Exchange Server fails to save Appointments

MS Exchange Server deployment comes with various emailing options and scheduling appointments is one of them. User can get benefit with calendaring option in MS Exchange Server. With calendaring, user is open to perform various scheduling tasks, like marking appointments, creating scheduler for various appointments, and other saving of appointments.

But sometimes appointments feature doesn’t work properly in Exchange Server user client and poses problems for you. Reason might be the antivirus scanning. Usually continuous antivirus scanning creates obstruction in smooth functioning of Appointments in Exchange Server. Exchange Server exhibits nasty irregular behavior when file-level antivirus software is installed and is configured to scan the Exchange Server directory (EXCHSRVR) structure.

Moreover, antivirus scanning of Exchange Server directory structure lead to corruption of the most important files in your Information Store of MS Exchange Server, such as .EDB, .STM, .CHK, and .LOG files. In such times you need EDB Repair tool to repair corrupt EDB and STM files. Corrupt EDB Repair tool is an apt solution for dealing with major corruption issues and recovering all elements of EDB database files.

Appointments or calendaring agent posed problem for a user who tried to save few appointments in MS Exchange Server. To his surprise, he noticed the failure of Calendar option and further corruption in EDB database file. Some or all of the calendar information were lost. Additionally, he received the following similar entries logging in application event log of Exchange Server:

“Event ID: 8206
Source: EXCDO
Description: Calendaring agent failed with error code 0×80040229 while saving appointment”

And something like,

“Event ID: 1160
Source: MsExchangeIS
Description: Database resource failure error First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (MAIL) occurred in function JTAB_BASE::EcPrepareUpdate while accessing the database “0xfffffc0d”.”

All the error Event IDs simply suggests the failure of Exchange Calendaring agent.

Simple solution to this problem is to re-configure your antivirus software and not to include EXCHSRVR directory and drive ‘M’ in this scan.

What happens is that file-level antivirus software locks and scans the file that is currently being tried to access by Exchange Server. Thus, the Information Store (IS) fails to lock this file and eventually the file becomes corrupt and unusable.

well to resolve this issue, first of all try to restore the database from a previous backup or apply ESEUTIL repair utilities like - /p and /r for the affected Exchange Server database(s).

If nothing happens then you strongly need an effective EDB Repair tool for recovering corrupt EDB files. EDB Repair tool scans and repairs the corrupted database effectively. It recovers each and every existing file item including Appointments without modifying original file contents. It repairs the heavily corrupt Exchange database files .EDB and restore user mailboxes with every email, attachment, image, email property and other relevant items. The recovered email data are then saved to Outlook .PST file. EDB Repair tool is designed and developed to repair edb file, recover lost, deleted mailboxes of Exchange Server database file and recover emails, attachments, images, sent items, deleted emails, journals, calendars, notes, schedules etc from the recovered mail box.