Hello guys,

I have been working on a complex project with a customer that needs to send email from a group of users from an offline site. This site is connected just a couple of hours per day.

I am not an exchange server administrator, so, forgive me if I use some incorrect terms.

The customer has its current Exchange server setup that works for every user when they are all in the office. When they go to the offline site, they would like to be able to send message and have those messages delivered when the site is online.

However, the site goes online sporadically and the users might not have outlook opened at that moment.

My current idea is to have a relay server on this site. This server would not have a mailbox, but it would "hold" the messages until the site is connected.

By the way, the connection from this site to the office is not standard TCP/IP, so a custom transport protocol would also have to be developed and plugged to the solution.

Is this possible? Any suggestions?

Best regards,

Romano

Hello,

I finally(!!!!) successfully installed Exchange server 2013 on a test server running win server 2012 r2. My problem now is that when I try to create mailboxes with OWA, I get the message "https://localhost:444/owa" followed by "Bad Request". Now I assume this is the admin website to administer exchange server.  Why am I getting this message?  I have checked my firewall settings and I am listening for requests on port 444.  

Any suggestions would help.  This is a trial version of Exchange 2013 and we are not going to spend days trying to get this software running to decide if we will purchase this product. We also want to create test email accounts.  There is no overt tool or application under the Exchange Application header that stands out to accomplish this.  What do I do?  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

John G.

John Grace

Hi

I am currently migrating form 2007 to 2013.

I am going to use codetwo software to migrate public folders

Is there anyway of creating a publiv folder mailbox in 2013 without the "holdformigration" flag set?

I need to be able to browse in the codetwo software for this mailbox but i believe it is hidden when the flag is set

Regards

Dave

Hi there!

I adopted an existing environment with an unfinished configuration of Exchange 2013 on a domain controller. I tried to finish it, but still encounter issues, which make me believe the initial installation wasn't done properly.

What would be the best approach in this case: uninstall the existing Exchange organization and reinstall it on a new server, or install it on a new server, have all settings and mailboxes moved to the new server, and decommission the old exchange?

The mailboxes are not being used yet, so availability or settings are not an issue in this case.

Thanks!

"Fourteen years of experience in Microsoft Windows Trial and Error..."

I have an IIS ARR server which points back to my exchange server. OWA and ECP work perfectly fine.

I have set it up with the following guide:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/07/19/reverse-proxy-for-exchange-server-2013-using-iis-arr-part-1.aspx

The only thing that is not working is Outlook connectivity (both internally and externally).

I get the following error message on the MS connectivity test:

--------------

RPC Proxy can't be pinged.
     
Additional Details
An unexpected network-level exception was encountered. Exception details:
Message: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.Type: Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Extensions.MapiTransportException

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I tested the exchange server direct (i.e. without ARR) and it works as expected. I think it has something to do with the credentials not being passed between ARR and the exchange server because if I am on the local network, I can go straight to the exchange server / rpc (via https://servername/rpc) and it prompts for credentials once and gives me a blank page (expected) whereas if I go via ARR it prompts for credentials but doesn't accept them (just prompts again and again and again).

Anyone manage to fix this issue?

Thanks.

We have multiple sites all running their own Exchange 2010 servers with all Archive mailboxes hosted in our primary datacentre.

We are now migrating those sites to new Exchange 2013 servers, and the Primary Mailboxes are being moved to local Exchange 2013 servers, and the Archives are being moved to Exchange 2013 Archive Databases hosted in the primary datacentre.

For example, user is in Site B with Archive hosted in Site A. New Exchange server is in Site B. New Archive Exchange Server is in Site A.

When I instigate the move, the move request is using the MRS Server in Site B, which is moving the Primary Mailbox nicely. However, and here is the big issue, it is moving the archive in Site A, via Site B, back to Site A.

That is a real issue when the network link between site A and site B can only provide about a 10MB link, due to everything else running on the link.

How can we get the Primary to use an MRS Server in its own site, and the Archive move to use an MRS Server in its own site, without doing the move via the MRS Server in a different site?

We can't change the MRS Server setting using the set-moverequest and we can't move the Primary with one command and the Archive with another as they complain about being on 2010 or 2013 only, not one on each.

Please help, this is getting to be a big issue

Thanks

I keep getting the following error:

Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          if (!$RoleIsDatacenter)
          {
            $arbUsers = @(get-user -Filter {lastname -eq "MSExchApproval 1f05a927-3be2-4fb9-aa03-b59fe3b56f4c"} -IgnoreDefaultScope -ResultSize 1);
            if ($arbUsers.Length -ne 0)
            {
              $mbxname = $arbUsers[0].name;
              $mbxs = @( get-mailbox -arbitration -Filter {name -eq $mbxname} -IgnoreDefaultScope -resultSize 1 );
              if ( $mbxs.length -eq 0)
              {
                $dbs = @(get-MailboxDatabase -Server:$RoleFqdnOrName -DomainController $RoleDomainController);
                if ($dbs.Length -ne 0)
                {
                  enable-mailbox -Arbitration -identity $arbUsers[0] -database $dbs[0].Identity;
                }
              }
            }
          }" was run: "Active Directory operation failed on servername.domain.com. This error is not retriable. Additional information: An attempt was made to modify an object to include an attribute that is not legal for its class.
Active directory response: 0000207D: UpdErr: DSID-03151222, problem 6002 (OBJ_CLASS_VIOLATION), data -1814126740".

When I go into ADSI Edit:

Configuration > CN Services > Microsoft Exchange > OrganizationName >  Administrative Groups > Exchange Administrative Groups > Databases

I have 3 Mailbox Databases listed. Should I delete 1 or all of them?

Dear Sir

I Trying to upgrade my exchange server 2013 to CU6 but I got this error so I want to go back to previous version before update

and this is the massage that I got in upgrade installation

Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          $maxWait = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 8
          $timeout = Get-Date;
          $timeout = $timeout.Add($maxWait);
          $currTime = Get-Date;
          $successfullySetConfigDC = $false;

          while($currTime -le $timeout)
          {
            $setSharedCDCErrors = @();
            try
            {
              Set-SharedConfigDC -DomainController $RoleDomainController -ErrorVariable setSharedCDCErrors -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;
              $successfullySetConfigDC = ($setSharedCDCErrors.Count -eq 0);

              if($successfullySetConfigDC)
              {
                break;
              }
              Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("An error ocurred while setting shared config DC. Error: " + $setSharedCDCErrors[0]);
            }
            catch
            {
              Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("An exception ocurred while setting shared config DC. Exception: " + $_.Exception.Message);
            }

            Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Waiting 30 seconds before attempting again.");
            Start-Sleep -Seconds 30;
            $currTime = Get-Date;
          }

          if( -not $successfullySetConfigDC)
          {
            Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Error "Unable to set shared config DC.";
          }
        " was run: "System.Exception: Unable to set shared config DC.
   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)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.WriteExchangeSetupLog.InternalProcessRecord()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String funcName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".

Please is there any solution because it is very argent issue 

Best Regards

Rawa Zangana

Dear Experts

My requirement is to place one Edge Transport in Each client site so that Edge transport  in client site can forward emails to client's mailbox domain (Only client domain and mailboxes are on different hosted environment) to Internet and another requirement is  Edge Transport in Vendor site must be able to send/receive emails from Internet for Vendor's domain Only.

Same time in each site there is one Monitoring application that only uses insecure ports (pop/smtp) to send/receive emails in each client site. Monitor application has mailbox in Vendor site.

Do you thing this design is doable without any problem?

Thanks Cloudy Lynx

I have exchange 2013 installed on win 2012 r2.

One day a technician came to install a * certificate and then we cannot access the management console.

When we connect we put the username and pass and nothing happens.

So I installed exchange on a virtual server with the 2 roles and finally managed to access the management console but unfortunately only for 2 day.

I think we have an authentication problem in the IIS.

Help please

Hi,

My Customer is planing to upgrade from Exchange Server 2007 SP1 to Exchange Server 2013 SP1 CU5.

For this i have to prepare a Hardware requirement for Deploying Exchange Server 2013 SP1, I Know the Mini. requirement for Installing Exchange 2013 but not able to find any tool or calculator for Calculating Hardware requirement for Limited number of users.

Current 2007 organizational details below

Number of users: 1000 Users

Exchange Server details:

2 Mailbox Servers

1 CAS servers

1 Edge Servers

we are using Iron Port for Filtering Mails from and to Internet.

Planning for Exchange 2013 High Availability setup with

2 CAS Servers in NLB

2 Mailbox Servers in DAG, 4 databases with 5 GB,5 GB,2.5 GB and 1 GB Quota Limits 

2 Edge Servers

Going to use same Iron Port for filtering

Anyone can help me with hardware configuration for the above Exchange 2013 servers for 1000 users?

CPU:      ?

RAM:     ?

Hard Disk(with RAID Config.): ?

Network Card:  ?

Also Help me with Database sizing (LUN):  ?

Thanks,

Sudheesh Surendran

I have setup Exchange 2013 SP1 on Server 2012R2 from scratch. I have added AD users and setup all the mailboxes for them.

However, when I try to send email from OWA to internal mail accounts, other users cannot receive and mail at all.

I have tried to send a email to my own account and I still cannot receive anything.

There is no other setting I have done at all.

Please let me know what information I need to provide to solve the issue.

Hello,

i am doing a mailbox move of 140 GB from exchange 2007 (sbs2008) to exchange 2013.

This move is very slow (20 GB is 5,5 Hours).

I can see high cpu-usage on the sbs2008-server for store.exe (between 80-100 %).

What can i do to speed up this process for now and in future migrations like this?

Thx

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

I started getting the following message after a reboot last night.  I again rebooted the server and continue to get the message about once a minute. I see the service starting and stopping.  I am actively migrating mailboxes, but this is appearing on the passive DAG database node. Thoughts?

Event 7031

The Microsoft Exchange Migration Workflow service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 5000 milliseconds: Restart the service.

Trying to setup an Exchange 2013 server, with the DC and Exchange on same machine. WHen I try to deliver for either of the 2 mailboxes I have setup, I get this error.

The server returned status code 451 - Error in processing. The server response was: 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX3 

It doesn't seem to be a resource issue (I'm running an XL instance on Azure), and all other connectivity works fine (and fast). I just can't receive email there. 

Looking in the event logs, I saw one issue related to the Front End HTTP proxy, but I wouldn't assume that's relevant here. (And connectivity via Outlook & OWA seem to be fine, with the exception of some redirect issues on the latter).

I did end up installing Exchange on a secondary drive for space considerations, so the location is different... not sure if that would factor in either.

Any ideas? I don't even really know where to start debugging this. I'm trying to set this up to work on some event sync/forwarding code.

Exchange 2013 SP1 to a new server. I just realized that I have been asking migration questions on the "general" forum. Here's the deal:

We just want to move to a newer server and reuse the "old" server as a DAG member. We have a production exchange 2013 SP1 server and I found that the DB is not on a RAID'ed drive. So, we purchased a server. I installed 2012 R2 and all windows updates. Then installed exchange 2013 SP1. Then got our AS/AV software installed. When I boot the new server up and login to ECP, it sees all the exchange users, DB and info. So, I followed:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876926(v=exchg.150).aspx

to migrate users and current email to the new DB. However, when users logged in their current email was not there. I also tried to use the ECP migration option and this resulted in the same, users old email was not in their inbox. So I had to perform that same process on the old DB to get users old email back. I then tried to use the migration option in the ECP->same issue. So as of now, we are on the old DB and things are working fine.

According to:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997006(v=exchg.65).aspx

When moving from server to server, the DB filename must be the same. The non-production server does not have the same DB filename. Could this be the problem? Could someone point me to documentation on migrating from server to server

During Migration test runs from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 we ran into a problem:

some users appear to have mailboxfolders in different languages like "Deleted Items" and "Verwijderde Items", but not all users an also not all folders for that user

If the "deleted Items" folder was the system folder in EX2010, then after migration that user, being migrated to the new server where the default mailbox setting regional nl-NL, his new DeletedItems system folder is : "Verwijderde Items" but it is empty.

Okay, this is no big deal, all the items can be found in the still existing "Deleted Items" folder, select all items and drag them to the Verwijderde items.... then delete the Deleted items folder (it is no longer a system folder so it CAN be deleted)

But it also happened to a user with his "Calendar" and "agenda": And now his agenda was empty, and on his iPhone after a very short time ALL his appointments were gone. (synchronization) Even more distressing for that user, it happened ALSO to his "Contacts" and "Contacten" : After synchronization he lost all his contacts ; you can imagine this users happy face ?

I Found the script Fix_Mailboxfolders.ps1 and ran it but since the regional setting on ex2010 was also nl-NL it did not work

My last resort was to export his restored old mailbos to a pst and disabled his mailbox, created a new one for him en imported the PST again... problem solved: but now his email UID has changed and ALL his appointments with other users get a "unknown user" message.

SO my question is:

How can I migrate a user who is known to have different foldernames (both dutch and US) and make sure the Dutch folder gets to be the system folder AND has all the items in it from de Us folder, AND the US folder gets deleted?

Anyone with a good powershell knowledge? There are about 100 users with duplicate Foldernames in the wrong language

I know the following arguments:

Mailbox userID, current System Foldername, New System Foldername,. I can run a script Before migration or After.

Regards Fons

I'm attempting to upgrade Exchange 2013 and am seeing the following error message. I've been unable to get past it and haven't found any helpful information in my research on what to do. Thoughts?

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Unattended Setup
Languages
Mailbox role: Transport service
Client Access role: Front End Transport service
Mailbox role: Client Access service
Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service
Mailbox role: Mailbox service
Management tools
Client Access role: Client Access Front End service

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

    Configuring Prerequisites                                                                         FAILED
     The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          if (Get-Service WinMgmt* | ?{$_.Name -eq 'WinMgmt'})
          {
            Set-Service WinMgmt -StartupType Automatic
            Start-SetupService -ServiceName WinMgmt
          }
        " was run: "Service 'Windows Management Instrumentation (WinMgmt)' cannot be configured due to the following err
or: Access is denied".

    Prerequisite Analysis                                                                             COMPLETED

The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the
<SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.