"Internet Information Server metabase appears to be corrupt" Exchange
For the Exchange-related services, MS Exchange Server 2000 and 2003 make use of MS IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services) and all the configuration settings of IIS are stored in the IIS metabase. The constitution of the metabase comprises different settings of a property for different nodes.
Now the IIS metabase corruption is the serious issue in concern. This can lead to many Exchange Server vulnerabilities including that of EDB faults and Exchange-related services disabilities. You may get the following error in this scenario:
?[15:52:34] - The Internet Information Server metabase appears to be corrupt. Please uninstall and reinstall Internet Information Server. -- ID:62145 --
[15:52:34] Prerequisites for Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration Services failed: The component "Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration Services" cannot be assigned the action "Upgrade" because:
- The Internet Information Server metabase appears to be corrupt. Please uninstall and reinstall Internet Information Server.?
This can also be seen when the metabase entries are missing. Now when the IIS metabase is getting corrupt and several of the users perform transaction while, then this can harshly affect the EDB file and erect the inconsistency problems for it. this is the time when you need Exchange Server recovery.
However for correcting the issue of IIS metabase corruption, you can make use of Adsutil.vbs command-line utility to locate the metabase objects anf if you get the following error message then you need to reinstall IIS and Exchange Server:
?-2147221020 (0x800401e4)
Error trying to enum the object (GetObject failed)?
And if you don?t get this one, then this is the case of metabase keys missing.
Reinstalling the application is one other threat to the EDB and hence the proper cure in terms of Exchange Recovery comes in need, if corruption is encountered.
EDB recovery is a sure way through Exchange recovery software which benefit the users through their scanning ability and retrieving ability of each mailbox. These Exchange recovery products come for the different versions of Exchange server and avail the ease of usage through their interactive user interface.
Exchange Server recovery efforts put in by these utilities are tremendous and viable for each specific case of corruption. The read-only nature suggests the safe EDB recovery phenomenon.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery repairs and restores the corrupted EDB file in the most effective manner. This Exchange recovery software uses the most influential algorithms for the same. The software is found to be compatible with Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003. The work of EDB recovery is made quite easy through its interactive user interface. This software saves the recovered data in the PST files, which is usable with MS Outlook.
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