Monday, September 7, 2015

How to repair your Corrupt SharePoint Content Database

You will find several organizations that create sites and keep their files, data and all the confidential information in a safe manner so that it can be shared afterwards. All these are possible due to Microsoft Sharepoint that already set some platform and algorithm of the web applications. If you want to use the entire data which is kept on MS Sharepoint server then you can access with the help of web browsers that supports internet such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Microsoft SharePoint comprises of web technologies and it is designed in a way so that non-technically person doesn’t face any issue while working on it. It is completely similar to Microsoft Office Suite. But there sometimes comes when user has to face corruption issue and this is due to careless or not managing properly. When users face failure of download files from SharePoint then an error message comes up which means that SharePoint has gone corrupt.

How SharePoint servers get corrupt?

There are several reasons for corruption of SharePoint file and due to this, the functioning of server and the results fail to access those files which are kept on server. Corruption can happen due to corruption in database index, due to disk corruption, or sometimes memory becomes full and many more reasons. Some of the errors are mentioned below:

Error event ID: 74- Generally this type of error is connected with search crawls along with the queries and Mssearch.exe in Microsoft SharePoint. Due to below mentioned causes, the error messages appears:
  • Due to disk failure which leads to database corruption
  • Due to damaged content in SharePoint
Error event ID: 71- When the Mssearch.exe process is initialized, this error comes in SharePoint. Due to this the server gets affected. However the primary reasons for the error is'
  • Due to inadequate memory
  • Due to corrupt index file
Hence if you come across such type of error message which is mentioned above then only one way is there to fix the error and that is by using third party tool like SharePoint File Repair Tool. With the help of this tool, one can easily repair the corrupt SharePoint database such as labels, documents, tables, indexes etc. Even it can restore the entire damaged database and can save all the recovered files at aprticular place on system.

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