I've done my cert req, sent it off, received it back and installed it. I know I've not completed the install, so not sure if its right. I'm a bit worried about a step before that though. Is there a way to inspect the certificate to see what domains and addresses are certified in that cert? or a way to go back into the ECP and see what domains / addresses the request was for? As it doesn't look like I can now I've completed the request with the cert that was supplied.

Hello All,

I have 1 query regarding exchange capacity planning.

currently we have 1,00,000 Mailboxes on exchange 2010 environment and every year they are growing by 10 % approx.

I need help on this how would I plan capacity planning of the future exchange server.

I have followed below things , please let me know if I missed anything on the same.

1) pulled out existing details through MAP tool

2) Daily , Weekly & monthly Mail flow,mailbox size and sent-rec items

3) used HP sizing tool for sizing (in future)

Please help me what needs to be done to achieve proper capacity planning for mentioned setup.

Hello 

Fresh installation with exchange 2013 and when i create new database it is successfully created but not shown in ECP

I go adsi and i find the database but not shown in ECP

I need help

MCP MCSA MCSE MCT MCTS CCNA

Hello All...

Trying to uninstall Exchange 2013 CUv2 v2. I've moved all the Mailboxes, Arbitration, Discovery, Public Folder, etc to another working server. Everything was moved over fine. Uninstall via the control panel proceeded as normal, then just failed. No choice but to exit. Now when trying to recover, and uninstall again....I cannot. I get the vague error of "An incomplete installation was detected.  Run setup to complete Exchange installation." 

Not that I want to, but tried to reinstall, but can't do that either.

I know it's a last resort and not supported, but can I just use ASDIEdit ,and manually remove the server references? If so, what is a good guide on the procedure....? I don't want spend hours pouring over setup logs and the registry if I don't have to- just want this removed from AD.

I've searched the net quite a bit on manual removal, but can't find a concise how-to...

Any help is appreciated ...Thanks

When i tried to Send mail with attachments  from google mail or yahoo mail, with Russian or Georgian names and attachment name is 8 letter or more mail cannot receive,

if attachment name is in English, mail with attachment can receive.

what can be reason of that?  is there any limitation or it CU12 bug? 

p.s.  i have other mail server with cu6 and it can receive any attachment with no limitation in name 

I can't believe it took me four months to get Outlook 2013 connected to my new Exchange Server 2013 sp1.  Granted I wasn't working on this problem full-time due to being over-medicated.  I went down many bogus troubleshooting paths and it wasn't until yesterday I came across

https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/autodiscoverconfiguration.htm

and discovered that the Exchange 2013 sp1 install onto Server 2013 R2 did not configure Autodiscover.  Why not?  The install had all of the information needed to perform this task.  It's one of those gotchas that I've become so less tolerant of.  With my persecution syndrome, I suspect I'm seeing more of these gotchas from Microsoft being seeded into their installs in order to force us all onto their cloud.

Microsoft:  Why do you place this type of gotha into the installs of recent products?  I'm just asking.

- Michael Faklis

in the ecp I have a migartion called pfmigration that is hung on completing status and i am unable to cancel it or delete the request.

We lost power in the middle of our public folder migration and I believe this is what caused this.

I am now trying to do the public folder migration again but am getting an error when i run the following command.

.

When I run the command -get-publicfoldermigrationrequest There is nothing.

Tried get-moverequest with every possible variable and still nothing.

I am trying to get our exchange server to exchange 2013. I am doing a transition with Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013.

Exchange Server 2003 is at SP2.  Server to temporarily run Exchange 2010 is Server 2012 Std.  I have the 2003 exchange in Native mode.  Domain and Forest are at 2003.  When I try to run setup /PrepareSchema on the server 2012 it fails with an error of cannot find file. Here is the setup log entries:

07/05/2016 21:46:13.0616] [2] Active Directory session settings for 'Install-ExchangeSchema' are: View Entire Forest: 'True', Configuration Domain Controller: 'mainsvr-fs2.mbstp.local', Preferred Global Catalog: 'mainsvr-fs2.mbstp.local', Preferred Domain Controllers: '{ mainsvr-fs2.mbstp.local }'
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0616] [2] Beginning processing install-ExchangeSchema -LdapFileName:'Setup\Data\PostExchange2003_schema0.ldf'
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0616] [2] Running <C:\Windows\system32\ldifde.exe> with arguments <-i -s "mainsvr-fs2.domain.local" -f "C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\Setup\Data\PostExchange2003_schema0.ldf" -j "C:\Users\administrator.MBSTP\AppData\Local\Temp\2" -c "<SchemaContainerDN>" "CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=mbstp,DC=local">.
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0632] [2] [WARNING] An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: The system cannot find the file specified
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0647] [2] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0991] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0991] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: The system cannot find the file specified
[07/05/2016 21:46:13.0991] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.InstallExchangeSchema.RunProcess(String fileName, String arguments, WriteVerboseDelegate writeVerbose)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.InstallExchangeSchema.ImportSchemaFile(String schemaMasterServer, String schemaFilePath, String macroName, String macroValue, WriteVerboseDelegate writeVerbose)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.InstallExchangeSchema.InternalProcessRecord()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord()
   at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0007] [1] [ERROR] The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
	install-ExchangeSchema -LdapFileName ($roleInstallPath + "Setup\Data\"+$RoleSchemaPrefix + "schema0.ldf")" was run: "The system cannot find the file specified".
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0007] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0007] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=ADSchemaComponent___64bd6943575045fa880b92893321a2d5 Component=EXCHANGE14:\Current\Release\Shared\Datacenter\Setup
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0007] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors.
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0007] [1] Finished executing component tasks.
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0022] [1] Ending processing Install-ExchangeOrganization
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0022] [0] The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete.  More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0038] [0] End of Setup
[07/05/2016 21:46:14.0038] [0] **********************************************

Wade Harris

Im in the middle of a rather large migration and a few users are see the below error when trying to log in to OWA:

X-OWA-Error: SDServerErr;Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException
I cant find much on this error other than the enable inheritance permissions fix which all these accounts already have.
Has anyone else come across this before?

Hi,

I am hoping I can get some feedback to what I am proposing to do to migrate to Exchange 2013.

I have 4 physical Exchange 2010 SP3 (Windows 2k8 R2) servers in a single DAG.  We will be migrating to Exchange 2013 (Windows 2k12 R2) with a single DAG.

I do not have any other physical servers to install Exchange 2013 on.

At a very high level I am wondering if I can remove 2 of the Exchange 2010 servers from the existing DAG and then rebuild them as Exchange 2013 in a new DAG.

I would then migrate the mailboxes from the Exchange 2010 servers to the new Exchange 2013 servers and finally rebuild the remaining 2 Exchange 2010 servers to Exchange 2013.

I know that the DAG Server maintenance scripts will not work correctly with only two members in a DAG.  So maintenance mode will be out the window until all 4 servers have been rebuilt to Exchange 2013.

Is there anything else that may cause a problem in what I am proposing to do.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated

Regards

Matthew Ridley

Setup.exe /prepareschema /IAcceptExchangeserverlicenseterms

gives error:  [ERROR] An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. Seehttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information. ; Any hints how to solve this?

bostjanc

Hi Dear Colleagues,

I need your advice before migration my environment, I have a forest which is example mydomain.net. Exchange server is serving this domain. I have to migrate existing active directory to my new installation that is mydomain.com. I need to know special details about all of migration process. Than i will remove old forest in my environment.

for example;

Do i need to set AvailabilityAddressSpace after the migration ?

What should be the first step ? user migration than mailbox migration ?

How can i move user profiles to new infrastructure ? there are 3.party tools that moving profiles between forests.

I have searched step by step document on the net , but i could'nt find a document that meets my expectation.

Thank you.

Fresh install running in coexistence mode, created test user on exchange 2013 mbx1, can not get autodiscover to work... it keeps returning HTTP error 400 Bad request. Any suggestions ?

[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts>Test-OutlookWebServices | fl
Creating a new session for implicit remoting of "Test-OutlookWebServices" command...

RunspaceId          : a3a825b3-f752-4b7d-b461-9cdc263f0398
Source              : MBX1.domain.com
ServiceEndpoint     : mail.domain.com
Scenario            : AutoDiscoverOutlookProvider
ScenarioDescription : Autodiscover: Outlook Provider
Result              : Failure
Latency             : 411
Error               : System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
                         at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
                         at
                      Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.ServiceValidatorBase.InternalInvoke()
                         at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.ServiceValidatorBase.Invoke()
Verbose             : [2013-05-06 18:42:58Z] Autodiscover connecting to
                      'https://mail.domain.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml'.
                      [2013-05-06 18:42:58Z] Test account:extest_47f5c08502074@domain.com Password: ******
                      [2013-05-06 18:42:58Z] Autodiscover request:
                      User-Agent:MBX1/Test-OutlookWebServices/extest_47f5c08502074@domain.com
                      Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
                      Host: mail.domain.com
                      [2013-05-06 18:42:58Z] Autodiscover request:
                      <?xml version="1.0"?>
                      <Autodiscover xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
                      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                      xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/requestschema/2006">
                        <Request>
                          <EMailAddress>extest_47f5c08502074@domain.com</EMailAddress>
                          <AcceptableResponseSchema>http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/response
                      schema/2006a</AcceptableResponseSchema>
                        </Request>
                      </Autodiscover>
                      [2013-05-06 18:42:58Z] Autodiscover response:
                      Connection: Keep-Alive
                      Content-Length: 11
                      Content-Type: text/html
                      Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 18:42:58 GMT
                      Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
                      X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
                      [2013-05-06 18:42:58Z] Autodiscover response:
                      System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
                         at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
                         at
                      Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.ServiceValidatorBase.InternalInvoke()
                         at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.ServiceValidatorBase.Invoke()
MonitoringEventId   : 6001

This error occur, when trying to Remove-ADPermission for 'NT Authority\Authenticated Users'

Active Directory operation failed on DC01.domain.com. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Access
is denied.
Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr: DSID-03152612, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0
    + CategoryInfo          : WriteError: (0:Int32) [Remove-ADPermission], ADOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=ExchBackend01,RequestId=c3a07fb3-b455-4b0f-b77f-fc17703ce5e6,TimeStamp=7/7/2016 12:28:2
   9 PM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-ADOperationException] 38B0AD9C,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.RemoveAD
  Permission
    + PSComputerName        : ExchFront01.domain.com

Can anyone help?

Hi,

Is it possible to upgrade Exchange 2013 trial 180 days to standard version (with a valid licence key) or you have to uninstall the trial version and reinstall the standard version?

Thank you.

Hi Ladies and Gents,

I am looking for some help removing Exchange from a server without removing people from Active Directory.

Could someone help me out?

Thanks.

Alex

Alex Olver

Hi everyone,

I've successfully installed multiple Mailbox and CAS 2013 SP1 servers into an existing Exchange 2010 environment.

However, when I get to the Edge Transport role on a separate server, at step 7 of 9, it throws the following error:

Error:

The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
	new-ExchangeServer" was run: "Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: Cannot get child of ADObjectId:	this is a GUID based ADObjectId.".

Any ideas what could be causing this? I haven't been able to find anything of significance while searching around...

Thanks!

Hi there,

Environment: Exchange 2013 CU12 (fresh install)
Command: "Setup.exe /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms" --> Successful
Command: "Setup.exe /PrepareAD  /ON:"Company A" /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms" -->
Error: Could not find the default Administrative Group 'Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)

A check via adsiedit shows the correct creation of "CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)".
Maybe an permission issue?

The AD did contain an old Exchange 2003 environment including an administrative Group from an orphaned SBS2003 Environment. The whole subtree CN=Microsoft Exchange was deleted before Setup

Please help!

C:\Temp\E2K13CU12>Setup.exe /PrepareAD  /ON:"FIRMA" /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 12 Unattended Setup
Dateien werden kopiert...
Dateikopiervorgang beendet. Setup erfasst nun zusätzliche für die Installation erforderliche Informationen.

Die Voraussetzungen für Microsoft Exchange Server werden überprüft

    Analyse der Voraussetzungen                                                                                                                               ABGESCHLOSSEN
 Setup bereitet die Organisation mithilfe von 'Setup /PrepareAD' auf Exchange 2013 vor. In dieser Topologie wurden keine Exchange 2007-Serverrollen erkannt. Nach diesem Vorgang kön
nen Sie keine Exchange 2007-Server mehr installieren.
 Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie unter: http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.NoE12ServerWarning.aspx

 Setup bereitet die Organisation mithilfe von 'Setup /PrepareAD' auf Exchange 2013 vor. In dieser Topologie wurden keine Exchange 2010-Serverrollen erkannt. Nach diesem Vorgang kön
nen Sie keine  Exchange 2010-Server mehr installieren.
 Weitere Informationen erhalten Sie unter: http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.NoE14ServerWarning.aspx

Microsoft Exchange Server wird konfiguriert

    Vorbereitung der Organisation                                                                                                                             FEHLER
     Der folgende Fehler wurde generiert, als "$error.Clear();
        initialize-ExchangeConfigurationPermissions -DomainController $RoleDomainController

" ausgeführt wurde: "Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.DefaultAdministrativeGroupNotFoundException: Die administrative Standardgruppe 'Exchange Administrative G
roup (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)' wurde nicht gefunden.
   bei Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.ADTopologyConfigurationSession.<GetAdministrativeGroup>b__66()
   bei Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Diagnostics.ADScenarioLog.InvokeWithAPILog[T](DateTime whenUTC, String name, Guid activityId, String implementation, String caller, Func`1
action, Func`1 getDcFunc)
   bei Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.SystemConfiguration.ADTopologyConfigurationSession.InvokeWithAPILogging[T](Func`1 action, String memberName)
   bei Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.InitializeConfigPermissions.InternalBeginProcessing()
   bei Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<BeginProcessing>b__5()
   bei Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".

Setup von Exchange Server wurde nicht abgeschlossen. Weitere Details finden Sie im Protokoll 'ExchangeSetup.log' im Ordner '<SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs'.

Hi Guys,

For the Migration of the Exchange server 2010 , I need to change the Internal URL for exchange services.

Current Setup: EX2010: CAS

                         EX2010B: Mailbox, HubTransport

At the Moment my Internal URL are like this.

https://svv-ex2010.domain.com/owa
https://svv-ex2010.domain.com/ecp
https://svv-ex2010.domain.com/OAB
https://svv-ex2010.domain.com/Micorsoft-Server-ActiveSync
https://svv-ex2010.domain.com/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml

and i am Planning to have more than 2 Client access server and since this is the migration of Exchange 2010 server. I want to change the Internal URL's with

https://mail.domain.com/owa
https://mail.domain.com/ecp
https://mail.domain.com/OAB
https://mail.domain.com/Micorsoft-Server-ActiveSync
https://mail.domain.com/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml

So for that I have created the DNS A Records with the Current Client Access ServerIP :192.168.1.10

I have also made the DNS-Resolve query to to check if i get the result or not and here is the Output.

PS C:\Users\test_admin> Resolve-DnsName imail

Name                                           Type   TTL   Section    IPAddress
----                                           ----   ---   -------    ---------
mail.domain.com                                A      3600  Answer     192.168.1.10(Current Ex )
mail.domain.com                                A      3600  Answer     192.168.1.11 (In future)

so i think i am ready with the New Namespace. (mail.domain.com) and later i can assign this Name spaces to all the services.

But my Problem comes at the Point of SSL Certificate. For Internal Clients we are using Self Signed Certificate with Private CA.we have Internal AD CS Services.

the Current SSL certificate which is being used at the moment doesn't have themail.domain.com as SAN Name.

so I am bit confused with Whole Process, how should i start here.

As far as i understood i need to re-request the certificate and then use the new Certificate with new SAN Name: mail.domain.com.

and then change the Internal URL of the Exchange server.

Guys,Please Help me and give me some tips , My problem is really complicated for me. i dont want to disturb the running workflow, therefore i am trying to prepared for all small issue.

it will be really nice if you guys can give me some tips about requesting the New Certificate with Correct SAN name and change the Internal URL for the migration.