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Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server is one of the many emailing client developed by Microsoft that has arrived with lots of challenging features. MS Exchange Server 2003 extensively supports emailing, managing calendar entries, contacts, tasks, etc. Moreover, it also allows user to access it through mobile and web-based browsers.

However, this amazing tool has not been able to escape the bugs and problems arise due to exceeding file size limit of 16 GB. Entire Server information is accumulated in EDB file, which acquires the possibility of corruption, resulting into disallowing further mounting of Server database. Consequently, the email client fails to start the next time user tries to start it. Another outcome of this fault is the inaccessibility of emails and other related items due to EDB file corruption, which can further lead to loss of significant data. There could be various reasons for such scenarios. Database header corruption, hardware issues, abruptly exiting the Exchange Server, etc. could be few of the many reasons for the corruption of EDB file. However, there are many solutions as well, which can provide access to the emails and other required items. Few of them are listed below:

1.Upgrade the Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack  By this method, you can immediately get the increased database size limit of 18 GB.

2.The other option is to increase the database size by 1 GB temporarily, in case you have the administrative rights. Later you can remover unimportant mails and contents from the database. Further, you must defragment the database to bring it back to the stipulated size limit of the size of the database.

3.Using Recovery Storage Group feature mount the database and then try to extract the EDB from the mailboxes using the Microsoft Exchange Merge Wizard (Exmerge.exe) utility. Although, above-mentioned methods are viable and work very efficiently to provide the accessibility to the emails and further mounting, but requires some time to perform these task. Besides, these methods may not fetch you data lost due to EDB file corruption. If you are unable to address the situation by performing above-mentioned methods, you can opt for third party Kernel for Exchange recovery tool.

These tools are specially designed to recover emails and other data that become inaccessible due to any reason including fault like exceeded the set database file size limit. These professionally built tools perform as EDB repair software that easily resolves the Exchange Server 2003 inaccessibility. These result-oriented tools repair and restore deleted as well as permanently deleted mails from Exchange mailbox folder. Once the recovery is over, the software displays the recovered contents in Red color for easy identificaiton. There are various other features, which make Exchange 2003 recovery software an incredible tool to use. The tool is capable to recover emails, email data, attachments, images, folders, tasks, notes, journals, appointments, sent items, permanently deleted emails, email properties and every other item which is there in the user mailbox.

For users’ convenience, the software also comes with trial version. It allows to repair corrupt EDB file and provides the preview the recovered data. The limitation with this version of Exchange 2003 recovery tool is that you cannot save the recovered items. For that, you will have to buy full version of these software.

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