Exchange Server Mechanics

An exchange server administrator always has exchange server database or EDB in his mind . Why would he not when it is the main component of any mail server setup with microsoft exchange. It is the store of all data including mailboxes, journals , tasks , calendar entries , notes and more within a single file. In earlier versions of exchange there used to be two files one .edb and other .stm which have now been both combined into single exchange database file edb The exchange database file EDB used to store MAPI messages and attachments while it was the .stm file that had raw internet content in it. From exchange 2007 onwards however the functions were merged into single EDB file. This was done mainly to reduce i/o footprint as per microsoft themselves. Making EDB file readable One of the challenges exchange admins often face is the manageability of exchange database or edb files . Viewing its contents is not necessarily straightforward. There can be instances...