2nd Exchange 2010 Server, Mailbox Role error
Hello, I'm currently in the process of setting up a 2nd Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2 to provide resilience for our mail server; I'm hitting an error that I can't seem to get passed to get exchange installed. The 2 servers we have are Cat and Dog, Cat has been in place for nearly a year now with CAS, Transport Hub and Mailbox’s all on the one box. Clearly this isn't ideal; if we lose Cat we lose all our Email functions. Dog is also going to have the same 3 roles on the box and we'll be using software NLB to provide a fail over if Cat fails. On Dog, the CAS and Hub Transport roles have installed fine, I’m having trouble getting the mailbox role to install correctly. I can’t understand why it’s failing as we have no issues with Cat. This is the following error I get from the Exchange installer:   Summary: 3 item(s). 1 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:11 Preparing Setup Completed Elapsed Time: 00:00:07 Mailbox Role Failed Error: The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();           if ($RoleIsDatacenter -ne $true)           {             if (test-ExchangeServersWriteAccess -DomainController $RoleDomainController -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)             {               # upgrade the discovery mailboxes to R5 version, this will fix the RecipientDisplayType property of the discovery mailbox which was wrong in R4.               get-mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails DiscoveryMailbox -DomainController $RoleDomainController | where {$_.IsValid -eq $false} | set-mailbox -DomainController $RoleDomainController               $name = [Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.EnableMailbox]::DiscoveryMailboxUniqueName;               $dispname = [Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.EnableMailbox]::DiscoveryMailboxDisplayName;               $mbxs = @( get-mailbox -Filter {name -eq $name} -IgnoreDefaultScope -resultSize 1 );               if ( $mbxs.length -eq 0)               {                 $dbs = @(get-MailboxDatabase -Server:$RoleFqdnOrName -DomainController $RoleDomainController);                 if($dbs.Length -ne 0)                 {                   $mbxUser = @(get-user -Filter {name -eq $name} -IgnoreDefaultScope -ResultSize 1);                   if ($mbxUser.Length -ne 0)                   {                     enable-mailbox -Discovery -identity $mbxUser[0] -DisplayName $dispname -database $dbs[0].Identity;                   }                 }               }             }             else             {               write-exchangesetuplog -info "Skipping creating Discovery Search Mailbox because of insufficient permission."             }            }         " was run: "The property value is invalid. The value can't contain leading or trailing whitespace. Property Name: DisplayName".   The property value is invalid. The value can't contain leading or trailing whitespace. Property Name: DisplayName Click here for help... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.285.0&e=ms.exch.err.Ex88D115&l=0&cl=cp   Elapsed Time: 00:00:03 Finalizing Setup Cancelled  From what I can gether, there’s 2 errors in there. The first one being the discovery mailboxes being the wrong version. How do I update them? The second being about whitespace somewhere in a display name. Can someone point me in the right direction? To start to understand what’s wrong and how I can go about fixing it? Any help is appreciated, Chris
October 4th, 2011 10:17am

Hi please try solution by Brian Day on this post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/10ad4a1e-3108-4016-85cc-8e679e2e8fc9Dhruv
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October 4th, 2011 1:51pm

Hello Chris, I have been seen these similar issues when installing the MBX role or moving mailbox to another servers. Please check the following article and see if it helps: http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/index.php/general-tips/the-property-value-is-invalid-the-value-cant-contain-leading-or-trailing-whitespace/ Simon Wu Exchange Forum Support Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com.
October 6th, 2011 2:37am

Hi Guys, Thanks for the help. after reading up on your suggestions, some google-fu and poking around our AD, I can across 4 strange looking accounts. DiscoverySearchMailbox FederatedEmail SystemMailbox{Hex code} SystemMailbox{Hex code} All 4 of these accounts had a trailing whitespace on their DisplayName AD property, I removed them all and reran the installation and all is up and running. Again, thanks for the help, much appreciated
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October 6th, 2011 5:15am

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