Mystery quaratined mailbox

Hi folks,
I have some kind of mailbox corruption in my Exchange 2013 mailbox database that is causing Exchange to hang every day for the last couple of days. The problem is I can’t figure out which mailbox
is involved.
I get following sequence of errors:
MSEchangeIS Information 1015
The mailbox with mailboxguid "14b36edb-51b8-4159-a506-735895f6c8eb" has been unquarantined. Access to this mailbox has been restored.
Then these next two are repeated three times
MSExchangeIS Error 1013
The mailbox with mailboxguid "14b36edb-51b8-4159-a506-735895f6c8eb" caused crash or resource outage on database (GUID="be4f5450-e7cd-422f-b72d-5705f3fdbb68")
MSExchangeIS Error 2008
Microsoft Exchange Information Store worker process (21084) has encountered a fatal database exception (Microsoft.Isam.Esent.Interop.EsentBadParentPageLinkException: Database corrupted (followed
by a very long stack trace)
finally
The mailbox with mailboxguid "14b36edb-51b8-4159-a506-735895f6c8eb" has been quarantined. Access to this mailbox will be restricted to administrative logons for 1.00:00:00 since the
last report.
The problem is that my users get disconnected from Exchange every time this happens and are locked out for the duration of the sequence—about two or three minutes. I know this isn't such a
big deal, but I have users who get very nervous whenever anything unusual happens with email.
I’ve searched everywhere but can’t find any reference to the mailbox GUID mentioned except in the quarantined mailbox record in the registry. I’ve tried finding the GUID using get-mailbox |
list and some other cmdlets in PowerShell as recommended in Tony Redmond’s ‘Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Mailbox and High Availability’ book and tried some other things I found in a Technet blog about searching Active Directory but so far nothing has turned
up.
I have a feeling that this might have something to do with a calendar in a public folder, but I can’t be certain.
Any ideas?
George
George Merriman [email protected] Gravesend Systems Inc. Brooklyn NY USA

Hi,
Please refer to the following article to find this mailbox:
Recreate Exchange 2013 Health Mailboxes
Running Get-Mailbox –Monitoring will list all the health mailboxes in your 2013 organization.
There will be two health mailboxes created for every mailbox database – one is used for mailbox and the other for public folder.
Please note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information. And the changes made in the above blog is not supported officially by Microsoft.
Hope it helps!
Thanks
Niko Cheng
TechNet Community Support

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