When you install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, a set of tasks is run to install few services. One of these services is Microsoft Exchange Transport Service, which is a network service responsible for SMTP and transport stack. At times, you observe that the service fails to start. Among other reasons, one root cause of this problem is corruption of ESE ( Extensible Storage Engine) database. This occurs when the corrupted database exists on Edge Transport Server or Hub Transport Server and has been serving as Content Filtering database or message queue database. This clearly means corruption and calls for actions to apply EDB Recovery solutions.

For more clarification of the issue, let's consider a problem when you attempt to start Microsoft Exchange Transport Service, but fail to do so. Further, on viewing the application log, you encounter the below event ID logging:

Event ID: 17003 Source: MSExchangeTransport Category: Storage Type: Error Explanation: A Transport database operation has encountered a fatal error. The database may be corrupted. The Microsoft Exchange Transport service is shutting down. Manual database recovery or repair may be required.

Explanation

As indicated in the event itself, Microsoft Exchange Transport service is failing to start because the ESE database (stored on Microsoft Exchange Transport service) is corrupted and needs recovery or repair.

Solution

Apply one of the measures to solve the given problem, whichever is suitable:

1.You can delete the corrupted database and the associated transaction logs. However, it is recommended to perform this only when the data stored in this database is not important. 2.If deleting the database is not feasible, you should repair the database. To do so, first make sure that MS Exchange Transport Service is not running and then run Eseutil /p repair utility. You can then start the stopped service.

In case, Eseutil repair utility doesn't bring any effect to fix the inconsistency of the database, try using a third-party tool to repair the Corrupt EDB File. These solutions are perfect EDB Recovery Tool built to scan and repair the file using efficient scanning algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is one the finest EDB Recovery Software to repair and restore the Corrupt EDB File. Designed to repair corrupted databases created with MS Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2000, and 5.5, the recover edb tool restores all mailboxes as abstract *.pst files. Equipped with selective mailbox recovery option, the tool also allows you to recover the deleted mailboxes.