Repair a single mailbox corruption in Exchange 2010 SP1 without dismounting the whole database
This post applies to Exchange 2010 SP1
There are times when only a user or two face issues accessing, viewing or deleting emails, whereas all the others have no issues. You disconnect the old mailbox and create a new one for the user and if that works we usually follow one of the two below mentioned steps:
Or, if you have Exchange 2010 patched with SP1, you can make use of the "New-MailboxRepairRequest" cmdlet to repair the corrupt mailbox. There won't be any downtime as the only mailbox which won't be accessible is the one being repaired. It repairs the logical corruption in the mailbox at the application level. Definitely worth a try before you do the above mentioned steps.
Syntax:
Following is an example to repair Akash's mailbox for all types of corruption:
There are times when only a user or two face issues accessing, viewing or deleting emails, whereas all the others have no issues. You disconnect the old mailbox and create a new one for the user and if that works we usually follow one of the two below mentioned steps:
- Export the old data in PST (Outlook running in cached mode), disconnect the old mailbox and create a new one. Re-import the PST into the new mailbox. This method involves some manual work on client machine.
- Unmount the whole database and run isinteg (Information Store Integrity Checker) to fix corruption in database at application level. This method involves downtime.
Or, if you have Exchange 2010 patched with SP1, you can make use of the "New-MailboxRepairRequest" cmdlet to repair the corrupt mailbox. There won't be any downtime as the only mailbox which won't be accessible is the one being repaired. It repairs the logical corruption in the mailbox at the application level. Definitely worth a try before you do the above mentioned steps.
Syntax:
New-MailboxRepairRequest -Mailbox <MailboxIdParameter> -CorruptionType <MailboxStoreCorruptionType[]> [-Archive <SwitchParameter>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DetectOnly <SwitchParameter>] [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]
Following is an example to repair Akash's mailbox for all types of corruption:
New-MailboxRepairRequest -Mailbox Akash -CorruptionType ProvisionedFolder,SearchFolder,AggregateCounts,Folderview
For more information about "New-MailboxRepairRequest" refer to the following technet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff625226.aspx
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