I did a complete barebones install with all the prereq's on a Server 2012 and everything went fine until I actually tried to log into the Exchange Admin Website OR the PowerShell to manage Exchange. Here is the error I get with Exchange Powershell:
VERBOSE: Connecting to exssrv.cas.local.
New-PSSession : [exssrv.cas.local] Processing data from remote server exssrv.cas.local failed with the following error
message: The WinRM Shell client cannot process the request. The shell handle passed to the WSMan Shell function is not
valid. The shell handle is valid only when WSManCreateShell function completes successfully. Change the request
including a valid shell handle and try again. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
gTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : -2144108212,PSSessionOpenFailed
Enter the server FQDN where you want to connect.:
All the services come up fine and I AM able to get into OWA. However ADMIN functions are beyond my reach. When I try to log into the ECP as Administrator It takes me to OWA! Event viewer has something weird in MS Exchange Management Log too:
System[ Name] MSExchange CmdletLogs
- EventID 6
[ Qualifiers] 49152
Level 2
Task 1
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- EventData
Get-UserPhoto
{Identity=Administrator@cas.local}
cas.local/Users/Administrator
S-1-5-21-3701730246-2317407816-1571125241-500
S-1-5-21-3701730246-2317407816-1571125241-500
Exchange Control Panel-ECP
10144
22
00:00:05.8040837
View Entire Forest: 'True', Configuration Domain Controller: 'exssrv.cas.local', Preferred Global Catalog: 'exssrv.cas.local', Preferred Domain Controllers: '{ exssrv.cas.local }'
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.UserPhotoNotFoundException: UserPhoto does not exist in the Mailbox. at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ThrowError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory errorCategory, Object target, String helpUrl) at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.GetUserPhoto.ConvertDataObjectToPresentationObject(IConfigurable dataObject) at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.GetRecipientObjectTask`2.WriteResult(IConfigurable dataObject) at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.GetTaskBase`1.WriteResult[T](IEnumerable`1 dataObjects) at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.GetObjectWithIdentityTaskBase`2.InternalProcessRecord() at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.GetRecipientObjectTask`2.InternalProcessRecord() at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord()
Client
False
0
Now I have tried everything I think i could find.. I doublechecked the Administrator permissions in the Group policy and redirect stuff in IIS and even created a self signed Cert. It gives me a login prompt when I try to go to the local ecp: http://exssrv.cas.local:81/ecp/ HOWEVER it then just takes me to OWA. Has anyone ever seen this? I am willing to try anything and would really appreciate any suggestions from the Exchange Gurus.
Thanks a million!