Exchange 2010 Mailbox Role during setup...
All Have an extremely feisty Exchange deployment… seems like the Mailbox Role just does not want to install… one error to overcome after another. First had to overcome problems with a corrupted special services account (the “Federated41….” account). Then got the phantom “PowerShell virtual directory exists” issues to tune out. No have, what looks like, a problem writing to the domain controller… can’t understand why since ADPrep (many writes to domain controller) was fine, or perhaps simply looking at this all wrong? Must point out that this domain contained a previously failed 2010 installation that was manually removed… it appeared to be a clean manual remove... forgot which specific KB article we used to remove it though. The error from Setup is below and would greatly appreciate any insight on this. Thx. -James- ___________________________ Summary: 3 item(s). 1 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:02:50 Preparing Setup Completed Elapsed Time: 00:00:08 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 $dbs[0].Identity; } } } } else { write-exchangesetuplog -info "Skipping creating Discovery Search Mailbox because of insufficient permission." } } " was run: "Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. Property Name: Database". Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. Property Name: Database Click here for help... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.267.0&e=ms.exch.err.Ex88D115&l=0&cl=cp Error: The following error was generated when "$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: "Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. Property Name: Database". Database is mandatory on UserMailbox. Property Name: Database Click here for help... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.267.0&e=ms.exch.err.Ex88D115&l=0&cl=cp Elapsed Time: 00:02:42 Finalizing Setup Cancelled
May 10th, 2011 11:50pm

See similar threads: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/exchange2010/thread/3d184f00-6a80-4165-93f2-d45b48b875ad http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/10ad4a1e-3108-4016-85cc-8e679e2e8fc9Tim Harrington | MVP: Exchange | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010, MCITP: Lync 2010, MCITP: Server 2008, MCTS: OCS | Blog: http://HowDoUC.blogspot.com | Twitter: @twharrington
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May 11th, 2011 5:17am

Hi Stratos, Any updates? By the way, it is unsupported to remove Exchange 2010 manually. Frank Wang TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
May 11th, 2011 12:00pm

Hi Stratos, Any updates?Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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May 12th, 2011 11:12am

Was able to delete the DIscovery Mailbox and the setup proceded. Thx. -J-
May 13th, 2011 2:55am

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