealgorithms to scan the corrupted EDB file and
transactions are made. During this the informationthen end up at Exchange Server recovery at the
store of the Exchange Server writes thesemaximum.
transactions to a transaction log file prior to it isStellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the
committed to the database. A value called page'smost developed and advanced utility which is
checksum value is calculated which is aimed to beapplicable in each case of corruption. This EDB
written in the page header.recovery software can be used for Microsoft
After this a request is made to the file system toExchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
write the data on the disk, which is againThe software comes packed with an easy to use
forwarded to the hardware device driver. Aninterface which makes the functioning of the
acknowledgement is sent to the file system thensoftware quite easier. You can have Exchange
on completion of the job. At this point of time, ifrecovery for any type of messages, contacts,
some hardware device driver or hardware istasks and other Exchange Server objects.