Microsoft Exchange Server is a widely used and reliable method of creating a messaging collaborative environment. But in some cases, the Exchange Server Database (EDB) file may get damaged and you come across critical data loss situations. To handle the corruption situations, Exchange Server provides an inbuilt utility- Eseutil /p. It handles majority of EDB corruption situations and let you easily perform Exchange Server Recovery in quick way.

The Eseutil /p is repair method for Microsoft Exchange Server. This procedure corrects most of the EDB corruption like issues and thus allows you to access your data. This utility works on ESE (Extensive Storage Engine) and the page level, not on the application level. Repair process goes through database and examines damaged pages and critical structures of database. After you perform application level repair, using Isinteg tool is required.

Though, it is useful and effective tool, but the utility has a number of limitations that restrict its use in some situations. Some common situations are as underwritten:

1. The biggest disadvantage of this utility is that it removes the damaged pages that it can not repair. In this case, you may lose your critical emails, calendar entries, appointments, contacts and other data from the EDB file.

2. This tool needs clean shutdown of your system to process. In case of dirty system shutdown, it does not work and can not repair the damaged database.

3. Incorrect procedures performed while using this tool may lead to severe corruption and make all of your critical files difficult to repair.

Limitations of this this tool shows that its applications would not carry out successful Exchange Recovery, if you try it in critical situations of corruption. If the database is not repaired completely, it could be disastrous to use it.

In such situations, it is required to use any alternative method to repair damaged EDB file. The alternative method comes in the form of Exchange Server Recovery applications that repairs entire damaged file without altering original data from it.

The tools use high-end scanning techniques to methodically scan entire EDB file and extract all of the damaged objects like emails, notes, contacts, tasks, attachments etc. from it. The Exchange Recovery software are built-with simple and interactive graphical user interface and thus do not alter original data of the Exchange Server database.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the best ever made Exchange Recovery Tool to repair damaged EDB files. It works well with Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003. It repairs and restores all of the EDB file objects in most of the EDB corruption situations.