First about ESEUTIL
You
only need to run ESEUTIL /p just once in in repair mode in order to get final
results, running it more than once does nothing and here is
why.
Eseutil scans the database looking at the data sections. Exchange
databases are totally blocked and divided into 4Kb pages of all its
data. Each 4K page has a checksum, meaning there are a certain number
of zeros and ones that belong to that record that should exist
according to the checksum. Eseutil checks all 4K pages to match the
listed checksum for that page. If any one 4k page does not
match the checksum it deletes the entire 4K page regardless if the record
is related to a single email, or multiple emails that contain data inside that
4k page. Think about what its doing, its randomly blowing away data and
doesn't care what the data was used for. For this reason unless you know
exactly what you need eseutil for, DO NOT RUN IT! try the soft repair /r
or run isinteg first.
Ok
so how do you get ride of incomplete data inside a database like an
entire mailbox?
Once
eseutil is ran you must repair the broken links to the data that no longer
exsits or now only partially exists. For exmaple if a 4k page is removed
from a 1mb email, even though the remainder of that email still
exists, that email is gone forever. You must run a different
utility to tell the database that part of that email has been removed and to
go ahead and remove the rest of that email so that user's mailbox functions
correctly. This is what isinteg does. It re-establishes pointers
and corrects incomplete email chunks that ESEUTIL
/P causes. So if there is something corrupted about a mailbox
eseutil will remove the corruption and ISINTEG will fix the mailbox so that it
is accessible again. Then you can safely deleted it normally. If
you cannot there may be a problem with the header of the database that eseutil
broke. Once this happens the only thing you can do is use exmerge to
copy out all of the data from the database, create a new database file name
after renaming the old in case something goes wrong, mount the
new and use exmerge to put the data back.
Isinteg must be ran as many times as it takes such that no more errors
exitsts. Isinteg is the real repair tool here and is the only thing that
can correct broken mailboxes and invalid pointers to records like emails and
the location of a mailbox and why or why not it should be deleted from the
database.
My
suggestion is run ISINTEG with the alltests switch on the database and keep
running it if it reports errors until they are all gone. Then you should
be able to remove that mailbox normally.
I
have very similar problem. If I run Consistency adjuster the mailbox is
restored after being deleted.
I'm using NAV and it notice that can't
protect mailbox "Aaron"
I checked that there aren't user use this
mailbox.
I used ESEUTIL /g then /p and it show that
mailbox "Aaron" error and try to repair but I run ESEUTIL several
times and this error is still exits.
I try to create a new user with name "Aaron"
but I can login to this mailbox (use Outlook98 on desktop).
Now I have to create a user "Aaron" so I have
to delete old mailbox permanent
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:18
AM
Subject: RE: How to remove
permanent mailbox
>>When I use
ESEUTIL to check the database
Check the database for
what?
>>I use ESEUTIL to fix it but it not
done.
What makes you think it is
broken?
Delete the mailbox. Delete the
user. Done. There are objects assicated with that user
that are still associated with other users that still exist.
Hello
I'm using WinNT4SP6.0a and Ex5.5
SP4.
I deleted an user "Aaron" on
Exchange and it really deleted in Recipients and mailbox.
When I use ESEUTIL to check the database
of Priv.edb it show that the mailbox "Aaron" is exits but it error. I
use ESEUTIL to fix it but it not done.
How can I remove permanent this user? Pls
help me.
Thanks
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