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Exchange 2003 Isinteg not working and just keeps displaying help

Asked by: russell_its

I have successfully restored an exchange 2003 server database and also successfully completed an eseutil repair and integrity check . Now I'm trying to use isinteg on the server to restore and access the newly restored database.  I run "isinteg -s server1 -fix" or any switches for that matter, it just gives me the isinteg help. I have tried it with Info Store on/Off DB mounted/dismounted.  

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Answers

 

by: -alvin-Posted on 2009-05-29 at 22:18:31ID: 24507880

i believe you need the -test switch too.

 

by: -alvin-Posted on 2009-05-29 at 22:22:45ID: 24507885

sorry hit submit too soon.  try this...

isinteg -s server1 -fix -test alltests

 

by: russell_itsPosted on 2009-05-29 at 22:27:15ID: 24507893

i tried your suggestion with the store mounted and dismounted and it still displaying help

 

by: -alvin-Posted on 2009-05-29 at 22:36:17ID: 24507905

can you (or have you) tried typing out the full path to isinteg?

 

by: russell_itsPosted on 2009-05-29 at 23:07:46ID: 24507963

i have tried typing the full path to isinteg and it still displays the help

 

by: -alvin-Posted on 2009-05-29 at 23:22:19ID: 24507996

weird.  do you have another exchange server you can try to run the same command from?  wonder if your isinteg is busted.

 

by: russell_itsPosted on 2009-05-29 at 23:37:54ID: 24508030

it seems to be something i'm doing wrong.... i have tried the same command without the -fix option on  our production server and it also just displays the help. Also i copied the isinteg file from another server and run from a differnet location and same thing with displaying help.

 

by: alanhardistyPosted on 2009-05-30 at 02:10:45ID: 24508337

The isinteg file lives in the program files\exchsrvr\bin directory and and the database files live in the program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata directory by default, you will need to do the following to get isinteg to work assuming that the C: drive is in use by default and you are checking the primary private mailbox store:

Dismount the mailbox store you want to check
Open up a command prompt.
Navigate to c:\program files\exchsrvr\bin
Then type isinteg -s (servername) -test alltests -fix "c:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb" and press return.

This should allow isinteg to run happily.  Then you just selected the dismounted store and let it run.  If you see errors that are fixed on the first run through, run the command again to check it completes without additional errors and then you should be able to mont the store again and should be problem free.

 

by: alanhardistyPosted on 2009-05-30 at 02:13:01ID: 24508344

Sorry - getting ahead of myself.

The command should be:
isinteg -s server1 -test alltests -fix

Was mixing the eseutil and isinteg commands!

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