Get to Know About Microsoft Tool to Determine Exchange Server Error Codes
The post briefs Microsoft Exchange users with Exchange error code lookup tool. This utility is programmed and released by Microsoft team with the purpose of determining error codes in hexadecimal and decimal formats on Windows OS.
What does it exactly means when an administrator encounters error 528 at the time of event logging? Basically, this error corresponds to the ‘JET_errMissingLogFile’ error and indicates that Edb.chk and Edb.log files are not present in the Exchsrve\Mdbdata directory and there exist other unwanted .log files in the same directory. Even if you are known from this error then also it is unlikely that individual (except the Exchange expert) memorizes every possible error code associated with Exchange. There is not only an Exchange application used by an employee; other applications are also there that flashes error messages one or the other day. Here comes a call for a free software that stores all possible errors of an application and a person can go use it whenever required. Microsoft designed an application named as ‘Exchange Error Code Look-up Tool’ for helping its customers. This tool only comprises of the Exchange server error codes.
Introduction on Exchange Error Code Look-up Tool
The utility is available for downloading and installation without any payment cost. It comprises of an individual compressed executable file named as err.exe. Interested candidates need to download this setup file from the official Microsoft store and explore the items present in the folder of their own wish. You are going to encounter tons of error values in this utility. It comprises hexadecimal, decimal, and exact error string and enables users to become aware of all possibilities. While it is possible that result could be ambiguous in certain cases but, the utility will give you correct start to troubleshoot the Exchange error codes. Let us take a brief example to understand the importance of this utility!
Suppose that following event log entry occurs in your Exchange server while working :
When you will go through the statements given in error message, you will not get even a single line that determines the error cause. You might be holding your head and thinking that ‘what to do now?’ Here comes the role of Exchange Error Code Look-up tool. First copy pastes these lines in this useful utility and executes them. Update the directory with the retrieved content of the software and type error code. The code will be -528 or an error string like 4294966768. Following screenshot shows the entire result of using this Exchange server error codes record tool:
Lots of information associated with the error code or string displayed after executing it in the utility. You will find that tool pointed towards ‘JET_errMissingLogFile’ error, which means that there is something wrong with log files of the Exchange server. Either these files are misplaced, missing, or corrupted, due to which Exchange application is not working properly.
Conclusion
Exchange Error Code Look-up tool is provided by Microsoft, which comprises of multiple Exchange server error codes. The purpose of coding such software is only to show the correct path to users while troubleshooting a problem.
