There could be many reasons why you need to restore a database. Let’s look at some common reasons. The server has been re-installed, after failure. The database gets corrupted or is not mounting.

An Exchange Server holds data in databases (EDB files). The EDB files, which are proprietary of Microsoft, are accompanied by transaction logs. Although the server and its configuration are important, ...

I'm curious what would happen if we had to restore our Exchange database from a backup and it was say 8 hours behind, meanwhile our Outlook clients are in cached mode with new data that Exchange ...

When it comes to recovery from an Exchange Server crash, failure, or database corruption, backups play an important role. So, it is important to define a proper backup and recovery strategy to ensure ...

For this blog post, I’m going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept ...

It looks like I've inherited a problem. During the snowstorm a power issue caused corruption in a few VHD's, and one of them was an exchange server. Unfortunately, we did not have backups of the VHD's ...

Symantec Corp. – Microsoft Exchange has become the de facto application for business communication today. Exchange servers house everything from confidential records, to intellectual property, to key ...