Hi
A bit of a new-year challenge for anyone into Exchange server.
We are migrating from a Windows Small Business Server 2011 to Windows 2012R2 + Exchange 2013 on premise. Something I have done successfully for several clients over the past 2 years.
So I had a working WS2012R2 fully Windows updated as of last night, joined to the domain, Exchange prerequisites installed and all ready to install Exchange this morning.
This morning Exchange installed, it seemed happy enough with the install, we could access ECP web page happily and running powershell said that it was 'connected' to our new EX13 server. However when I run 'get-exchangeserver' only the Exchange 2010 server
shows in the list, not the Exchange 13. Part of the problem with this is that powershell also didn't recognise the existence of the mailbox database, so trying to eg. move the edb path would fail. I forced it with 'configonly' or similar switch and manually
moved the files, but I wasn't happy with the situation. Various attempts to repair and such didn't get very far until a force-delete of the PRogram files\Microsoft\Exchange Server folder
Eventually I ditched the new Exchange 2013 server install, reinstalled WS2012, re-install prerequisites and installed exchange in /m:recoverserver (and by the way /iacceptmicrosoftexchangeserverterms is a ridiculous switch to have to type so many times!).
This time, following some advice I saw, I copied the install files to a local disk instead of installing Exchange from UNC. Same result, the server isn't listed and nor is the database in powershell, despite them both being listed and happy in the ECP.
As far as I can tell there are no network issues, AD is syncing and replicating happily between SBS11 and WS2012R2 (separate WS2012 to the Exchange install, obviously). I should also note that the download from the Action Pack site for Exchange SP1 wouldn't
complete, so again following advice I found online I simply extracted the EX13 CU11 files and installed from there, IE not from an ISO download.
Anyone think of anything to try next?
Thanks
== Minor Update ==
Running get-exchangeserver -identity <myEx13Server> DOES return information, but still not showing in get-exchangeserver get-mailboxdatabase. I might have found an AD replication issue on one of my DCs but looking in ADSI Edit on that server, the Exchange13
server does show up under the administrative group, and also that server replicates without issue via AD Sites and Services. Thanks.
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