Looking for some advice on ways forward to resolve an issue with the setup of an Exchange 2013 server (Server 2012 R2 cas & mailbox) into a test environment that has 2 exchange 2010 servers running on server 2008 r2.  Servers are hosted on WMware and 2010 exchange are configured as hybrid servers

Downloaded Exchange 2013 CU12.  Install went fine with no errors.  I can access Exchange Admin Centre and view 2010 servers . I can add new mailboxes on the default mailbox which is created with Exchange 2013.  The issue starts when I start to open a session of Exchange management shell I get the below error. Connections fails with error 504

Has anyone seen this error before and know a fix - have found this article but there's no fix https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/60873037-b04d-41fc-ae66-261e2db4af12/the-winrm-client-received-an-http-status-504-from-the-remote-wsmanagement?forum=exchange2010

What's the advice on moving forward with this issue?

thanks in advance 

VERBOSE: Connecting to EX13MB1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk.

New-PSSession : [ex13mb1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk] Connecting to remote server ex13mb1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk failed with the

following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 504 from the remote WS-Management service.

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 : -2144108273,PSSessionOpenFailed

VERBOSE: Connecting to EX13MB1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk.

New-PSSession : [ex13mb1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk] Connecting to remote server ex13mb1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk failed with the

following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 504 from the remote WS-Management service.

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 : -2144108273,PSSessionOpenFailed

VERBOSE: Connecting to XMBS1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk.

New-PSSession : [xmbs1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk] Connecting to remote server xmbs1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk failed with the following

error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 504 from the remote WS-Management service. 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 : -2144108273,PSSessionOpenFailed

VERBOSE: Connecting to CAHT1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk.

New-PSSession : [caht1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk] Connecting to remote server caht1.xmail.mmu.ac.uk failed with the following

error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 504 from the remote WS-Management service. For more

information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

At line:1 char:1

+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...

• Sorry, I couldn't find access to Exchange 2010 forum.  2013 maybesimilar or I'm hoping someone has experience who can help.
• We are currently running a Hybrid environment (Exchange 2010 & Office 365) When we are creating email accounts we are running into a problem. Our E-mail Address policy for students (under Organization Configuration\Hup Transport --] E-mail Address Policies TAB) is%g.%s@student.saultcollege.ca. When we have students with the same name each following email address receives a number at the end of the first part of the email address eq.bob.smith2@student.saultcollege.ca,bob.smith3@student.saultcollege.ca. Our problem arises when we get to 10 email addresses with the same name. After the 9 it starts putting randomcharacters as part of the email address.bob.smith9@student.saultcollege.ca bob.smith2fd43@student.saultcollege.ca. 
• We need consistency and am hoping to figure out how to keep the numbers counting sequential after 9.bob.smith10@student.saultcollege.ca bob.smith11@student.saultcollege.ca
• Is there a method to resolve this?
• Much thanks, Randy

• Sorry, I couldn't find access to Exchange 2010 forum.  2013 maybesimilar or I'm hoping someone has experience who can help.
• We are currently running a Hybrid environment (Exchange 2010 & Office 365) When we are creating email accounts we are running into a problem. Our E-mail Address policy for students (under Organization Configuration\Hup Transport --] E-mail Address Policies TAB) is%g.%s@student.saultcollege.ca. When we have students with the same name each following email address receives a number at the end of the first part of the email address eq.bob.smith2@student.saultcollege.ca,bob.smith3@student.saultcollege.ca. Our problem arises when we get to 10 email addresses with the same name. After the 9 it starts putting randomcharacters as part of the email address.bob.smith9@student.saultcollege.ca bob.smith2fd43@student.saultcollege.ca. 
• We need consistency and am hoping to figure out how to keep the numbers counting sequential after 9.bob.smith10@student.saultcollege.ca bob.smith11@student.saultcollege.ca
• Is there a method to resolve this?
• Much thanks, Randy

Mudasir

Hi,

My environment is a pure Exchange 2010 environment and we are going to migrate to Exchange Online.

My plan is to deploy a couple of Exchange 2013 "Hybrid" servers for Hybrid and MRS Proxy endpoints.

In a normal upgrade situation, the best practice is to move the namespace from Exchange 2010 to 2013 for Autodiscover,OWA, EWS etc. As these servers will never host any mailboxes on the and will eventually just be management boxes, is there any value in moving the namespace and actually, could it be more detrimental as I have 8 CAS servers in Exchange 2010 and only 2 hybrids. I understand that the 2013s would proxy requests for 2010 mailboxes etc.

My gut feel is just to leave everything point to 2010 whilst we are migrating.

Any thoughts?

 I have just finished a new build of two different sites that house exchange 2013 servers. When I setup ADSS per Microsoft best practices and other professionals suggestions the Active Directory Topology service stops. Each site has two DC's, proper subnets, one bridgehead server and the inter site replication set to 15 minutes which will be temporary. When I move the DC's back into a mesh topology exchange will work fine and all services start. The sites currently are not behind a firewall and are only separated by subnets in my building on fiber. In the future they will be separated by a Satellite WAN link. 

I can't change the display language default folder(Inbox, Send Items...) mailbox in Outlook App Mobile, mailbox still on On-premises. My enviroment is Exchange hybird 2013 and have enable Hybird Modern Authentication.

I have to try change language and region in OWA from English to Japan, but it only apply for Outlook PC not apply in Outlook App Mobile.

I am beginer trying to setup exchange 2013 on premise with my testing domain name, i completed the configuration, dns entries as per some online document. Now i am able to receive emails from outside my domain(means from gmail) but i an not able to send email to outside domain (means from my domain to gamil.com). I am not getting any error or bounce email while sending to gmail.com domain. Can any one help me on this?

Below is my configuration setup:

Local : AD& DNS - 192.168.13.100

Exchange: EXS- 192.168.13.101

Local domain name: naalashaatech.local 

External Domain name : nalashaatech.site

Local DNS entries: A record points to 192.168.13.101 with the name of exs in naalashaatech.local DNS , i have created one more primary dns zone internaly with the name of nalashaatech.site and here i have below entries

A record point to 192.168.13.101 with host name of exs under nalashaatech.site

MX entry points to exs.naalashaatech.local

External DNS Entries: 

A record point to my exchange external ip address 182.72.x.y with a host name of exs

MX record points to exs.nalashaatech.site is having host  name mail & @ with 1800 TTL & priority as 5

Also i have one reverse DNS entry inside my network with network id 192.168.13.0 points to exs.naalashaatech.local

Please help me with sending emails to gmail and other domains from my domain email account test@nalashaatech.site.

Thanks in advance

Hi all,

I did New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox ... -FilePath \\....pst from working instance of Exchange 2010 and tried to Import that PST file into Exchange 2013 using Shell. As usual there was Alert that Import PST of mailbox has been queued. It was started by me, etc ...

Few hours later I ran Get-MailboxImportRequestStatistics -Identity test\mailboximport and found StatusDetail=FailedMAPI, PercentComplete=69

Because I'm going to migrate about 30 mailboxes in similar way, could you clarify what the problem is it and how to avoid it?

Thanks,

P.S. another attempt using PowerShell to Import same PST finished on 10% with FailedMAPI (or FailedOther???). Also how to figure out which user\mailboximport??? number relates to specific Import process?

HI dear expert

we have SOURCE scenario in exchange 2013 and we need to reach DESTINATION scenario like below picture .

so please give me advice in detail to reach our destination

i do not know how and where should i start .

Thank you in advance 

Hello,

I wonder if anyone can help me with this query:

we have a potential new client that would like to export the mailboxes to a MS Exchange system, not sure what the version of Zimbra it is as it is currently hosted by a third party. We are trying to avoid using Outlook export to PST as the solution.

Thank you,
Nuno

We are experiencing issues with accessing ECP on Exchange 2016 from specific networks.
We have IP restrictions set in IIS under ECP and have added the IP addresses of the new network we upgraded at one site which hasn't helped. Our old network at other locations can access ECP without any issues.
There are no errors and the sign in page refreshes after entering the credentials.
IIS logs show: 302 0 0 156 at the end.
Where can I find detailed/advanced logs for ECP logins to Exchange Server 2016.

Any leads would really help.

Thanks!

Hi,

I know ExpressRoute is not recommended (but is supported) by Microsoft for Office 365 traffic and utilising internet links is the preferred method.

We have a customer who already has an ExpressRoute configured and ready to go. My concern is that they have this configured for egress but not ingress (as they certainly don't have Autodiscover, MRS, Web services etc) configured.

There seems to be limited documentation on how this works but I am correct in thinking for Autodiscover, EWS etc we add those records into Public DNS and map it to an external IP address and Express Route will have specific routes advertised for those endpoints and external users would use the standard internet routes? 

Would there be any issue why egress traffic could go via ExpressRoute and ingress traffic traverse the internet?

Any advice greatly appreciated. We really don't want them going down the ExpressRoute method but we are having our hand forced here.

Dear Support,

We are going to upgrade exchange 2013 to 2019. my question is after migrate to Exchange 2019 and when i change the record in local DNS and port forwarding point to new exchange 2019 then my mail flow to old database will migrate automatically right? so if user of 2019 mailbox will get 2019 login page and 2013 user also will get 2019 page but it will redirect to old exchange.

Please correct me 

Yasar Altaf

Hi there!

We had an Exchange 2013 server playing all roles and providing all services to users. There was an issue where the RPC application pool and Exchange RPC client service was restarting every 20/30 minutes, thus every Outlook client was getting disconnected. We got Microsoft involved but we could not fix the issue at all. The workaround for that was to build a new server and migrate everything across to the new one.

The new server is solely running for over a week now, and the first server is down. No issues so far! All virtual directory URLs point to CNAME records that in turn point to the new server. Autodiscover, Availability, OOF, OAB, OWA, Outlook, etc all seems to be working fine. The new server is configured for SMTP (send/receive) and the certificate was also migrated over.

Now I want to remove the old server from the environment, and I just want to confirm whether uninstalling Exchange from Control panel will do the job. Should I pay attention to something particular? Is anyone aware of any manual process that has to be done prior/after uninstalling it completely?

What if the process get stuck at some point during uninstall? Is there a way of removing it manually from AD?

Thanks!

Diego de Azevedo IT Analyst - MCSE, MCITP

I have an Exchange 2013 installation started with SP1 that I have kept updated installing the Cumulative Updates when they were released.

I have observed that after each CU installation the C: free space (Exchange is installed on C:) was less then before. So I searched in the Exchange install directory and I have found a lot of sub-directories named with an Exchange build number, expecially under the ClientAccess install dir and the OWA subdir.

For instance, under C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\Owa I have many folders named "15.0.995.28", "15.0.995.32", "15.0.1044.21", "15.0.1044.27", "15.0.1076.2", "15.0.1076.10".

The C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\Owa\prem directory has the same subfolders and is consuming a lot of disk space.

As I could understand, the CU setup should remove the older files but it seems that it does not and keeps older version in these directories. I have tried installing a fresh Exchange 2013 CU8 on a new server and these directories are not present.

The question is: is that correct?

And: can I safely delete the older versions folders?

Thanks

I am currently migrating public folders from Exchange 2007 to 2013.  The first Sync of the batch job has completed.  In the 2013 ECS, I am seeing the following: 

No active public folder mailboxes were found. This happens when no public folder mailboxes are provisioned or they are
provisioned in 'HoldForMigration' mode. If you're not currently performing a migration, create a public folder mailbox.

Also, the 2013 EAC does not show any public folders.   How can I verify the folders will be available when I completed the migration.   I thought the folders were viable in the EAC during the migration, but I may be mistaken.

Please advise.

I'm trying to clean up an Exchange 2010 > 2013 migration. The 2010 servers were physically removed and trashed without uninstalling Exchange after the migration was considered complete. There were still a ton of references to 2010 servers and databases so I was tasked with cleaning it up.

​

I followed steps to recover the servers by creating VMs with same OS and name as the old 2010s. I ran the recover install on the mailbox database server and then retired it without rebooting (this may have been a mistake?). It appears that deleting the databases and uninstalling Exchange from the mailbox database server worked as its databases no longer appear in the 2013 ECP.

​

But the mailbox database server is still listed in the 2013 ECP as a "provisioned server". I have since run the 2010 setup on the server with the /RemoveProvisionedServer switch and it says it completed but it remains in the 2013 ECP. I have also run the 2013 setup on an existing 2013 server with the /RemoveProvisionedServer switch but it fails with an error which I'm not entirely sure about:

[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0234] [0] Starting Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Setup
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0234] [0] **********************************************
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0234] [0] Local time zone:
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0234] [0] Operating system version: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0250] [0] Setup version: 15.0.847.32.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0250] [0] Logged on user: DOMAIN\administrator.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0281] [0] Command Line Parameter Name='removeprovisionedserver', Value='SRV-2010MBDB'.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0281] [0] Command Line Parameter Name='sourcedir', Value='F:\'.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0516] [0] RuntimeAssembly was started with the following command: '/removeprovisionedserver:SRV-2010MBDB.DOMAIN.LOCAL /sourcedir:F:"'.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0516] [0] The registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\v8.0, wasn't found.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0516] [0] The registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14, wasn't found.
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0516] [0] Copying Files...
[10/18/2019 01:02:45.0531] [0] Starting copy from F:\Setup\ServerRoles\Common to C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup.
[10/18/2019 01:02:47.0844] [0] Finished copy from F:\Setup\ServerRoles\Common to C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup.
[10/18/2019 01:02:47.0844] [0] File copy complete. Setup will now collect additional information needed for installation.
[10/18/2019 01:02:47.0860] [0] Assembly dll file location is C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\Microsoft.Exchange.Setup.Console.dll
[10/18/2019 01:02:49.0891] [0] Setup is choosing the domain controller to use
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0063] [0] The MSExchangeADTopology has a persisted domain controller: SRV-DC2.DOMAIN.LOCAL
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] [ERROR] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] [ERROR] Method not found: 'Boolean Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Mime.MimeAddressParser.IsValidDomain(System.String, Int32, Boolean)'.
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] CurrentResult SetupLauncherHelper.loadassembly:444: 1
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete.  More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] CurrentResult main.run:235: 1
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] CurrentResult setupbase.maincore:396: 1
[10/18/2019 01:02:50.0094] [0] End of Setup

I still have the Frontend/CAS server to recover and then retire.

I removed our OWA and ECP virtual directories from Default Web Site to remove access from the outside world. Then created a new Website, assigned to a 2nd IP on the server's NIC. I added both OWA and ECP to the new site. We can access email from the new URL internally.

I can login to Exchange Admin Center and manage everything EXCEPT when I go into Servers - Virtual Directories. The Virtual Directories that were not changed work as designed. The 2 I changed I click on then the window pops open with a 500.19 error in that small window.

I need to correct that problem. I have found many articles about not being able to login to EAC this is not that. It's just the two directories management windows.

Exchange 2013 (Build 1473.3) on Server 2012r2

Thanks

Kevin Skinner