Can I ‘Shrink’ My Exchange Database?
KB ID 0001706 Problem Saw this asked in a forum today, and my response was; It never gets smaller, if you delete things out of it, it just creates more ‘whitespace’ within the database, unless you; a) Take it offline, and defragment it using eseutil. b) Move the mailboxes out of it, to another database and delete it. Which is true, but even Microsoft say you should not need to defragment a database! Before you do anything...
Exchange – Unable to Mount Stores (log file missing)
KB ID 0000348 Problem Exchange fails to mount a database and complains, with an error like the one below when you try and mount it manually. Error: Mailed to mount database ‘ database name’ Error: Exchange is unable to mount the database that you specified. Specified database {your server name}{path to database}{database name}; Error code: MapiExeptionCallFailed: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005, ec=1032) You may...
ESEUTIL error – “Unable to find the callback library jcb.dll”
KB ID 0000530 Problem Seen when trying to execute an eseutil command on an Exchange database: Error: Callback DLL not found Unable to find the callback library jcb.dll (or one of its dependencies). Copy in the file and hit OK to retry or hit Cancel to abort. Solution 1. Download this zip file, and extract the jcb.dll to the “bin” directory on your Exchange server, then click OK to continue and eseutil will complete....
Exchange 2003 – Defragmenting Your Database with Eseutil
KB ID 0000814 Problem I don’t have many clients left that still have Exchange 2003, so this will probably be the last time I have to do this (famous last words). Exchange databases NEVER get smaller, if you delete information out of them, it simply creates white space, that Exchange will reuse, (so they will steadily grow in size). Before you carry out this procedure, get your users to clear down their mailbox’s. Also...