XADM: Err Msg: Error Encountered Accessing Registry Keys/Values for Exchange Store
Article ID: 167281
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q167281
SYMPTOMS
When you run EDBUTIL.EXE /D or EDBUTIL.EXE /R and you use the registry
switches of /DS, /IS, /ISPRIV, or /ISPUB to specify the location for the
database, the following error message may appear:
Error encountered accessing registry keys/values for specified
Exchange store.
Operation terminated with error -1907
CAUSE
This error occurs when EDBUTIL is running on a computer other than the one
Microsoft Exchange Server is installed on. When you run EDBUTIL /R, the
registry switches /DS or /IS must be used to specify the database name.
Thus, if you want to use the registry switches to specify the database
name, you must run EDBUTIL /R from the Exchange Server computer.
WORKAROUND
To run EDBUTIL /D or EDBUTIL /D /R on a non-Exchange Server computer:
- Explicitly specify the database path and name after the /D switch, as in
the following example:
EDBUTIL /D c:\exchsrvr\dsadata\dir.edb
EDBUTIL /D c:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv.edb /R
CAUTION: Running EDBUTIL can remove damaged data that might be required for
the operation of the service and might not be recoverable. Always back up
the original database file before running Edbutil.
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