Hi and thanks for any assistance or pointers ahead of time

I am assisting a client with their "freshly" installed Exchange 2013. the Mailbox Transport Submission and Delivery services would not start. I checked that they had no service pack or Cumulative updates installed so started with SP1. the upgrade gets to Mailbox Role: Mailbox service 72% and fails with the below message. I think there was configuration done to the MSExchangeSubmissions.exe.config file I cannot figure out what it was and the upgrade will not continue. can anyone offer some advice?

********error******

Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server

    Restoring Services                                        COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Transport service                           COMPLETED
    Client Access role: Front End Transport service           COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Client Access service                       COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service                   COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Mailbox service                             FAILED
     The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          $file = 'MSExchangeSubmission.exe.config';
          $fullPath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine([System.IO.Path]::Combine($RoleI
nstallPath, "bin"), $file);
          if (!([System.IO.File]::Exists($fullPath))) { rename-item ($fullPath +
 ".template") $file; }
          set-appconfigvalue -ConfigFileFullPath:$fullPath -Element:configuratio
n/runtime/generatePublisherEvidence -Attribute:enabled -NewValue:false
        " was run: "'SMTPSendPoisonForRemoteThreshold' is an unexpected token. T
he expected token is '"' or '''. Line 13, position 14.".


The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found
in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.

thanks

John

Hi and thanks for any assistance or pointers ahead of time

I am assisting a client with their "freshly" installed Exchange 2013. the Mailbox Transport Submission and Delivery services would not start. I checked that they had no service pack or Cumulative updates installed so started with SP1. the upgrade gets to Mailbox Role: Mailbox service 72% and fails with the below message. I think there was configuration done to the MSExchangeSubmissions.exe.config file I cannot figure out what it was and the upgrade will not continue. can anyone offer some advice?

********error******

Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server

    Restoring Services                                        COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Transport service                           COMPLETED
    Client Access role: Front End Transport service           COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Client Access service                       COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service                   COMPLETED
    Mailbox role: Mailbox service                             FAILED
     The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          $file = 'MSExchangeSubmission.exe.config';
          $fullPath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine([System.IO.Path]::Combine($RoleI
nstallPath, "bin"), $file);
          if (!([System.IO.File]::Exists($fullPath))) { rename-item ($fullPath +
 ".template") $file; }
          set-appconfigvalue -ConfigFileFullPath:$fullPath -Element:configuratio
n/runtime/generatePublisherEvidence -Attribute:enabled -NewValue:false
        " was run: "'SMTPSendPoisonForRemoteThreshold' is an unexpected token. T
he expected token is '"' or '''. Line 13, position 14.".


The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found
in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.

thanks

John

What OS is Exchange installed on?  Also, what version of .Net is installed?

Hello

Can you tel what the latest setup logs entry says in C:\ExchangeSetupLogs. This will give us much help.