Smartphone does not sync with outlook/exchange automatically after exchange mail database repair

Did you try to recreated the profile on Device ?  ---> I will try that now.

Offline Defrag ---->  Could you give me the command and the link about that?
ISINTEG  ---> Could you give me the command and the link about that?

Are the lack of Offline Defrag and ISINTEG are the direct cause of failing to sync?

Offline Defrag and ISINTEG could help as you just fixed the DB Page corruption not the rest

Eseutil/Isinteg - Email Store Troubleshooting
http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=87

Using the Exchange tools ISINTEG and ESEUTIL to Ensure the Health of your Information Store
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-ISINTEG-ESEUTIL.html

- Rancy
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Erasing and Re-creating exchange account on my smartphone took care of the synching issue.
Thank you and why is it that I had to remove existing account and re-create the same account?

I can tell you that in Exchange DB data is stored in 8KB pages in Exchange 2007 and 2010 so if you get an email of 40KB it would be stored in 5 pages in Exchange Database and with Pointers and sometimes when we do a repair they can break causing issues with Outlook and Devices so we preferably do a Defrag and ISINTEG to fix all and then proceed ...... now the ActiveSync devices do keep cache and maybe that causes te issue and re-configuring clears or gets new data from server

- Rancy

Rancy,
 
 One problem ... email is not synching for some reason. I can see the folders in the mailbox, but no list of emails in each folder including INBOX.
 Contacts and Calendars are there.
 Any suggestions?

Hi Sglee,
It may be cause of your profile corruption, sometimes everything seems to be ok but due to corruption on your mobile profile, it is not sync properly.
After Exchange database repair we will definitely facing the Outlook calendar issues and as same Mobile active sync issues as usual.
You need to remove the old corrupted profile from Smart Phone and recreate the same account again it will definitely work.

With SBS2011 and Exchange 2010 you should be able to create more than one Mailbox database so simply you should create a new and Move users over and work this way for a clean process

- Rancy

"remove the old corrupted profile from Smart Phone and recreate "  ----> I had the user remove existing exchange account off his iPhone and re-create one from the scratch. But emails do not come thru.
On my personal iPad, I created his account and what happens is that I  can see calendar items, contacts, but I can only see his outlook "foldedr" names, no emails in INBOX and any other folders. iPad says "syncing ...", but it has been doing that for more than a day.

FYI he can access his email via https://remote.Domain.com/owa or running OUTLOOK either on his desktop or Terminal Server, so his mailbox is healthy. His mailbox size is over 11GB. Does this have anything to do with the problem perhaps?

Like you see in the posted screenshot, in the Exchange Management console, I saw all the attached mobile devices under his account such as iPad, iPhone and a couple of more.
What do you think about erasing the device from there?

@Rancy,

  When I run "Exchange ActiveSync" test on https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ on this particular user account, I get the following error at the end.


Attempting to test the GetItemEstimate command for the Inbox folder.
  ExRCA received an error in response to the GetItemEstimate command.
   Additional Details
  An HTTP 500 response was returned from IIS7.

When I run this test again each smartphone users on the exchange, they will pass except this account and this is only account that is failing to get emails.

Its failing with "Inbox folder" so seems some Corrupted item so why not empty his INBOX and then wait for sometime and check with the test ?

- Rancy

Clearning INBOX (if that is the only issue) is easy. I can simply move <100 emails from INBOX to DRAFT folder and try to sync. I will post the result.

I moved all the email pieces from INBOX into DRAFT folder.
I ran the test, but the result was the same:

Attempting to test the GetItemEstimate command for the Inbox folder.
  ExRCA received an error in response to the GetItemEstimate command.
   Additional Details
  An HTTP 500 response was returned from IIS7.

Rancy, this is very interesting and this may be the reason why it fails to sync.
After moving all mail pieces from INBOX to DRAFT folder, I closed and reopened his OUTLOOK.
As seen above, it shows 18 right next to INBOX whereas the in right window pane, it say "There are no items to show in this view".
How can I display these 18 emails? Are these corrupted and that's the reason they are not showing up?

I right clicked on INBOX and open Properties. I selected Synchronization and it shows "Server folder contains: 18 items, Offline folder contains: 106 items".

Does this indicate that this user's mailbox is corrupt; therefore I need to recreate his mailbox?

Could be possible lets try to move his Mailbox to another DB

- Rancy

We only have one mailbox database.
Whenever we migrated SBS from 2000 to 2003 and from 2003 to 2011, I have exported older outlook data into .PST and imported into new exchange mailbox, but I have not erased an existing mailbox and re-create the mailbox before. But that is what seems like what I have to do.

Am I correct here?

Yes you can always do that but a PST Export\Import would require X500 to be added

- Rancy

Rancy,
 
 I just resoved the problem with Microsoft Engineer on the phone. He repaird the mailbox so that the numbers do match up correctly. Consequently, when I ran ActiveSync Connectivity Test, it succeeded.
Now iPhone is getting emails finally.
Thanks for your help.

How can I award you with points whereas I select my comment (Microsoft Engineer's work) as the correct answer?

You can mark Multiple Solutions and then select more than one, but you can only award yourself 0

- Rancy