I have an admin who can't get the Exchange 2013 Management Tools to install. He's in site that only has a Read Only Domain Controller. I know installing Exchange Server requires a writable DC, but does this apply to installing the Management Tools?
Below is portions of the setup log showing the errors.
The strange part is tul-rdc01.dsroot.domain.com is the forest's root domain. Our users and computers are in corp.domain.com.
We're running setup.exe from an elevated command prompt. The domain controller we specify in the same site as the user.
[11/05/2015 14:07:38.0665] [0] RuntimeAssembly was started with the following command: '/mode:Install /Roles:MT /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /DomainController:esh-cdc01.corp.domain.com /sourcedir:C:\IT\Exchange2013CU9'.
[11/05/2015 14:07:45.0386] [0] Setup is choosing the domain controller to use
[11/05/2015 14:07:45.0451] [0] We have a user-specified or previously-chosen domain controller: esh-cdc01.corp.domain.com
[11/05/2015 14:07:55.0264] [0] [ERROR] Setup encountered a problem while validating the state of Active Directory: The user-specified domain controller ESH-CDC01.Corp.domain.com is not available or cannot be contacted. See the Exchange setup log for more
information on this error.
[11/05/2015 14:07:55.0265] [0] Setup will use the domain controller ''.
[11/05/2015 14:07:55.0266] [0] Setup will use the global catalog ''.
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0202] [1] Finished [Analysis:Prereq] [Duration:00:00:02.1531289]
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0207] [1] Failed [Rule:CannotAccessAD] [Message:Either Active Directory doesn't exist, or it can't be contacted.]
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0215] [1] [REQUIRED] Either Active Directory doesn't exist, or it can't be contacted.
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0215] [1] Help URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.CannotAccessAD.aspx
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0231] [1] Ending processing test-SetupPrerequisites
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0233] [0] CurrentResult console.ProcessRunInternal:136: 1
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0234] [0] Exchange Server installation failed during prereq check. Trying to restore the server state back to active.
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0234] [0] RestoreServer Script Path: C:\windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\RestoreServerOnPrereqFailure.ps1
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0397] [0] Beginning processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0399] [0] Trying to restore server state.
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0400] [0] Ending processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0422] [0] Active Directory session settings for 'Get-ExchangeServer' are: View Entire Forest: 'True',
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0422] [0] User specified parameters: -ErrorAction:'SilentlyContinue' -Identity:'ESH5NMPY52'
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0422] [0] Beginning processing get-ExchangeServer
[11/05/2015 14:08:09.0455] [0] Searching objects "ESH5NMPY52" of type "Server" under the root "$null".
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0081] [0] Previous operation run on domain controller 'tul-rdc01.dsroot.domain.com'.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0090] [0] Previous operation run on domain controller 'tul-rdc01.dsroot.domain.com'.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0091] [0] Preparing to output objects. The maximum size of the result set is "Unlimited".
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0093] [0] The operation couldn't be performed because object 'ESH5NMPY52' couldn't be found on 'tul-rdc01.dsroot.domain.com'.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0107] [0] The operation couldn't be performed because object 'ESH5NMPY52' couldn't be found on 'tul-rdc01.dsroot.domain.com'.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0115] [0] Ending processing get-ExchangeServer
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0122] [0] Beginning processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0126] [0] [WARNING] ESH5NMPY52 is not an Exchange Server. Unable to set monitoring and server state to active.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0129] [0] Ending processing Write-ExchangeSetupLog
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0132] [0] CurrentResult launcherbase.maincore:90: 1
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0132] [0] CurrentResult console.startmain:52: 1
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0132] [0] CurrentResult SetupLauncherHelper.loadassembly:452: 1
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0133] [0] The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0133] [0] CurrentResult main.run:235: 1
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0133] [0] The registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\V15\Setup, wasn't found.
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0133] [0] CurrentResult setupbase.maincore:396: 1
[11/05/2015 14:08:10.0135] [0] End of Setup
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