Convert Multiple Exchange EDB File to PST Format Effortlessly

Microsoft Exchange Server - Overview

Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server that stores email, contacts, tasks, address-books and lots of other data centrally so that the data can be accessed whenever required. MS Exchange Sever runs on centralized window server system integrate many essential technologies that will use by most of the organization on day to day schedules. These technologies includes Microsoft Lync, sharepoint i.e Messages, document, web/video conferencing and content management etc.
Microsoft exchange server provides centralized and role based access to data items and stores data in highly secure manner to protect crucial data from anti-spam and anti-malware. MS Outlook in Windows and entourage in Mac are the two famous desktop based mail client that interface with MS Exchange Server.

Exchange Server Storage

Current versions of Exchange Server store data into mailbox database and public folder database in EDB file format but in case of exchange server 2003 another file format.stm was also used with .edb file format to store data. Native internet contents like video, images, audio and other internet content files are stored in .stm file and referred to as streaming database.
But now all public and private database are stored in .edb file format. Mailbox database stores metadata for all email messages, data definitions, flags, checksums and other information in addition to content of MAPI messages that together comprise mailbox in exchange server. Mailbox database contains data that is private to an individual user and stored it in the form of priv1.edb or mailbox1.edb format.

Public folder database stores data, data definition, checksums, flags , indexes, and other related information that comprise a public folders for your exchange organization in the form of pub1.edb format. Public folders are designed to provide shared access and facilitate effective way to collect, organize and share information among the people within your workgroup.

Basic issues with EDB file and Needs for Converting Exchange mailbox to PST

• When user makes request, the data first cached into the memory that has to be written to the disk, these pages in memory are known as dirty pages. If system shuts down before all pages are transferred to the disk results the database in inconsistent form. This process is known as dirty system shutdown
• Accidently deletion of Exchange Server mailbox
• Unknowingly deletion of Log file leads to mailbox database inconsistent
• EDB file exceeded the default file size limit .
• When there is need of moving exchange server mailbox from one server to another server
• JET engine transaction errors damage EDB database

Best method to convert EDB to PST format

If your EDB file dismounted from exchange server or gets corrupted then there is no inbuilt utility in exchange server or Outlook to handle these situations. So under this scenario you have to use Intrigua EDB converter which will help to convert dismounted or corrupted Exchange EDB file to pst file. Exchange mailbox to PST converter has the capability to convert highly corrupted, password protected or encrypted exchange EDB mailbox to pst format. This tool can convert multiple EDB file in parallel, also it is not limited to any particular file size of EDB i.e manage to convert any file size of EDB.