July 22, 2002 09:22 PM

Eseutil: Handle with Care

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How to use this helpful, but potentially dangerous, tool
In a past career, I drove a forklift. However, this wasn't just any forklift—it was large enough to lift a 10-ton cargo pallet 20' off the ground and load that pallet into the side of a military transport aircraft. The forklift was a great labor saver, but I had to be careful while driving it because my carelessness could have caused a lot of damage. There's an Exchange equivalent to that big forklift: the useful, but dangerous, Eseutil tool. At times, no other tool will do, but if you're careless with Eseutil, you can easily lose some or all of your data.

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Well written. Warnings of using eseutil was good idea.

Anonymous User 5/5/2005 6:14:43 AM


It's a word man! See the George Bush English dictionary.

Anonymous User 1/8/2005 3:46:15 PM


Compulsorary?

Anonymous User 12/30/2004 2:08:59 PM


Use Powercontrols from Ontrack. Allows you to open the priv.edb file and manually copy whatever you want from it to either a PST or another priv.edb. I shouldnt have wasted our companys cash on Backupexecs exchange license all you need is this program and the priv.edb file. Obviously the pub.edb would help, but not compulsorary.

Chris Reynolds 6/11/2004 9:12:50 AM


Hi and Help

I'm having problems restoring the IS and DS to a server on a private network running Exchange 5.5 service pack 4. The private network simulates EXACTLY the setup from which the restorable IS/DS had been backed up (incidentally via Veritas' BE version 7.3).Naturally I can't restore to the live system and further I'm only trying to recover a few deleted mailboxes!!. Needless to add the IS/DS restore runs without error. I can see the appropriate PRIV & PUB edb's plus the host of edbxxxxxx type files.

The problem arises when running up the IS/DS. Initially the DS gave error 1067 and failed but applying the workround suggested in Base Article 247769 corrected that particular problem and DS starts ok.!!

However running up the IS fails with error 1053 but I can't find any Base Articles although I've traced that particular error to ESE97 problems viz

-1053 0xFFFFFBE3 JET_errNullKeyDisallowed Null keys are disallowed on index 4294966243


I've reluctantly, as you advise, avoided using ESEUTIL yet, in any form, but feel I'm going to have to bite the bullet!
I'm not too concerned about screwing Exchange up as I've rebuilt it and then restored it a number of times already, but I realise I'm badly in need of some divine intervention or perhaps the advice of an expert such as yourself.

Any polite and constructive advice will be graciously and thankfully received.
May I add I'm becoming pretty desperate!

Regards all,



Mike Llewellyn 4/20/2004 8:44:34 AM


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