Is your Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 system behaving unusually? Are you unable to start various Exchange Server services? Is your EDB (Exchange Server Database) inaccessible? Such behavior indicate Exchange Server database corruption, which may occur due to a wide range of reasons, ranging from simple user mistake to catastrophic system crash. It leads to critical data loss and needs Exchange Recovery to access your mission critical data.

Consider,

A) You get Event ID 7011 while working on Exchange Server.

B) The SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service on Exchange Server computer stops responding or terminates improperly.

C) System freezes when you run - IISADMIN, W3SVC, IMAP4SVC, RESVC, and POP3SVC services. You need to restart your computer when it occurs.

D) The services fail to stop when you try to stop and restart them.

E) You may encounter error messages, similar to the followings:

i. Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the RESVC service.

ii. Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the IISADMIN service.

iii. Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the W3SVC service.

This behavior of Microsoft Exchange Server renders your valuable data inaccessible. In order to get your Exchange Server data back, you need to first identify the root cause of this problem and then fix it with Microsoft Exchange Recovery.

Grounds of the issue

You may come across this behavior of Microsoft Exchange Server due to any of the below reasons:

1. A message is received by the MS Exchange Server 2000 system, which has a damaged time stamp.

2. The message has an invalid FILETIME attribute.

3. Exchange Server database is corrupted due virus infection, improper system shutdown, and application crash situations.

Resolution

Microsoft has a hotfix for this problem. You can download it from Microsoft's website and install it on your MS Exchange Server computer. However, it can not fix the database corruption problem and the database remains inaccessible. In order to solve database corruption, Exchange Server Recovery is needed.

You can easily repair and restore damaged EDB file using Exchange Recovery Software. They are powerful enough to systematically scan the whole database and extract all damaged mailboxes from it. They extracts all the mailbox objects such as emails, notes, contacts, tasks, calendar entries, and more.

Exchange Server Recovery is an easy-to-use and safe exchange database recovery application for insured recovery of damaged database. The software works well with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2000, and 5.5. It also recovers deleted Exchange Server mailboxes.