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Analyzing and Resolving -1018, -1019 and -1022 Errors in Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server includes the functionality for detecting the file level damage to the pages in EDB database. In case of file level damage, you come across a number of error messages, which prevent you to access the database and thus result into critical data loss situations. In these cases, you need to repair and restore the damaged database by carrying out Exchange Recovery solutions.

When the file level damage occurs in Microsoft Exchange Server database, several error messages might occur. Following three are the most common error messages, which occurs in these situations:

-1018 JET_errReadVerifyFailure

-1019 JET_errPageNotInitialized

-1022 JET_errDiskIO

The below three levels of corruption could take place in any Microsoft Exchange Server database (EDB file):

Page level damage (file system)

Database level damage (JET database engine)

Application level damage (Exchange information store)

In order to carry out Exchange Repair in all these cases of database corruption, Microsoft Exchange Server offers three different utilities. To detect and repair page level damage, you can use Esefile.exe tool. Eseutil.exe utility is helpful for detecting and repairing issues at both the database level and page level. The application level issues can effectively be handled with the help of Isinteg.exe tool.

Damage at the page level (lower level) mostly cause issues at higher levels (the application or database level). Thus, after repairing an Exchange Server database using Eseutil.exe tool, you are required to use Isinteg.exe tool afterward.

Corruption at the application and database levels is related to the problems in Exchange Server code or in the third party applications, which integrate with Microsoft Exchange Server. The page level corruption is resulted generally by the firmware, driver or hard drive issues. Sometimes, it may also caused by issues in Exchange Server.

Though, this is extremely difficult to completely prevent and correct all sorts of damaged, but it is somewhat easy to detect an issues that has happened. Error -1018 and -1019 are reported if Exchange Server detects misplaced or incorrect data in the database. If the file is badly damaged and some of its parts are missing or inaccessible, the you get error -1022.

In these situations, you should opt for Exchange Recovery using third party applications to retrieve all of the corrupt or inaccessible data. These applications are designed to effectively scan the damaged EDB file and retrieve all of the objects from it. The Exchange Repair software are completely easy and safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most excellent Exchange Server Recovery tool to ensure absolute recovery in most of the EDB corruption scenarios. It works well with Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. This software is designed for Microsoft Windows 2003, XP and 2000.