Usefull tools: Err.exe (Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up)

The tool "Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up" to the contrary to what the name suggests serves to decipher almost any error code.

Here as an example the utilization of the tool deciphering the classic COM error 0x80070005 (Access is denied):

c:\err.exe 0x80070005
# for hex 0x80070005 / decimal -2147024891 :
  COR_E_UNAUTHORIZEDACCESS              corerror.h
# MessageText:
# Access is denied.
  DIERR_OTHERAPPHASPRIO                        dinput.h
  DIERR_READONLY                                          dinput.h
  DIERR_HANDLEEXISTS                                 dinput.h
  DSERR_ACCESSDENIED                             dsound.h
  ecAccessDenied                                               ec.h
  ecPropSecurityViolation                                    ec.h
  MAPI_E_NO_ACCESS                                    mapicode.h
  STIERR_READONLY                                        stierr.h
  STIERR_NOTINITIALIZED                                 stierr.h
  E_ACCESSDENIED                                         winerror.h
# General access denied error
# 11 matches found for "0x80070005"

It returns codes from 172 sources such as SQL, AD, Exchange and so on.

Code sources

Description:

Use the Error Code Lookup tool to determine error values from decimal and hexadecimal error codes in Microsoft Windows® operating systems. The tool can look up one or more values at a time. All values on the command line will be looked up in Exchange’s internal tables and presented to you. If available, informational data associated with the value or values will also be shown.

Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up
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