Help. Information Store will not start after running eseutil

[tdoma]

I was running out of space on my Exchange server 5.5 with SP4. I stopped all Exchange Server related services, and then ran the eseutil as follows:
F:\exchsrvr\bin\eseutil /d d:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv.edb.

The F drive was a mapped drive on a machine that had enough space.
After the defrag ran, I tried to start the IS, but it will not start. It gives me this error:
'The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service returned service specific error 4294966087.'

I restarted the server hoping that resolve it, but no it did not. Anyone out there know what could be causing this?

 

[zbnet]

I presume you've searched on the error message and discovered that it means "Database engine is incompatible
with database"? Have you tried an ISINTEG -patch?

I think you need the old one back...

 

[FAM]

Im not sure if this is causing the problem but the command
F:\exchsrvr\bin\eseutil /d d:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv.edb
should be used to Defrag a Exchange 2000 database.
To defrag Exchange 5.5 i would of said you should of used,
F:\exchsrvr\bin\eseutil /d /ispriv /td:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv.edb


Have a look at,

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=192185

Hope this is of some use,
FAM

 

[tdoma]

I ended up calling MS Support. My problem was I had used the Exchange 2003 version of ESEUTIL instead of the one for Exchange 5.5. At that point I had 2 options either upgrade the server to E2k3 or restore from an old backup, which I did.