I have a clean install of an Exchange 2013 CU7 (MBX & CAS) on W2K12R2 Standard. This is a VM running on ESXi 5.5.

When I run the BPA, I get some errors related to the new "Managed Avalibility" feature:

I have "Check server health entry" for Mapi.Submit.Monitor, OutlookRpcSelfTestMonitor, OutlookRpcDeepTestMonitor & RpsDeepTestPSProxyMonitor.

"Check state of server component" for ForwardSyncDaemon & ProvisioningRps.

"Check report of health set" for MailboxTransport, RPS & Outlook.Protocol. 

Any idea where to start troubleshooting?

As requested a previous thread where this issue originated, here is the result of the installed features:

Display Name                                            Name                       Install State
------------                                            ----                       -------------
[X] Application Server                                  Application-Server             Installed
    [X] .NET Framework 4.5                              AS-NET-Framework               Installed
    [X] Windows Process Activation Service Support      AS-WAS-Support                 Installed
        [X] HTTP Activation                             AS-HTTP-Activation             Installed
[X] File and Storage Services                           FileAndStorage-Services        Installed
    [X] File and iSCSI Services                         File-Services                  Installed
        [X] File Server                                 FS-FileServer                  Installed
    [X] Storage Services                                Storage-Services               Installed
[X] Web Server (IIS)                                    Web-Server                     Installed
    [X] Web Server                                      Web-WebServer                  Installed
        [X] Common HTTP Features                        Web-Common-Http                Installed
            [X] Default Document                        Web-Default-Doc                Installed
            [X] Directory Browsing                      Web-Dir-Browsing               Installed
            [X] HTTP Errors                             Web-Http-Errors                Installed
            [X] Static Content                          Web-Static-Content             Installed
            [X] HTTP Redirection                        Web-Http-Redirect              Installed
        [X] Health and Diagnostics                      Web-Health                     Installed
            [X] HTTP Logging                            Web-Http-Logging               Installed
            [X] Logging Tools                           Web-Log-Libraries              Installed
            [X] Request Monitor                         Web-Request-Monitor            Installed
            [X] Tracing                                 Web-Http-Tracing               Installed
        [X] Performance                                 Web-Performance                Installed
            [X] Static Content Compression              Web-Stat-Compression           Installed
            [X] Dynamic Content Compression             Web-Dyn-Compression            Installed
        [X] Security                                    Web-Security                   Installed
            [X] Request Filtering                       Web-Filtering                  Installed
            [X] Basic Authentication                    Web-Basic-Auth                 Installed
            [X] Client Certificate Mapping Authentic... Web-Client-Auth                Installed
            [X] Digest Authentication                   Web-Digest-Auth                Installed
            [X] Windows Authentication                  Web-Windows-Auth               Installed
        [X] Application Development                     Web-App-Dev                    Installed
            [X] .NET Extensibility 4.5                  Web-Net-Ext45                  Installed
            [X] ASP.NET 4.5                             Web-Asp-Net45                  Installed
            [X] ISAPI Extensions                        Web-ISAPI-Ext                  Installed
            [X] ISAPI Filters                           Web-ISAPI-Filter               Installed
    [X] Management Tools                                Web-Mgmt-Tools                 Installed
        [X] IIS Management Console                      Web-Mgmt-Console               Installed
        [X] IIS 6 Management Compatibility              Web-Mgmt-Compat                Installed
            [X] IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility            Web-Metabase                   Installed
            [X] IIS 6 Management Console                Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console          Installed
            [X] IIS 6 WMI Compatibility                 Web-WMI                        Installed
        [X] Management Service                          Web-Mgmt-Service               Installed
[X] .NET Framework 3.5 Features                         NET-Framework-Features         Installed
    [X] .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)  NET-Framework-Core             Installed
[X] .NET Framework 4.5 Features                         NET-Framework-45-Fea...        Installed
    [X] .NET Framework 4.5                              NET-Framework-45-Core          Installed
    [X] ASP.NET 4.5                                     NET-Framework-45-ASPNET        Installed
    [X] WCF Services                                    NET-WCF-Services45             Installed
        [X] HTTP Activation                             NET-WCF-HTTP-Activat...        Installed
        [X] Message Queuing (MSMQ) Activation           NET-WCF-MSMQ-Activat...        Installed
        [X] Named Pipe Activation                       NET-WCF-Pipe-Activat...        Installed
        [X] TCP Activation                              NET-WCF-TCP-Activati...        Installed
        [X] TCP Port Sharing                            NET-WCF-TCP-PortShar...        Installed
[X] Ink and Handwriting Services                        InkAndHandwritingSer...        Installed
[X] Media Foundation                                    Server-Media-Foundation        Installed
[X] Message Queuing                                     MSMQ                           Installed
    [X] Message Queuing Services                        MSMQ-Services                  Installed
        [X] Message Queuing Server                      MSMQ-Server                    Installed
[X] Remote Differential Compression                     RDC                            Installed
[X] Remote Server Administration Tools                  RSAT                           Installed
    [X] Feature Administration Tools                    RSAT-Feature-Tools             Installed
        [X] Failover Clustering Tools                   RSAT-Clustering                Installed
            [X] Failover Cluster Management Tools       RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt           Installed
            [X] Failover Cluster Module for Windows ... RSAT-Clustering-Powe...        Installed
            [X] Failover Cluster Command Interface      RSAT-Clustering-CmdI...        Installed
    [X] Role Administration Tools                       RSAT-Role-Tools                Installed
        [X] AD DS and AD LDS Tools                      RSAT-AD-Tools                  Installed
            [X] Active Directory module for Windows ... RSAT-AD-PowerShell             Installed
            [X] AD DS Tools                             RSAT-ADDS                      Installed
                [X] Active Directory Administrative ... RSAT-AD-AdminCenter            Installed
                [X] AD DS Snap-Ins and Command-Line ... RSAT-ADDS-Tools                Installed
[X] RPC over HTTP Proxy                                 RPC-over-HTTP-Proxy            Installed
[X] SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support                   FS-SMB1                        Installed
[X] User Interfaces and Infrastructure                  User-Interfaces-Infra          Installed
    [X] Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructure   Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra          Installed
    [X] Desktop Experience                              Desktop-Experience             Installed
    [X] Server Graphical Shell                          Server-Gui-Shell               Installed
[X] Windows Identity Foundation 3.5                     Windows-Identity-Fou...        Installed
[X] Windows PowerShell                                  PowerShellRoot                 Installed
    [X] Windows PowerShell 4.0                          PowerShell                     Installed
    [X] Windows PowerShell 2.0 Engine                   PowerShell-V2                  Installed
    [X] Windows PowerShell ISE                          PowerShell-ISE                 Installed
[X] Windows Process Activation Service                  WAS                            Installed
    [X] Process Model                                   WAS-Process-Model              Installed
    [X] Configuration APIs                              WAS-Config-APIs                Installed
[X] WoW64 Support                                       WoW64-Support                  Installed

As far as I can tell, all prerequisites are correctly installed.

I have noticed that since installing CU7 that the health manager service is terminating fairly regularly on our mailbox servers. It does not seem to do this on the CAS servers. So we will just see event 7031 in the event logs with the usual helpful message

I've setup a ediscovery search and found 56 items. I'm trying to export to pst, but a popup that says "Application download did not succeed." When I open details I give me this for the error message:

I have a single domain environment I am running windows server 2008 R2 domain controller and exchange server 2010. I have been ask to add a second domain to the exchange server to use for receiving and sending email. now my question is will it be wise to create a second domain in my forest before adding it into exchange server or should I just add the second domain to the exchange server? If I add to the exchange server the second domain, will I be able to chose which domain to assign to any mailboxes I create?

thank you.

After installing Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 I'm getting 6003 error in the event log:

MSExchangeHMHost: Exchange failed to create the log directory D:\MonitoringDiagnosticLogs\MSExchangeHMHost ...

I can't believe it but see for yourself: this "D:\..." path is HARDCODED to "\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.ActiveMonitoring.Local.Components.dll"  !!!

How could it be and how to deal with this error!?

Alexey Kuznetsov,
Relief Software
More than 80 free add-ins for Outlook

Hi,

we have an exchange 2013 multi tenant system running.

some customers asks now for impersonation rights assigned to a user for PBX systems to query the contacts folders.

is it possible to assign impersonationrights to a user, but this user should only allowed to query a set of users with the impersonation rights?

So, a user in Company1 should only query Company1 Users...

I have a vendor who wants to connect to our Exchange 2013 setup using IMAP4. I have set the IMAP services on the CAS and mailbox servers to automatic and started them. However, if I test IMAP connection it fails telling me "Log onto incoming mail server (IMAP): General authentication failed. None of the authentication methods supported by your IMAP server (if any) are supported on this computer."

I am testing this from a Windows 7 machine using Outlook 2010, the test account has IMAP connection enabled. What have I missed?

Hi,

I have system that has just completed a public folder migration from SBS 2008 to Exchange 2013. The migration was a success and everything works and is accessible. Users are reporting bad slowness while using these folders now its been moved, slower than the previous system.

A run-down of the system/things I have thought of:

The folders are accessed from a 2008 R2 RDS server running Outlook 2013. 

The entire public folder store is approx 350GB in size.

Exchange and RDS servers are virtual machines with more than enough resources and not under load at any point.

The servers VHD's and exchange data are stored on a single P2000 SAS SAN directly connected to hosts. (raid 10)

There is no Anti virus on the servers to possibly hinder this.

Accessing normal exchange mail works at a good speed. (mail store approx 200GB)

All windows updates for exchange/server/office have been installed.

Dos anyone have any suggestions to improve the performance here?

Thanks Robbie

Hello everyone,

I want to install Edge transport server for my Exchange servers,

Could you tell me if Edge transport server 2013 works with Exchange 2010?

Hi Guys,

I have a quick question i am planning to upgrade my infra from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 and i have come across a small question, my infra looks likes below

3 Exchange server (CAS+ HT + MBX roles) Exchange 2010
1 Exchange server MBX role For journlaing Exchange 2010
1 CAS for internet owa access Exchange 2010

Now i will be  installing exchange 2013 CAS on 2 box and MBX on 3 box 

will decomm the 3 exchange box which has (CAS+ HT + MBX roles) and 1 CAS which we use for owa access.

will keep the Journaling server as it is will not be decomming it as of now.

My question is is will i be able to connect to the journaling mailbox's which are hosted on exchange 2010 journaling server without actually having any 2010 cas server, will exchange 2013 cas directly help me to connect to the journal mailbox or would i need to add CAS role on Exchange 2010 journaling server and enable outlook anywhere configure the directories with the url's to make it working.

Please suggest on the same.

BR/Deepak

I get this at boot and when restarting the Microsoft Exchange Diagnostics service ever since I updated to CU7.  Anyone know anything about this?

Log Name:      Application
Source:        MSExchangeDiagnostics
Date:          12/19/2014 12:30:09 PM
Event ID:      1039
Task Category: General
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Server.contoso.com
Description:
Failed to detect the bitlocker state for EDS log drive 'C:\'.
Exception
System.Management.ManagementException: Invalid namespace
   at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode)
   at System.Management.ManagementScope.InitializeGuts(Object o)
   at System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize()
   at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Initialize()
   at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Get()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.Service.DiagnosticsService.DriveLocked(String diagnosticsRootDrive)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="MSExchangeDiagnostics" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49156">1039</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>1</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-12-19T19:30:09.000000000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>68590</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>server.contoso.com</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>C:\</Data>
    <Data>
Exception
System.Management.ManagementException: Invalid namespace
   at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode)
   at System.Management.ManagementScope.InitializeGuts(Object o)
   at System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize()
   at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Initialize()
   at System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Get()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.Service.DiagnosticsService.DriveLocked(String diagnosticsRootDrive)</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

How do we add current Active Directory groups to the Exchange 2013 for emailing groups?

Thanks

When setting up a DDG, I set it to use a specific OU where we put our external users. At first I used the send to all, effectively no filter command. I did specify limited senders, myself being one of them. I did not add any emails/users to the reject list.

When I send to the group, the email appears by all accounts to send from my end. I never receive any type of error. I've also checked the mail tracking tool and it shows the message being delivered to the distribution group successfully. However, none of the individuals in the group actually receive the message.  The first DDG (the one that matters) has over 2500 users. I've checked mailflow and I set the limit to 5000 so I don't think that is the issue. 

I then created another dummy OU, added external users utilizing my various external emails for testing, (5 total). Utilizing settings as mentioned above, still could not send with all the same indications or lack there of. 

Any ideas? 

Hi, i created a new database in our existing exchange server 2013 sp1 and i was trying to move my mailbox to the newly created one using the EAC. But the mailbox is not getting moved and i am not receiving any errors. Is there anything else i need to do after creating the database.

Please advise.

Hello everyone,

I have been spending a lot of time searching and testing how to delete all items older than 6 months in a user mailbox, but this rule it cannot be applied just one personal folder named "personal". I have been reading about retention policy and retention policy tags, but I can't figure out how to use that to keep all items older than 6 month in personal folder.

could anyone tell me if I am right with retention policy or it's better other way?

thank you in advice

We have just set up a partnership with a vendor, this vendor sends emails to users within our environment to advise when accounts are created/modified etc. The emails have the logo of my company embedded in them.

When we receive these emails the image takes 17 to 30 seconds to download, if sent to external addresses the image loads instantly. This has been tested using the same browser and mail client for both email accounts, external account is instant, internal account is slow.

How can I speed this up for my users?

Hi,

I would like to monitor all MAPI Properties that are sent from an Outlook client during the sending process of an EMail.

Is there a way to configure Exchange's logging to meet such a requirement?

Thanks for your help

Tobias

hello,

can anyone help me out with gathering the following SMTP host logs to see:

How many users are authenticating.

How many emails with distinct titles

Can this be done in powershell or do i need to be looking somewhere else.

This is for O365

Aditya Mediratta

Hi,

I am trying to resolve secondary SMTP address to user's name by performing look-up pressing CTRl+K in OL but it does not resolves to user's name however that is not the case with default replying email SMTP (primary) as primary SMTP resolves to name with no effort . Please suggest ?

Aditya Mediratta