Introduction About Dirty Shutdown State Error

Microsoft Exchange Server database works with Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), which is also known as the JET engine at the core. This Jet engine utilizes mailbox database cache to decrease the input-output operation enumeration. It is the jet engine where all the transaction log files are stowed.

Acquiring Dirty Shutdown State Issue? Here Are the Steps to Be Taken Next

Exchange transaction log tracks the entire modifications that are done in the database. All the data that is to be updated in the user mailboxes are at first registered in the transaction log files then, written to the database. When the Exchange database operates normally, it is certainly not unusual for any database procedure to terminate unexpectedly. The main cause of this termination is losing the access to backend storage, corruption in the file system, or server-wide power loss. Exchange Server will start up smoothly only after a proper shut down of the Exchange database. For proper shut down of the database, the entire data in the transaction log should be committed to database files. When all the transaction log data becomes committed, the database is considered as “detached” and it is a green signal for a clean shut down. When the Exchange Server starts up, it inspects the state of the database and if it founds it “attached” with the log files, the database is considered to be in “Exchange Dirty Shutdown State”.

Hence, when any up-gradation or operation on the database becomes loaded into the cache memory but is not committed to Exchange database, it is rewarded as ‘Dirty’ by this Jet engine. The database is considered as inconsistent until all the Dirty transactions not become resolved. When the Exchange Server shuts down accidentally during the inconsistency of database, the Dirty Shutdown State is received.

Exchange Database Dirty Shutdown Errors

Error 550

Error 528

Improper Shutdown Error

Why the Exchange Database States Dirty Shutdown Error?

If the Exchange database is unable to mount, it shows the dirty shutdown state. Here are the possible reasons for this error:

• EDB/STM not detached properly from log files
• EDB file becomes inaccessible
• Transaction log files got damaged
• Log files got removed or deleted
• Miscellaneous or any other reasons

A Technique to fix Dirty Shutdown State Issue

If the Exchange database is unable to mount the way to recover it depends on the status quo. Before going to the solution, verify that your Exchange Server is working in a flow. After that, go with the down-mentioned guidelines:

Step 1: Determine the area of issue: Navigate to the folder of Exchange Server that comprises Exchange database and logs files. Usually, the folder is placed at below location:

C: >> Program files >> Microsoft >> Exchange Server >> v15 >> Mailbox >> Mailbox Database >> *.edb

Note: The location may vary if the user has been selected some other place to stock the log files.

Step 2: Terminate the Exchange services and quit the Exchange Server management console (ECP).

Step 3: After this, rename the folder of Mailbox database.

Step 4: Now, generate a new folder with the same name of the folder that you have renamed in the previous step.

Step 5: Now, begin the Exchange services again and launch the Exchange Server Management console.

Step 6: Hit a right click on the Database folder of Exchange Server management console and select mount. This will ask to generate a fresh, empty database. Click on Ok.

After this, the exchange will begin running process and users can access the entire mailboxes but all will be empty. After opening the folder, you will get the new and blank Exchange Server database within it.

Now, we can restore data from the old and corrupted database for the empty mailboxes.

Observational Verdict

The “Dirty Shutdown” issue is a fairly self-explanatory one, which implies that the database is down or in the unhealthy state. This error can cause anxiety for the Exchange Administrators who are spending so many hours during frantically to get a database mount and restore its functionality. For Exchange Server, troubleshooting the same issue we have come up with this editorial. Here, we have described an easy solution to resolve Exchange Server Dirty Shutdown State issue.

Steps to create custom signature in Outlook

You can always modify or create a new signature. Here I will create a new one. So shall we see the steps?.

Step 1

Login to your Outlook and click on New Email. Now you will get a new Email page. Go to Signature tab and click Signatures.

Signature Tab In Outlook

Step 2

Click the “New” button and type your signature name in the given text box. Then click on OK.

Create New Signature In Outlook

Step 3

Now click on the signature name and type the text you need to appear in your signature.

Text Signature In Outlook

Step 4

So you have created a normal signature. Now we will include some Images in our signature and we will add links to those. To include an image, click on the image icon on the right side.

Adding Images In Outlook Signature

Now load the image and click Insert.

Step 5

The only thing pending is we need to add link to the image right? For that, select the image you just loaded, and click on the link button.

Adding link to image in signature

Step 6

Now type the link in the address text box and click OK.

Image With Link In Outlook Signature

So when everything is done, just click OK.

Custom Signature In Outlook

That is all, we have created our Signature.

Conclusion

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Your turn. What do you think?

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Background

I know we all uses Outlook. Am I right? Few of them will be using it for official uses like me. What happens if you create an account in C-Sharp Corner or Code Project with that account? Mails from C-Sharp Corner and Code Project will be coming to your Office mail right? It will be good if you could arrange your mails by giving separate folder for separate kind of mails. Here in this post we will learn how we can do that.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

To move mails from Inbox to other folder, you need to follows the below steps.

Step 1

Right click on the mail on which sender you need to create the rule and go to Rules and then Create Rule.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Step 2

Select the rules (Check Boxes) as shown in the below image.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Step 3

Now click on the ‘Move the item to folder’ check box. You can see a pop as follows.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Select your mail id and click on new button.

Step 4

Give your folder name and click OK.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Step 5

Now you can see that the new folder name has been added to the text box near to the check box.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Step 6

Before clicking OK, click on the ‘Advanced Options’

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Step 7

Now you can see so many rules listed. Be careful when you select those. Now please go to the last page.

Move Mails from Inbox To Other Folder

Please make sure that ‘Run this rule now on messages already in “Inbox”‘ and ‘Turn on this rule’ is checked so that this rules will be applied for your past mails which satisfied the conditions. This will make sure that the past mails will be moved to your new folder.

Step 8

Once you are done, please click on the finish button. You can see a pop saying that the rule is running.

Applying rules in Outlook

Step 9

Now make sure that the rules are applied and all the mails which is satisfying our conditions given has been moved to our new folder.

Validating rules in Outlook

That’s all we have done it.

Conclusion

Did I miss anything that you may think which is needed? Could you find this post as useful? I hope you liked this article. Please share me your valuable suggestions and feedback.

Your turn. What do you think?

A blog isn’t a blog without comments, but do try to stay on topic. If you have a question unrelated to this post, you’re better off posting it on C# Corner, Code Project, Stack Overflow, Asp.Net Forum instead of commenting here. Tweet or email me a link to your question there and I’ll definitely try to help if I can.

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Sibeesh Venu

Sample Word Doc

To test this, we need a word document in which second page is blank. You can see a word document sample below.

Now we need to follow the following steps.

Step 1

Go to view tab from the menu and click on the Draft

You can see that in the above image.

Step 2

If you do first step, your word document becomes as follows.

Now you need to paragraph menu from Home tab.

Step 3

Click on the icon from paragraph menu.

Once you click on that icon, you will get some non printing characters in your word document. Click on the last in your word document and press delete.

Now go back to your home tab and click on show/hide menu and then go to View tab and click print layout option.

That is all now, I hope your blank page is deleted now.

Kindest Regards
Sibeesh Venu

document1
document2
output
Hi all, in this article you will learn about mail merging in Word 2013. Most of you may have already worked on this, or familiar with it. This article is for those who have not yet tried this.

Background

Yesterday one of my friends asked me about mail merging in Word. To be frank, that was the first time I had heard about it. I then learned it is a feature available in Word. But I could search and help my friend about that. So I thought of sharing that info with you all.

Mail Merging in Word

The Mail Merge feature helps you to create Word documents with nearly the same contents with only a few differences. Let us say you have to send your marriage invitation Word document to 100 people. In this case, only the address will be different, right? (I know you won’t create your marriage invitation in a Word document. This is just for an example.) So here we can use the mail merge feature.

How it works

We will have two Word documents. The first document will have the address details of the recipients. And the second document will have the marriage invitation content. So what we are going to do is, just gathering the data from the first document to the second. At last we will have a separate marriage invitation for the separate address.

Let’s start

We will do the entire process step by step.

Step 1

Open a sample Word document.

Consider that we have the first document, document 1, as in the following (please see the document1.docx from the download list).

NB: The most important thing here is, I have used a comma (,) as the delimiter. To work with this feature we must give a delimiter (separator) in each of the details.

Step 2

Create invitation Word document.

Consider we have the content (document2.docx) as follows.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

From,
Your name,
Your address
To,

With joy in our hearts, we your name and your fiancée name, request the honor of your presence as we exchange marriage vows and celebrate our new life together Saturday, June 19, 2015.

The Taj Hotel

Chennai

————————————————————————————————————————–

Please note that I have not given the “to address”, this content we will gather from the document1.

Step 3

Open document2.docx and click on start Mail Merge under the mailing tab.

Click on the step-by-step Mail Merge wizard. Now you can see a dock panel on the right side of your Word document as follows.

Step 4

Click on Next.

Step 5

After doing the preceding, you will get a screen as follows:

Please note that all the details are loaded correctly.

Now click OK.

Now you are able to write your letter. Click on write your letter as in the following image.

Step 6

Step 7

Step 8

Click on the edit individual letter. And click OK for the next pop up.

Now you can see the invitations separately for each of the names and addresses you have given in the document1.

That’s all.

Output

Please download output.docx to see the output.

Conclusion

I hope you liked this article. Now please share your thoughts and suggestions. It matters a lot.

Kindest Regards,

Sibeesh Venu
www.sibeeshpassion.com

Today I came across the requirement to determine the consolidated data in Excel. I was just calculating my monthly expenses for the past few months. So I thought of sharing how to consolidate the data in Excel, so that it will be more readable.

How

Let us say I have the data as follows.

You can see that some of the categories are repeating in that list. So we need to consolidate the items, right? So that I can get an overview of how much money I have spent in each category, so let us do that.

Step 1

Create the headers.

Step 2

Click on the adjacent cell below “Consolidated Category”, so that you can consolidate the data there.

Step 3

Go to Data and click on the tab Consolidate.

The moment you clicked, a pop-up will open as follows.

Step 4

Now click on the reference icon just near to the Browse button.

Once you click on the reference, please select the data that is not consolidated as follows.

Please note that a reference formula has been added to the reference box.

Step 5

Now click on the reference icon again as follows.

Step 6

Please click on the Add button so that your formula can be used the next time also. Once you have clicked on that, you can see that your formula has been added to all the references.

Step 7

Now an important part is, since our data is based on the category and the category is left column in the selection, you need to check the Left column.

Once you are done, please click OK.

Output

Now you will get output as follows.

Cool! You have done it.

Conclusion

Please provide your valuable suggestions and comments. Thanks in advance.

Kindest Regards,

Sibeesh Venu