I have been running Exchange 2003 for years and recently added/installed Exchange 2007 as an additional VM.  I have used the Management Shell to upgrade all my address books to configure as much as possible before I move the mailboxes.  All is working fine and I am about to purchase a 3rd party cert.  NOTE: after everything is configured correctly and all mailboxes have been moved, I plan to remove the old 2003 Exchange Server.

Here's my question: right now DNS resolves port 80 and 443 traffic for OWA and Active Sync to the 2003 Exchange Server.  Before I move the mailboxes to the Exchange 2007 server, should I just modify the internal address object on my firewall to point to the 2007 Exchange Server or would it be best to add a record i.e. mail2.domain.com and add the appropriate routing on my firewall?

Thanks

Paul

Hi Everyone

Yesterday evenything was working fine, and then this morning, I`m unable to establish a connection with the Exchange shell. I receive the following errors. Any help is appreciated.

         Welcome to the Exchange Management Shell!

Full list of cmdlets: Get-Command
Only Exchange cmdlets: Get-ExCommand
Cmdlets that match a specific string: Help *<string>*
Get general help: Help
Get help for a cmdlet: Help <cmdlet name> or <cmdlet name> -?
Show quick reference guide: QuickRef
Exchange team blog: Get-ExBlog
Show full output for a command: <command> | Format-List

Tip of the day #55:

Want to view the mounted status of all mailbox databases? Type:

 Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Format-Table Name, Server, Mounted

VERBOSE: Connecting to C-EXCH02.BLCLAB.CA.
New-PSSession : [c-exch02.blclab.ca] Connecting to remote server c-exch02.blclab.ca failed with the following error
message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the
destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service
running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following
command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
   gTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConnect,PSSessionOpenFailed
VERBOSE: Connecting to C-EXCH02.BLCLAB.CA.
New-PSSession : [c-exch02.blclab.ca] Connecting to remote server c-exch02.blclab.ca failed with the following error
message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the
destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service
running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following
command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
   gTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConnect,PSSessionOpenFailed
VERBOSE: Connecting to C-EXCH01.BLCLAB.CA.
New-PSSession : [c-exch01.blclab.ca] Connecting to remote server c-exch01.blclab.ca failed with the following error
message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the
destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service
running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following
command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
   gTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConnect,PSSessionOpenFailed
VERBOSE: Connecting to C-EXCH02.BLCLAB.CA.
New-PSSession : [c-exch02.blclab.ca] Connecting to remote server c-exch02.blclab.ca failed with the following error
message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the
destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service
running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following
command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
   gTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConnect,PSSessionOpenFailed
VERBOSE: Connecting to C-EXCH01.BLCLAB.CA.
New-PSSession : [c-exch01.blclab.ca] Connecting to remote server c-exch01.blclab.ca failed with the following error
message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request. Verify that the service on the
destination is running and is accepting requests. Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service
running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM. If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following
command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". For more information, see
the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.Manageme....RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [New-PSSession], PSRemotin
   gTransportException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConnect,PSSessionOpenFailed
Failed to connect to an Exchange server in the current site.
Enter the server FQDN where you want to connect.:
VERBOSE: Connecting to .
New-PSSession : Cannot bind parameter 'ConnectionUri'. Cannot convert value
"http:///powershell?serializationLevel=Full;ExchClientVer=15.0.516.32;clientApplication=ManagementShell;TargetServer="
to type "System.Uri". Error: "Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed."
At line:1 char:30
+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...
+                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-PSSession], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewPSSessionCommand

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>

Ernie Prescott

Updated information.

I can succussfully connect to the exchange powershell from a remote computer, using this method.

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://<FQDN of Exchange 2013 Client Access server>/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos

Import-PSSession $Session

So the problem is localised on the server.

Regards

I have an Exchange server that uses a 3rd party SPAM appliance as a smarthost. It's been working great for a few years but suddenly I'm getting messages sitting the smarthostconnectordelivery queue with a status of Ready for approximately 5 minutes before sending. The good news is mail is moving, but always with a 5 minute rest in the queue before moving to the smarthost.

• There are no errors on the messages
• There are no errors on the queue
• The Protocol log doesn't shown any attempts to connect to the smart host until it has sat in the queue for about 5 minutes.
• The output of the queue is shown below

DeliveryType         : SmartHostConnectorDelivery
NextHopDomain        : smarthost-a.contoso.com,smarthost-b.contoso.com,smarthost-c.contoso.com
TlsDomain            :
NextHopConnector     : 8eb0ec78-bb81-486d-a194-65cee5be1e5d
Status               : Active
MessageCount         : 144
LastError            :
LastRetryTime        : 5/2/2013 2:52:34 PM
NextRetryTime        :
DeferredMessageCount : 0
QueueIdentity        : TRANSPORTSERVER\2970455
Identity             : TRANSPORTSERVER\2970455
IsValid              : True

The problem is very similar to the issue described here:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/f0b1a4ef-650d-4fe3-8838-4b4effbe47ed

I think the problem is smarthost related but Exchange is not giving any indication of failing to connect/getting deferred by the smarthost. Is there a log for this info?

Hi All,

I am very new to SMTP and setting up the SMTP Virtual server. I hope this is the correct forum for the Virtual Server. I have following various configurations listed in TechNet. I have a Virtual Server that is working but it seems to working incorrectly. I will explain my how my server is configured.

The SMTP is configured to accept SMTP from specific IPs listed under Access>Relay. The configuration under Access>Connection is set for "all except list below"

I have set authentication to "Basic Authentication".

I have nto configured any remote domains.

With this setup, I am able to send SMTP messages to the relay and the relay sends the message out to the remote Mail Servers. But when I look at the logs, it is sending it to the destination's Mail Server and not the sender's mail server. When I attempt to send a message to the same domain as the sender, it does not send it out.

My understanding is that the SMTP Relay function is suppose to send the mail to the sender's Mail Server then that Mail server will continue to send the message to its final destination.

Please any help is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if you require more information or if my understanding of a SMTP Relay is wrong.

Thanks

Hello,

I'm working with Exchange 2013 in a lab environment.  I've just done a clean install, but having some trouble.  I can connect externally and send/receive email, but seems like MailTips and OAB are not working properly from the outside.

Internally on the domain, it will download the OAB and show MailTips.

This is a clean install of Exchange 2013 CU1, and I've just done the peliminary setup after install.  I've been digging at this for a few days and can't seem to figure it out.

internally: mail1.corp.domain.com
externally: mail.domain.com

Appreciate your help!

Hi Guys,

It seems to be a comon issue, but when publishing Exchange 2013 owa it gives a 403 error. I've double check all config, loaded certs and change internal/external names. All works fine internally.

Any ideas?

Hello,

We are trying to move our default address book from Exchange 2007 to 2013.   We found an MS article on it but I still know no more than when I started.   Can someone please spoon feed me how to move the address book from one server to another?

Our server names are ServerOld and the 2013 server is called ServerNew, Our domain name is internaldomain.lan

When I do get-offlineaddress book it says

Default Offline Address book       {version3, version4}

Default Offline Address book (Ex2012)    {Version4}

I'm not good at figuring out what identities are in examples from MS so anyone who can tell me with the names I've provided would be very helpful.

When I do Get-OabVirtualDirectory   (The URLs internal and external are valid but we only want the new server)  The old server is going away shortly and no one is actively using it.

Server                      Name                                  Internal URL                    

ServerOld                 OAB (Default Web Site)         https:// serverold....

ServerNew                OAB(Default Web Site)          Http:// servernew...

Hello Everyone,

This is information about my scenario:

I have Exchange Server 2013 installed on Windows Server 2012.

I have 2 x Mailbox Servers configured with one DAG, the 2 members are member of this DAG and only one DB has a copy on the second server.

I have 2 CAS Servers configured with NLB on Windows Server 2012.

The Exchange 2013 is configured with Outlook Anywhere with Basic authentication on the 2 load balanced CAS servers.

The internal outlook clients connect to Exchange Server 2013 using HTTPS without any issue.

OWA for Exchange 2013 is published on TMG 2010 and OWA is working fine for internal and external computers.

The used certificate is issued from AD CS, it is imported to all the 4 Exchange Server and to  TMG and it has all the required SANs.

The Root CA certificate and CRL files are imported to user/computer store for external computers.

The Outlook anywhere is published as well  on TMG 2010 and use the same web listener configured with OWA Publishing rule.

For OWA Publishing Rule I use FBA authentication in the listener and Basic authentication in the Authentication Delegation

For Outlook Anywhere Publishing rule I use FBA authentication in the listener (cuz it uses the same OWA publishing rule's listener) and Basic authentication for authentication delegation.

Now my issue is: On external machine not joined to domain with Windows 8 and Outlook 2013 I am trying to connect using Outlook Anywhere but it keeps asking me to type the username and password.

I have checked many things but still can't log-in, so can you help me in solving this issue?!!

Regards,

Hi,

I am experiencing problems with my Exchange 2013 (CU1) Transport service after enabling and configuring NIC teaming in Windows Server 2012. I get the following eventvwr logs;

"Log Name:      System
Source:        Service Control Manager
Date:          5/4/2013 3:31:01 PM
Event ID:      7031
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      EXCHANGE.tourafrica.local
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Transport Submission service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 5000 milliseconds: Restart the service.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908d1-a6d7-4695-8e1e-26931d2012f4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49152">7031</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-05-04T12:31:01.800696500Z" />
    <EventRecordID>27012</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="540" ThreadID="21608" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>xxx.yyy.zzz</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Transport Submission</Data>
    <Data Name="param2">1</Data>
    <Data Name="param3">5000</Data>
    <Data Name="param4">1</Data>
    <Data Name="param5">Restart the service</Data>
    <Binary>4D005300450078006300680061006E00670065005300750062006D0069007300730069006F006E000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>"

Has anyone experienced the same? How did you fix it?

Regards,

Roy.

Hello,

I am looking for a PowerShell script to add new SMTP address as primary address for 2000 users and do not touch existing SMTP and X.500 addresses. Exchange server version is 2007 with SP3

Can someone help ?

Karthik R

Here is my problem. I got one root domain and two child domain installed with exchange 2013.Installed as schema extended to the Child Server.

The issue started when I added the second Child server. When I click Send and Receive on outlook its started giving error.

Started debugging and change the default hub tansport on the second server change to 2527 and outlook start working fine.

So I am not sure why I can not have the second server with the Port 2525 and Port 25 on the receiving connector. And another issue if send any email with attachment it take 2 mts to go out of the outbox my outlook. This issue all started after the second server installed.

If anyone come across this issue please let me know what you guys tried.

Hello,

we have Exchange 2013 and MS Office 2007 as clients. Mail works normally. When trying to share calendars through OWA, it works perfectly (sharing, sending request, etc.), but when using MS Outlook 2007 it doesn't work. If I click to Calendar - Share calendar it will open new message and I will select recipient from Global address list and click send, but window with error will open : "Error while preparing to send sharing message". I tried also another way, I select my Calendar and open Properties and open Rights and Add user and set him role (owner or whatever) then sent invitation and it doesn't work too. But when my recipient tries to open from his Outlook - Open shared calendar and select from GAL my name .... then my calendar opens, but it always says (in notification area - in systray) you have no permissions to do that, contact Owner or Administrator. But he is able to "see" my calendar ,no changes allowed but only preview and he is able to sell list of my meetings.

I have standard instalation with default sharing policies. Can somebody help me with this problem?


Thank you.

Regards

Pavel Hůla

How can I go about exporting the clients rules (rwz file) from 2007 exchange server to 2013 exchange server ?

I have done a PST import export from 2007 to 2013 but the rules it looks like for clients do not get imported.

Regards

Hello all,

I have a strange issue. When executing a cmdlet like Get-OWAVirtualDirectory on a Exchange 2013 server, I see this error: An IIS directory entry couldn't be created. The error message is Access is denied.

.HResult = -2147024891

And this for all (2010 and 2013) OWA virtual directories.

In a Windows Powershell with the Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.SnapIn added, the command does show the virtual directories after running the cmdlet.

The EMS (or how is it called nowadays: EAC?) has the same error as the EMS.

I have seen in other forum entries (about Exchange 2010 / 2007) that is has something to do with RBAC and the Exchange Trusted Subsytem group. I can confirm that all Exchange servers are member of this group and that the group is in the local administrators group of all exchange servers.

I'd like some help troubleshooting this.

Regards,

Stephan van der Plas

You know you're an engineer when you have no life and can prove it mathematically

Good Morning,

Hoping someone can answer this question for me.

The scenario is we are building new MB servers to add to our exisiting DAG. We will build them in and let them replicate. The idea is to then mount all the DB's over to these new server DB copies (They will mirror what we currently have just new storage, servers, and new copy) and get rid of exisiting. The reason for this is the backend storage must be changed.

We have a situation where whitespace is pretty heavy on some of our DB's. Our question is "When replication occurs to these new copies, will whitespace replicate over to them as well?

We want to start as clean as possible, so say we have 800GB used of 1TB, and 300GB of that is whitespace, will we show 500GB when they are replicated over?

Existing:

MBX-DB-01

Copy1 (Active)

Copy2

Copy3

Adding to MBX-DB-01:

Copy 4 (Will this one get the whitespace if we mount to it)

Copy 5 (Will this one get the whitespace if we mount to it)

Copy 6 (Will this one get the whitespace if we mount to it)

Thanks

Hello,

We are a mail hosting provider. We are using a Linux based mail solution for hosting.

We are considering to provide exchange mail hosting to our clients. We would like to know if Microsoft Exchange has such features where we can use as a shared mail server for hosting and provide our clients with CPanel or any web based control panel to manage their own accounts. Moreover, from technical point of view, Exchange should be installed with Active Directory to access LDAP database for single sign on. What would be the scenario of LDAP integration in case it is hosted by us as a mail hosting provider.

In short,  what solution can we consider to have something similar to Microsoft Office 365 hosted by us.

Thanks a lot.

I have two Windows 2012 Servers on Hyper-V 2012. One server is Domain Controler with other roles and second is only Exchange 2013.

From a few days/weeks I have strange errors. The worst is MSExchange ADAccess event id 4027 because when it occurs I can't connect with my Outlook to Exchange server. Even when it's some how connected Outlook is asking me for a login and password for domain.

I don't know why, but it looks for me like Exchange can't connect to DC Server, which is strange because they are both turned on. I cant see any errors on my DC server.

I tried a  few commands to test DC and Exchange server but everything looks OK.

Here is my error description. Any idea what's going on?!

Process w3wp.exe (PID=16520). WCF request (Report Server Down psbiuro.pl) to the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server (TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)) failed. Make sure that the service is running. In addition, make sure that the network ports that are used by Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service are not blocked by a firewall. The WCF call was retried 1 time(s). Error Details 
 System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[System.ArgumentException]: The value is set to null or empty
Nazwa parametru: serverName (Szczegół błędu: System.ArgumentException: The value is set to null or empty
Nazwa parametru: serverName
   w Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.ArgumentValidator.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty(String name, String arg)
   w Microsoft.Exchange.Directory.TopologyService.TopologyService.InternalReportServerDown(String partitionFqdn, String serverName, ADServerRole role)
   w Microsoft.Exchange.Directory.TopologyService.TopologyService.ExecuteServiceCall(Action action)).

I was looking all over the internet but can't find any solution.