FBA (Form Based Authentication) is used as a term of art in context of Web or Internet based network computers and in collaborative messaging environment with Exchange Server. It refers to notion of a user being presented with editable form to fill and submit to log into the Exchange Server account. It is basically employed to enhance the security of sensitive and confidential emails and other personal data. In some situations, FBA may get broken and you can not log into your Exchange Server account. This situation could occur due to Exchange Server database corruption or some issues with the EDB file objects. At this point, you are required to go for EDB Recovery solutions to repair and restore damaged EDB file.

In a practical scenario, when you start Microsoft Exchange Server, everything else works file (such as OWA (Outlook Web Access) with HTTPS redirection, SSL public folder, OMA (Outlook Mobile Access) and RPC (Remote Procedure Call) over HTTPS) but FBA is broken. After changing the IP addresses of any website, things may start active strangely. You can not access anything from the Exchange Server and may face critical situations of data inaccessibility and data loss.

If you restore the default settings to sort out this issue, you might come across the following error message:

“Server object error 'ASP 0177: 800401f3' 
Server.CreateObject Failed 
/exchweb/bin/auth/owalogon.asp, line 4 
800401f3”

Grounds of the issue

This situation may occur due to the number of reasons, which include the followings:

• Exchange Server database corruption

• Version incompatibility issues after upgrading to later version of Exchange Server

• Missing or damaged Exchange Server objects

In all these cases, the data can not be accessed normally and you need to perform EDB Repair by sorting out this problem.

Resolution

In order to gain access of your critical data in such cases, you are required to repair and restore damaged Exchange Server database. This is best possible with the help of powerful and advanced third party software, known as EDB Recovery applications.

These tools use effective scanning mechanisms to restore all of the EDB file objects including emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries, tasks, journal, personal folders and so forth. With interactive and simple graphical user interface, these tools allow you to perform easy, quick and absolute EDB Repair.

Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the most excellent solution to handle majority of Exchange Server database corruption issues. This software works well with Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003, XP and 2000.