I had installed Exchange 2013 SP1 and it seemed to be working correctly. I installed CU7 and everything fell apart. Massive errors all over the place. I gave up and removed all mailboxes, removed the databases, and uninstalled Exchange 2013. I then went into ADUC and manually removed the remaining system mailboxes.
I reloaded a brand new install of Server 2012 R2 (same name as previous exchange 2013 install) and I went to install Exchange 2013 again. I ran it from the GUI and did not run /PrepareSchema or /PrepareAD in advance. My understanding was that running the GUI would do this and since the prepare schema switch in particular is unnecessary since the schema was already updated from the previous install I did not worry about it.
Install fails with:
Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
if ( ($server -eq $null) -and ($RoleIsDatacenter -ne $true) )
{
Update-RmsSharedIdentity -ServerName $RoleNetBIOSName
}
" was run: "Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.RmsSharedIdentityUserNotFoundException: RMS Shared Identity user FederatedEmail.4c1f4d8b-8179-4148-93bf-00a95fa1e042 not found.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow, String helpUrl)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.UpdateRmsSharedIdentity.Link()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.UpdateRmsSharedIdentity.InternalProcessRecord()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".
So yes the federated mailbox referenced above does not exist. As I said I thought the install would have run the /PrepareAD steps and created it. So I try and run the setup /PrepareAD myself to generate the system mailboxes and that fails:
PS C:\Users\administrator.mydomain.local\Downloads\Exchange2013cu7> .\setup /PrepareAD /IacceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 Unattended Setup
Copying Files...
File copy complete. Setup will now collect additional information needed for installation.
Mailbox role: Transport service
Mailbox role: Client Access service
Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service
Mailbox role: Mailbox service
Client Access role: Front End Transport service
Client Access role: Client Access Front End service
Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check
Configuring Prerequisites
COMPLETED
Prerequisite Analysis
FAILED
A Setup failure previously occurred while installing the HubTransportRole role. Either run Setup again for just thi
s role, or remove the role using Control Panel.
For more information, visit:
http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.InstallWatermar
k.aspx
The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the
<SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
So looking in the ExchangeSetup.log I find this:
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0524] [1] User specified parameters:
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0524] [1] Beginning processing Get-SendConnector
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0587] [1] Searching objects of type "SmtpSendConnectorConfig" with filter "$null", scope "SubTree" under the root "Administrative Groups".
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0587] [1] Request filter in Get Task: (&(objectCategory=msExchRoutingSMTPConnector)(|(&(msExchVersion<=1125899906842624)(!(msExchVersion=1125899906842624)))(!(msExchVersion=*)))).
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0665] [1] Previous operation run on domain controller 'DC1.mydomain.local'.
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0665] [1] Preparing to output objects. The maximum size of the result set is "Unlimited".
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0696] [1] Ending processing Get-SendConnector
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0696] [1] Evaluated [Rule:SendConnectorException] [HasException:False] [Value:"False"] [ParentValue:"System.DirectoryServices.ResultPropertyCollection"] [Thread:41] [Duration:00:00:09.9289411]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0696] [1] Finished [Rule:SendConnectorException] [Duration:00:00:09.9444335]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0712] [1] Evaluated [Setting:PowerShellExecutionPolicy] [HasException:False] [Value:"False"] [ParentValue:"<NULL>"] [Thread:45] [Duration:00:00:09.9445571]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0712] [1] Finished [Setting:PowerShellExecutionPolicy] [Duration:00:00:09.9445571]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0712] [1] Evaluated [Rule:PowerShellExecutionPolicyCheckSet] [HasException:False] [Value:"False"] [ParentValue:"<NULL>"] [Thread:45] [Duration:00:00:09.9445571]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0712] [1] Finished [Rule:PowerShellExecutionPolicyCheckSet] [Duration:00:00:09.9445571]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0727] [1] Finished [Analysis:Prereq] [Duration:00:00:10.2101752]
[12/22/2014 23:32:27.0743] [1] Failed [Rule:InstallWatermark] [Message:A Setup failure previously occurred while installing the HubTransportRole role. Either run Setup again for just this role, or remove the role using Control Panel.]
Stuck. Can't finish install, can't uninstall.
I should also mention. I have a working Exchange 2007 server in the environment.