Information Store Server Error in Exchange Server
When you attempt to start "Information Store Server" of your Exchange Server, you may receive the following error message:
“The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service returned service specific error 4294966274.”
After this exasperating error message, the below given entries are engendered in the Event log:
Event ID: 31
Source: EDB
Type: Error
Category: Logging/Recovery
Description: MSExchangeIS (313). Unable to read the log header. Error -1022.
Event ID: 1120
Source: MSExchangeIS
Type: Error
Category: General
Description: Error -1022 initializing the Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store database.
After this trouble, you won’t be able to access anything from your Exchange Server. All of your mailboxes will become out of your reach.
Grounds of the trouble
There are three following possible reasons of this grave trouble:
Corrupt Microsoft Exchange Server Transaction Log file
Potential hardware issues
Corrupt Exchange Server Database (EDB) file
Regardless the cause of the trouble, the final result is the inaccessibility of your precious data thus resulting into data loss.
Resolution
According to the problems, there are three basic solutions:
If problem is due to Exchange Server Transaction Log file corruption, restart Information Store Service.
If it is due to hardware, repair it.
If the problem is due to EDB corruption, perform Exchange Server Recovery.
Exchange Server Recovery is possible with third party applications known as EDB recovery software. EDB recovery software perform Exchange Server repair is most of the situations of EDB corruption.
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