Restore Exchange 2003 Database from Dirty Shutdown
Friday, normally a very quiet day, today was going to be different than I had anticipated. I got in the in office and overheard a collegue, talking with a sysadmin from a subdivision about an exchange server. Damn I knew it immediately it was the one from yesterday that wend down 30 times in 12 hours. They had replaced the systemboard, and where now knocking on our doors for help because the Mailbox database wouldn't mount, and before I even got a cup of coffee I was on the phone and started the rdp session to the server. Our exchange environment consists of about 135 exchange 2003 servers. But the one I now needed to rdp to I knew the hostname already. On the phone with the sysadmin I started the needed actions, and I've written them down so it maybe helps someone in the future. This article explains all the steps you need to take to be a bring a exchange 2003 mailbox store that is in a "Dirty" Shutdown state back to life. Actions performed for exchange 200...