I have been trying to install Exchange 2013 for a while now and have continued to run into the same error during the readiness check. The readiness check stalls at 40% completed and I receive the following error:
Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
if (Get-Service MSDTC*|?{$_.Name -eq 'MSDTC'})
{
Set-Service MSDTC -StartupType Automatic
Start-SetupService -ServiceName MSDTC
}
"was run:"The task failed because a Win32 error occurred: "Access is denied". Could not open the service "MSDTC".".
I have tried to install this both onto Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as Windows Server 2012. I have installed all of the prerequisites as noted in the Microsoft documentation. I have tried to install this as the first Exchange server in a brand new AD environment as well as trying to install it into an AD environment where I had already installed Exchange Server 2010 with SP3. I always receive the same error message during the readiness check when it stalls at 40%.
Any help here would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.