Fix Exchange Server Fails to Save Appointments Issues

Exchange server comes with various types of emailing options, among which scheduling appointments or calendars is one. Users can enjoy the benefits of calendaring options in Exchange server. The calendaring options helps the users in performing different types of scheduling tasks such as creating scheduler, marking appointments, saving appointments etc. However, in some cases the Exchange server fails to save appointments and creates problems for you.

Calendaring agent or appointments poses problems to the exchange server users who are trying to save their appointments in Exchange server. You will also encounter failure of calendar options and further damage of EDB database.


Why Exchange Server Fails to Save Appointments?


The most prominent reason due to which Exchange server fails to save appointments is antivirus scanning. Generally continuous antivirus scanning causes obstruction in the proper functioning of Exchange server. It shows nasty behavior in case the file-level antivirus has been installed on your system and is configured in such a way to automatically scan Exchange server directory structure.

Further you will get the following entries when you will log on to the Exchange server application log:
“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.

How to resolve Exchange server fails to save appointments issues?


In order to resolve Exchange server failure to save appointments, you can try to re-configure your installed antivirus application without including drive 'M' and EXCHSRVR directory in the scanning. You can use ESEUTIL utilities such as -/p and -/r for repairing the corrupted Exchange server database. It is also recommended to restore data from a valid previous backup.

If no good occurs by using these methods you should go for Corrupted EDB repair software in order to resolve Exchange server fails to save appointments issues and complete repair of edb files. The software will repair each and every edb files alongwith appointments without hindering the actual file contents. Besides, it supports recovery of EDB files from almost all exchange server versions like Exchange Server 5.5, 2003, and 2003.