Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Resolving Exchange Server Error ‘Operation Terminated with Error -1601’

Now-a-days it has become very common for most of the organizations to use Microsoft Exchange Server as an email server application for improving their communication medium and because of its robust and user friendly features. MS Exchange Server is developed by Microsoft Inc. to facilitate and manage business data like emails, calendar events, meetings, contact ids, attachments, task and many more.

Many times it occurs, while working with Exchange server suddenly your database failed to mount due to some unknown reasons and an error message is displayed on the screen. Some common errors of Exchange server are: Exchange error 550, Exchange dirty shutdown error, Exchange 1601 error etc.

Here we are going to talk about Exchange database error 1601, situations in which this error occurred and how we can sort out it. The syntax of this error is given below:

"Operation terminated with error -1601 (JET_errRecordNotFound, The key was not found) after 2.354 seconds.”

Causes:-

This error generally occurs either when using an inbuilt utility for analyzing and repairing database but the version of utility is not ensuring about it Or the structure of EDB File and STM file is different from each other. Other possible cause for this problem could be the severe corruption in Exchange database file structure.

As a result your Exchange database will not respond and your precious data becomes unreachable to you.

Solution:-

Try to get latest service pack of your server application. If it does not fix your problem and you are still in trouble, go for any efficient third party tool. In the market many affordable or user friendly professional tools are available for Exchange Recovery which help to easily work around any corruption issue.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is one such award winning application to repair and recover data from damaged Exchange information databases. This software is compatible with all versions of MS Exchange Server. This is the highly recommendable application to deal with all type of Exchange error codes, arising due to the corruption in Exchange database files. This utility extensively analyzes the damaged database and restores inaccessible mailboxes into separate .pst files.

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