Content Index State: Failed and Suspended Exchange Server 2013

On my passive Server "Content Index State" mailbox database is still Failed and Suspended for almost a week.
Actions Taken to Resolve the Issue:
- Update-mailboxdatabasecopy
-Delete the exisiting folder of database on passive server and run database copy on EAC
Still got FAILED AND SUSPENDED content index state.
Need some advice guys..
Thanks!

Hi,
Please check the following article and see if it can resolve your problem.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2807668
Please check the active database, make sure the content index is healthy. If possible, please rebuild content index of active database. And then reseed passive database copy to check result.
Best regards,
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

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Content index state: Failed

Hi.
I have been restoring the entire Windows after a bigger problem in the past. However, there were data for Exchange server at a completely different disk which was not affected.
But now I can not load up OWA and when you look in the ECP so says the following under databases "Content index state: Failed"
I have tried to repair it but without any success.
The operation couldn't be performed because object '0747478411\MAIL-SERVER01' couldn't be found on 'server'.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy], ManagementObjectNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DD4CF704,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.UpdateDatabaseCopy
+ PSComputerName : mail-server01
Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy "0747478411\MAIL-SERVER01" -CatalogOnly
All i have in owa now is
something went wrong
Sorry, we can't get that information right now. Please try again later. If the problem continues, contact your helpdesk.

Hi Jesper,
Thank you for your question.
By my understanding, we should not simply recover window system, we should performance a disaster recover for Exchange by the following link:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876880(v=exchg.150).aspx
If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know.
Best Regard,
Jim
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Exchange 2013: Content Index State Failed

I am running two, two node DAG's with Exchange 2013.
One DAG pair is running 5 databases with Server 2012 Standard and the second DAG pair is running Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard with a single shared database.
No matter what I try, ALL 6 databases show "ContentIndexState: Failed" with "ContentIndexErrorMessage: An internal error occurred for the database or its index.".
I have tried rebuilding the indexes manually, automatically and manually copying the database files between servers. I also receive errors when trying to failover the databases because the content index state is failed.
In my test environment I have a very similar setup working fine with no issues.
Please let me know what I can try to get this resolved.
The error I receive when running the following set of commands is:
suspend-MailboxDatabaseCopy dag2db1\mbox1
update-MailboxDatabaseCopy dag2db1\mbox1 -deleteexistingfiles
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>update-mailboxdatabasecopy dag2db1\mbox1 -deleteexistingfiles
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Updating database copy DAG2DB1\MBOX1 on server MBOX1
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [?] Help (default is "Y"): a
WARNING: Seeding of content index catalog for database 'DAG2DB1' failed. Please verify that the Microsoft Search (Exchange) and the Host Controller service for Exchange services are running and try the operation again. Error: Therevwas no endpoint listening
at net.tcp://localhost:17063/Management/SeedingAgent-0A2745DF-4522-42AB-9115-5DDE9EDEF1C612/Single that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details..
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>

Hi Folks,
Here we go;
"On
August 14th, we announced the removal of the
MS13-061 Security Update for Exchange Server 2013 due to an issue where the patch changed settings for the search infrastructure, placing the content index for all databases into a failed state. As of today, we have released updated security updates
for both Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 and Exchange 2013 RTM CU2."
Details below;
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/27/now-available-updated-release-of-ms13-061-security-update-for-exchange-server-2013.aspx
Yavuz Eren Demir
After installing this patch (Exchange2013-KB2874216-v2-x64-en.msp) seeding of the databases was impossible.
Error:
warning
Seeding of content index catalog for database 'Database02' failed. Please verify that the Microsoft Search (Exchange) and
the Host Controller service for Exchange services are running and try the operation again. Error: Could not connect to net.tcp://localhost:3863/Management/SeedingAgent-F293698C-B2D0-40CA-A2C3-FB37982E708712/Single. The connection attempt lasted for a time
span of 00:00:02.0592000. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:3863. .
Looking at the two services mentioned in this warning I've noticed the Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller (HostControllerService)
was disabled
After Changing it to Automatic and enabling it, the problem was salved

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I noticed that everyone is saying just to run the catalog only command on any database that gets
Contnt index state failed after a restart. but what if you are faililng over 30database and 20 of them get corrupted? run this commadn 1 by 1? really?

Thanks
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Content Index State Failed - Exchange 2010 2 Node Dag

Hello,
Last night I needed to restart one of my Exchange 2010 DAG nodes. I moved all Active Database copies of this node to the other node in the DAG. I then restarted the node with no Active Database copies. When the server came back up I moved
the Active Database copies back onto the node that they were initially on. The node that I restarted now shows the ContentIndexState of all Databases as "Failed". Test-replicationhealth gives the following results:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server S01
Name                                          Status
CopyQueue ReplayQueue LastInspectedLogTime   ContentIndex
Length    Length                             State
DB01-MS01 (A-B)\S01                     Mounted         0         0
Failed
DB02-MS01 (C-D)\S01                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 9:57:40 AM           Failed
DB03-MS01 (E-G)\S01                     Healthy         0         1
1/26/2011 10:02:38 AM         Failed
DB04-MS01 (H-J)\S01                     Mounted         0         0
Failed
DB06-MS01 (M-N)\S01                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:02:25 AM         Failed
DB07-MS01 (0-P)\S01                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 9:57:17 AM            Failed
DB08-MS01 (Q-R)\S01                     Mounted         0         0
Failed
DB09-MS01 (S-T)\S01                     Mounted         0         0
Failed
DB05-MS01 (K-L)\S01                     Mounted         0         0
Failed
DB10-MS01 (U-V)\S01                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:01:59 AM          Failed
DB11-MS01 (W-Z)\S01                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 9:57:50 AM           Failed
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server S02
Name                                          Status
CopyQueue ReplayQueue LastInspectedLogTime   ContentIndex
Length    Length                             State
DB01-MS01 (A-B)\S02                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:00:36 AM Healthy
DB02-MS01 (C-D)\S02                     Mounted         0         0
Healthy
DB03-MS01 (E-G)\S02                     Mounted         0         0
Healthy
DB04-MS01 (H-J)\S02                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:02:29 AM Healthy
DB06-MS01 (M-N)\S02                     Mounted         0         0
Healthy
DB07-MS01 (0-P)\S02                     Mounted         0         0
Healthy
DB08-MS01 (Q-R)\S02                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:02:32 AM Healthy
DB10-MS01 (U-V)\S02                     Mounted         0         0
Healthy
DB11-MS01 (W-Z)\S02                     Mounted         0         0
Healthy
DB05-MS01 (K-L)\S02                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:02:21 AM Healthy
DB09-MS01 (S-T)\S02                     Healthy         0         0
1/26/2011 10:01:33 AM Healthy
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>test-replicationhealth
Server          Check                      Result     Error
S01          ClusterService             Passed
S01          ReplayService              Passed
S01          ActiveManager             Passed
S01          TasksRpcListener         Passed
S01          TcpListener                  Passed
S01          DagMembersUp           Passed
S01          ClusterNetwork            Passed
S01          QuorumGroup               Passed
S01          FileShareQuorum            Passed
S01          DBCopySuspended            Passed
S01          DBCopyFailed               Passed
S01          DBInitializing             Passed
S01          DBDisconnected             Passed
S01          DBLogCopyKeepingUp         Passed
S01          DBLogReplayKeepingUp       Passed
I appreciate any help. Thank you.
R

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus
Name                                          Status
CopyQueue ReplayQueue LastInspectedLogTime   ContentIndex
Length    Length                             State
DB01-MS01 (A-B)\01                                 Mounted
0         0                                  Healthy
DB02-MS01 (C-D)\S01                               Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:05:45 AM Healthy
DB03-MS01 (E-G)\S01                               Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
DB04-MS01 (H-J)\S01                                Healthy
0         0           1/28/2011 11:07:50 AM Healthy
DB06-MS01 (M-N)\S01                               Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:02:12 AM Healthy
DB07-MS01 (0-P)\S01                                Mounted
0         0                                  Healthy
DB08-MS01 (Q-R)\S01                               Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:09:08 AM Healthy
DB09-MS01 (S-T)\S01                                Mounted
0         0                                  Healthy
DB05-MS01 (K-L)\S01                                Mounted
0         0                                  Healthy
DB10-MS01 (U-V)\S01                               Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:02:53 AM Healthy
DB11-MS01 (W-Z)\S01                              Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus
Name                                          Status
CopyQueue ReplayQueue LastInspectedLogTime   ContentIndex
Length    Length                             State
DB01-MS01 (A-B)\S02                              Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:08:27 AM Healthy
DB02-MS01 (C-D)\S02                    Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
DB03-MS01 (E-G)\S02                              Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:10:36 AM Healthy
DB04-MS01 (H-J)\S02                               Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
DB06-MS01 (M-N)\S02                              Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
DB07-MS01 (0-P)\S02                              Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 10:58:23 AM Healthy
DB08-MS01 (Q-R)\S02                              Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
DB10-MS01 (U-V)\S02                               Mounted         0
0                                  Healthy
DB11-MS01 (W-Z)\S02                              Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:09:45 AM Healthy
DB05-MS01 (K-L)\S02                               Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:09:42 AM Healthy
DB09-MS01 (S-T)\S02                              Healthy         0
0           1/28/2011 11:08:34 AM Healthy

WebEx meeting server and MS Exchange server 2013

Greetings,
The WebEx meeting server vr. 2.5 can't send email invitations to anybody outside the domain. However, domain users can receive WebEX meeting invitation in Outlook by email. receive and send connectors are already created and configured and domain users can send and receives email from outside domain by Outlook. Would you please advise about any further configuration required in either WebEx server or MS Exchange.
Could you please send the configuration steps in both sides to integrate WebEx Meeting server with MS Exchange 2013.
Currently, I use the default receive connectors with enabling anonymous users for both hub and frontend transport. Also, I have created SMTP send connectors for outgoing emails.
The WMS is able to send emails inside the domain but not to outside!

Could you please send the configuration steps in both sides to integrate WebEx Meeting server with MS Exchange 2013.
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Exchange Server 2013 Content Index is in "Unknown" state.

Hi Experts,
We have two Exchange Server 2013 CU3 installed in our customer premises 6 months back on top of Windows Server 2012 OS.
From last week, we are getting the content index status as "Unknown" while checking the "Get-Mailboxdatabasecopystatus".
We have tried to reseed the database by using "update-mailboxdatabasecopy -identity <db> -deleteexistingfiles then we came to know the server is not responding on port 3863.
Attached image is for your reference.
Need support from experts to resolve at the earliest.
Regards,
Santhosh
Santhosh Sivaraman MCITP: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 | MCSE/MCSA

Hi,
I had the same issue and was able to solved by recreate the search index component on the mailbox servers
Recreate the Search Foundation from scratch
Stop and disable the search services and rename the Data Folder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\HostController\Data"
Open power shell and navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\Installer
Run the command : .\installconfig.ps1 -action I -dataFolder "c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\HostController\Data"
Output should be like
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\Installer>.\installconfig.ps1 -action I -dataFolder "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\Search\Ceres\HostController\Data"
Configuring Search Foundation for Exchange....
Successfully configured Search Foundation for Exchange
Rename the Index files for the database that are active on the node .
Start the Search Services
Removed a configuration entry that refers to the ContentSubmitters group. This entry is present in four XML files. Each file is called WcfConfigurator.
you can find each file in the following folder:
%ExchangeInstallPath%\Bin\Search\Ceres\HostController\Data\Nodes\Fsis\NODENAME\Configuration\Local
Here, “%ExchangeInstallPath%” is the Exchange installation root path, and the placeholder NODENAME represents one of the following names. (There is one name for each of the four files that are to be edited.)
AdminNode1
ContentEngineNode1
IndexNode1
InteractionEngineNode1
These are text files. You can use Notepad or any other convenient plain text editor to change them. Make sure that you make only the change that is described here.
Each file contains at most one line that contains the following: <AuthorizedRole>ContentSubmitters</AuthorizedRole>
Remove this line, and then save the file. Repeat this operation for each of the four files, and then restart the Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller service.
Found the Index files in Crawling state as expected instead of Unknown.
Once all the Active copies are healthy and still the copies in failed and suspended state, then you can reseed the catalog files only using the below command
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Good Luck..
Regards,
Ayman Saleh

Exchange Server 2013: no send/receive after failed CU1- CU2 and machine restore

Hi!
For several reasons, I decided to fully restore my Exchange Server 2013 machine today.
The machine is virtualized on Hyper-V.
I rebooted the server and recovered from backup and Exchange seems to be working fine. However, I cannot receive or send mail. If I try to send a message it goes to the "drafts" folder. OWA and EMC is working. I can not send mail between interna mailboxes
either. Outlook says disconnected.
When running the Exhchange Connectivity Analyzer, I get the following:
- Receive: Connection was successful but no banner was received.
- Send: Successfull. However when trying to send mail to external mailbox it does not reach that mailbox.
Mailflow was working perfectly at the time of the backup.
Help is much appreciated!
UPDATE 1: When telnet on local server i get SMTP banner. But not on other computers in same subnet.

OK. After fiddeling around in ADSIedit and trying to rebuild my Exchange environment I ended ut breaking it completely.
I then restored both my DC (Exchange schema CU2) and my EX (Exchange schema CU1). Scema Versions where the inconsistent as stated.
Then I uninstalled the KB2874216 successfully. After that i tried to Upgrade Exchange to CU2. The Upgrade failed at Mailbox Role: Mailbox Service With error Message:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          if (($RoleIsDatacenter -ne $true) -and ($RoleIsDatacenterDedicated -ne $true))
            if (test-ExchangeServersWriteAccess -DomainController $RoleDomainController -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
              $sysMbx = $null;
              $name = "SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}";
              $dispname = "Microsoft Exchange";
              $mbxs = @( get-mailbox -arbitration -Filter {name -eq $name} -IgnoreDefaultScope -resultSize 1 );
              if ( $mbxs.length -eq 0)
                $dbs = @(get-MailboxDatabase -Server:$RoleFqdnOrName -DomainController $RoleDomainController);
                if ($dbs.Length -ne 0)
                  $arbUsers = @(get-user -Filter {name -eq $name} -IgnoreDefaultScope -ResultSize 1);
                  if ($arbUsers.Length -ne 0)
                    $sysMbx = enable-mailbox -Arbitration -identity $arbUsers[0] -DisplayName $dispname -database $dbs[0].Identity;
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                if ($mbxs[0].DisplayName -ne $dispname )
                   set-mailbox -Arbitration -identity $mbxs[0] -DisplayName $dispname -Force;
                $sysMbx = $mbxs[0];
              # Set the Organization Capabilities needed for this mailbox
              if ($sysMbx -ne $null)
                  Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Setting mailbox properties.");
                  set-mailbox -Arbitration -identity $sysMbx -UMDataStorage:$true -Force;
                  # No RetentionPolicy assigned to E-Discovery arbitration mailbox currently, we need to set it here.
                  # This can be remove after BUG(O15#2555914) is fixed.
                  if ($sysMbx.RetentionPolicy -eq $null )
                     $arbitrationRetentionPolicy = @(Get-RetentionPolicy -DomainController $RoleDomainController | where {$_.Name -eq 'ArbitrationMailbox'});
                     set-mailbox -Arbitration -identity $sysMbx -RetentionPolicy $arbitrationRetentionPolicy[0].Identity -Force;
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                Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Cannot find E-discovery arbitration mailbox with name=$name.");
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              write-exchangesetuplog -info "Skipping creating Discovery Arbitration Mailbox because of insufficient permission."
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Seems the problem was corrupted arbitrary system mailboxes from previous Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration.
The solution for me was to restore the corrupted arbitrary mailboxes using this
LINK. It is for 2010 but Works on 2013.
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Content Index State Crawling

We have an Exchange database that seems to always have a Content Index State that is crawling. Some end users have complained about slow searches and indexing issues (which is expected). We have
stopped the search services and renamed the catalog directory in an effort to rebuild the search catalog, but it just goes right back to crawling. The database is only about 300GB, so I don't think size is an issue.
Could it be there is some corruption on the database that is causing issues with the index catalog. We have removed the database from the DAG and tried it as a stand alone database, with the same
results.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

did you find anything in the event viewer (app/Sys logs).
You may consider restarting Search Indexer service and then check if that gets healthy or not.
If it still doesn't say healthy then you might have to consider Resetting Search Index for problematic Database or all database if all if it is a problem with all databases.
Refer to the link below to get info about how to reset Search index for a database.
Exchange
2010 Database copy on server has content index catalog files in the following state: Failed
Establishing Exchange Content Index
Rebuild Baselines – Part 1
How To Troubleshoot Issues With Exchange 2010 Search
Reply back with the outcome!
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I have a mailbox database with two copies in a database availability group, the active copy is healthy and its content index state reports healthy as well, the passive copy is healthy but its content index state reports FailedAndSuspended.
I tried the: Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy <DBName>\<ServerName> -CatalogOnly more than one time, it completes (says 100KB written) but the state never changes.
I even tried to manually stop the service>delete CI>start the service, the CI folder was recreated (about 1 GB) but still the state is still FailedAndSuspended.
Please Help!

I found the following warning in the event log,
Event ID: 1009
The indexing of mailbox database Main-EX02-DB1 encountered an unexpected exception. Error details: Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Core.Abstraction.OperationFailedException: The component operation has failed. ---> Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Core.Abstraction.CatalogReseedException:
The component operation has failed.
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Engine.SearchFeedingController.DetermineFeederStateAndStartFeeders()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Engine.SearchFeedingController.InternalExecutionStart()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Core.Common.Executable.InternalExecutionStart(Object state)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Core.Common.Executable.EndExecute(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Engine.SearchRootController.ExecuteComplete(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
I checked online, and found one website talking about the "ContentSubmitters" group, which I created in the Exchange Security Groups OU without any members but with stated permissions:
https://abdullrhmanfarram.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/event-id-1009-content-index-status-of-the-mailbox-databases-failed/

Exchange Server 2013 on Srvr2012r2 fails on preinstall

During the preinstall of the Exchange server 2013 on virtual Server 2012r2 the installation fails at the second step of the preinstall. I tried the wizard and it also fails station the user does not have the correct rights.
This was probably caused by myself. When I first installed the Exchange I did not install the client and mailbox items. When I found out this was an error I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall.
Bonnie Whalon

hi Bwhalon.. your both the commands are incorrect..
1. it misses a parameter required somwhere
2. the role service which you have asked to install is incorrect..may be mistyped
ok now you can use below two way ...
1. Command...
Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45,
Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service,
Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation
take from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx
after this you can start the install
2. Graphical install : check below links .. this is step by step procedure
http://www.techieshelp.com/exchange-2013-step-by-step-configuration/
Let me know if this helps...
MARK AS USEFUL/ANSWER IF IT DID
Thanks
Happiness Always
Jatin

Exchange Server 2013: Installation fails

Migrating SBS 2008 to Windows Server 2012 R2 (no virtualization) and Exchange Server 2013 SP1
(1) ADprep on SBS 2008 went fine
(2) Installed necessary feature for Exchange (website “Part 1: Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration”)
A) the first time I installed Exchange 2013, the setup succeeded, however there were several ecp/WinRM errors.
B) restored Windows Server 2012 R2 to the state (2). Removed from AD (ADSI Edit)
… CN=Services; CN=Exchange; CN=First Organization; CN=Exchange Administrator Group; CN=Servers
delete new Win 2012 server
Run Exchange setup again:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
if ($RoleStartTransportService)
start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeTransport -MaxWaitTimeForRunningState 0:0:40
" was run: "Service 'MSExchangeTransport' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.".
Checked:
- IPv6 is enabled, but was setup correctly after installing ADDS role)
- Administrators (Group) is a member of the Exch. Trusted Subsystem
Probably there is an AD problem, after the restoration (B) (bare metal) of the Win 2012 server.
Please help!
Fulco

Hi
the error states that the MSExchangeTransport service failed to start. Can you manually try starting the service and then run the setup again?
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Exchange Server 2013 SP1 Standard: Installation failing can't progress

I'm trying to install Exchange Server 2013 and I keep getting this error and I am unable to progress, I can't find any support on the issue and frankly I don't want to/can't afford to spend $500 to ask Microsoft for technical support (what kind of racket
do they think they're running?).
The error message:
Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory -Role Mailbox -DomainController $RoleDomainController;
" was run: "The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it.".
Yet, I see no PushNotifications virtual directory or anything remotely related to that on IIS or in the inetpub folders and files. If I try to resume the set-up after this error I get:
Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory -Role Mailbox -DomainController $RoleDomainController;
" was run: "The AD configuration for virtual directory 'PushNotifications' already exists in 'CN=PushNotifications (Exchange Back End),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=SVR02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=OFFICE,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=OFFICE,DC=local', please remove this AD configuration manually.
Parameter name: VirtualDirectoryName".
And I have to remove this config using ADSI Edit, which just returns me to the first error.

1. Prodution
2. Just 1 DC for 1 site.
3. Setup.EXE
4. Matches SP1 version numbers
5. That's just what was made available to me via MSPP, the installer doesn't see any updates?
6. Here is the log files:
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0940] [1] Setup failed previously while performing the action Install. Looking for the failed task with ID ClientAccessComponent___75f8c93d15314369983d33ec0742e189.
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0941] [1] 131 tasks were found to run.
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0941] [1] Processing component 'Client Access Configuration' (Configuring Mailbox role: Client Access service.).
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0941] [1] Executing:
New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory -Role Mailbox -DomainController $RoleDomainController;
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0955] [2] Active Directory session settings for 'New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory' are: View Entire Forest: 'True', Configuration Domain Controller: 'SVR01.OFFICE.local', Preferred Global Catalog: 'SVR01.OFFICE.local', Preferred Domain Controllers: '{ SVR01.OFFICE.local }'
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0956] [2] User specified parameters: -Role:'Mailbox' -DomainController:'SVR01.OFFICE.local'
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0956] [2] Beginning processing New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory
[03/23/2015 22:06:52.0999] [2] Searching objects "SVR02.OFFICE.local" of type "Server" under the root "$null".
[03/23/2015 22:06:53.0066] [2] Previous operation run on domain controller 'SVR01.OFFICE.local'.
[03/23/2015 22:06:53.0068] [2] Processing object "SVR02\PushNotifications".
[03/23/2015 22:06:56.0763] [2] The properties changed on the object '' (CN=PushNotifications (Exchange Back End),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=SVR02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=OFFICE,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=OFFICE,DC=local) are: "{ MetabasePath[msExchMetabasePath]='IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications', AuthenticationMethodFlags[msExchInternalAuthenticationMethods]='Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated', AuthenticationMethodFlags[msExchExternalAuthenticationMethods]='Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated', Id[distinguishedName]='SVR02\PushNotifications (Exchange Back End)', InternalAuthenticationMethods[msExchInternalAuthenticationMethods]={ 'Ntlm', 'WindowsIntegrated' }, ExternalAuthenticationMethods[msExchExternalAuthenticationMethods]={ 'Ntlm', 'WindowsIntegrated' }, OrganizationId[msExchOURoot, msExchCU]='' }".
[03/23/2015 22:06:56.0764] [2] Saving object "SVR02\PushNotifications (Exchange Back End)" of type "ADPushNotificationsVirtualDirectory" and state "New".
[03/23/2015 22:06:57.0073] [2] Previous operation run on domain controller 'SVR01.OFFICE.local'.
[03/23/2015 22:06:57.0587] [2] [ERROR] The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it.
[03/23/2015 22:06:57.0591] [2] [ERROR] Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
Line number: 630
Error: Can not log on locally to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\PushNotifications as user OFFICE\Administrator with virtual directory password
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0378] [2] [ERROR] The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it.
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0378] [2] [ERROR] Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
Line number: 630
Error: Can not log on locally to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\PushNotifications as user OFFICE\Administrator with virtual directory password
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0386] [2] Ending processing New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0388] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0388] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it.
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0389] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: System.InvalidOperationException: The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
Line number: 630
Error: Can not log on locally to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\PushNotifications as user OFFICE\Administrator with virtual directory password
at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Interop.IAppHostAdminManager.GetAdminSection(String bstrSectionName, String bstrPath)
at Microsoft.Web.Administration.Configuration.GetSectionInternal(ConfigurationSection section, String sectionPath, String locationPath)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.ExchangeServiceVDirHelper.SetAuthModule(Boolean EnableModule, Boolean isChildVDirApplication, String moduleName, String moduleType, ExchangeVirtualDirectory advdir)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.ExchangeServiceVDirHelper.SetLiveIdBasicAuthModule(Boolean EnableModule, Boolean isChildVDirApplication, ADExchangeServiceVirtualDirectory advdir)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.NewExchangeServiceVirtualDirectory`1.InternalProcessComplete()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.NewPushNotificationsVirtualDirectory.InternalProcessComplete()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.NewExchangeVirtualDirectory`1.InternalProcessRecord()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target, Boolean reThrow, String helpUrl)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.NewExchangeVirtualDirectory`1.InternalProcessRecord()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord()
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0389] [1] [ERROR] The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
New-PushNotificationsVirtualDirectory -Role Mailbox -DomainController $RoleDomainController;
" was run: "The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it.".
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0389] [1] [ERROR] The Active Directory object for virtual directory 'IIS://SVR02.OFFICE.local/W3SVC/24/ROOT/PushNotifications' on 'SVR02' could not be created. This might be because the object already exists in Active Directory. Remove the object from Active Directory, then re-create it.
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0389] [1] [ERROR] Filename: \\?\C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
Line number: 630
Error: Can not log on locally to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\PushNotifications as user OFFICE\Administrator with virtual directory password
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0390] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=ClientAccessComponent___75f8c93d15314369983d33ec0742e189 Component=EXCHANGE14:\Current\Release\Shared\Datacenter\Setup
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0390] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors.
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0390] [1] Finished executing component tasks.
[03/23/2015 22:06:58.0406] [1] Ending processing Install-ClientAccessRole
It says it can not log on with the supplied details, but the account is an Administrator account with full privileges so I can't see why this would be the case.

Is reseed required when in "failed and Suspended" status

We had a small hiccup in our SAN which we have resolved. The database copies went into a "Failed and suspended" state on one server. Can we just right click on them and say "resume?"
It seems all the documentation on MS web site talk about reseeding the database like it is the norm when the database copy is in "Failed and suspended" error occurs. Is that accurate or if you select "Resume" will it use the
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Hi,
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Here is an article for your reference.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351100(v=exchg.141).aspx
Best regards,
Belinda
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

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