Justin, I want to go on record as saying that no, SP3 did NOT cause these errors - at least in my experience with our farm of Exchange 2k servers and Exchange 5.5 servers.
The only time that we have seen this has been due to a severe corruption of the database (specifically .edb) and a restore to another system and reset of profiles on the user end was the quickest way to resolve. However, I am with Roger - we may be smart folks who give good advice, but I have believe you have a number of folks greatly impacted by this outage. Why would one spend money with PSS (or get the advice for free, even) then wait to implement the fix. This, given the fact that every one of the error messages led to the same conclusion and fix? I'd get your most recent GOOD backup and start restoring. Your users are going to appreciate it. Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT Microsoft MVP - Active Directory Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@;mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of > Salandra, Justin A. > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:25 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange -1018 Error > > > David I have already looked at these but thank you > > -----Original Message----- > From: David N. Precht [mailto:discussions@;entrysecurity.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange -1018 Error > > http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=116&source= > http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=118&source= > http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=200&source= > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@;mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of > Salandra, Justin A. > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 08:59 > To: ActiveDir (E-mail) > Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange -1018 Error > > > Hello everyone, > > I know this is off topic but you guys and girls always give > good advice. > > I have been getting event Ids 116, 118 and 200 a lot in my > application log. > > The chain of events went like this > > I installed SP3 for W2K > The next day the Exchange Database went through some type of > conversion and logged Event ID 174 hundreds of times > (Table/Column/Index > Definintions) On that same day one of my Hard Drives in my > RAID 5 Config failed, I replaced it 3 days later Since then > every time the online maintenance on the exchange database > ran it logged a Database Page Cache error (Event ID 116 and > 118 and 200) And now ArcServe cannot backup the database > fully and commit the logs to the database so I now have 500 > log files in my mdbdata directory. > > MS Support wants me to restore from the day the HD failed > after I rename the mdbdata directory and create a new one. > Then they want me to copy in all the log files and wait for > the log files to replay into the database. The only other > option is to do a eseutil or build a new server and migrate > everyone over. > > Have any of you done what MS is recommending? Do any of you > feel that this is the way to go? Does anyone know what would > of caused these errors, was it SP3 or was it the HD Failure? > > Any help is appreciated > > > Justin A. Salandra, MCSE > Senior Network Engineer > Catholic Healthcare System > 914.681.8117 office > 646.483.3325 cell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:jasalandra@;chcsnet.org> > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > > > List info : > http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : > http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/