Thank you both for your advice. I reinstalled Server 2008 Enterprise again. I think fully patched the O/S with the exception of IE 9 which of course failed. I downloaded Exchange CU7 to have the latest and then followed the steps for the prerequisites.
There were a few things in the tech net article that seemed puzzling. First, it said to prep AD by installing 4.5.2 and also installing Windows Management Framework 3.0. Further in the article it said to install things in order and it appears that those two
items might have been out of order as it mentions them again. Another puzzle is that I could not get Knowledge Base article KB2533623 (Insecure library loading could allow remote code execution to install. None of the listed versions ran and it said it was
not applicable to this O/S, The next area that gave me issues was %SystemDrive%\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -ir enable. This would not run. At that point, I attempted a reinstall. Here are the results:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\>cd exchange2013CU7 (this is the directory where I unzipped the downloaded software)
C:\Exchange2013CU7>setup.exe /m:recoverserver /iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 Unattended Setup
Copying Files...
File copy complete. Setup will now collect additional information needed for
installation.
Languages
Mailbox role: Transport service
Mailbox role: Client Access service
Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service
Mailbox role: Mailbox service
Management tools
Client Access role: Client Access Front End service
Client Access role: Front End Transport service
Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check
Configuring Prerequisites COMPLETED
Prerequisite Analysis
COMPLETED
Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server
Preparing Setup
COMPLETED
Stopping Services
COMPLETED
Copying Exchange Files COMPLETED
Language Files
COMPLETED
Restoring Services
COMPLETED
Language Configuration COMPLETED
Mailbox role: Transport service FAILED
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
$maxWait = New-TimeSpan -Minutes 8
$timeout = Get-Date;
$timeout = $timeout.Add($maxWait);
$currTime = Get-Date;
$successfullySetConfigDC = $false;
while($currTime -le $timeout)
{
$setSharedCDCErrors = @();
try
{
Set-SharedConfigDC -DomainController $RoleDomainController -ErrorV
ariable setSharedCDCErrors -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue;
$successfullySetConfigDC = ($setSharedCDCErrors.Count -eq 0);
if($successfullySetConfigDC)
{
break;
}
Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("An error ocurred while setting shar
ed config DC. Error: " + $setSharedCDCErrors[0]);
}
catch
{
Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("An exception ocurred while setting
shared config DC. Exception: " + $_.Exception.Message);
}
Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Waiting 30 seconds before attempting
again.");
Start-Sleep -Seconds 30;
$currTime = Get-Date;
}
if( -not $successfullySetConfigDC)
{
Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Error "Unable to set shared config DC.";
}
" was run: "System.Exception: Unable to set shared config DC.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ThrowError(Exception exception
, ErrorCategory errorCategory, Object target, String helpUrl)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception
, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.WriteExchangeSetupLog.InternalPro
cessRecord()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__b()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.InvokeRetryableFunc(String fun
cName, Action func, Boolean terminatePipelineIfFailed)".
The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found
in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
The setup log is very lengthy so I will not paste it in here. Let me know if a copy is needed and I can email it to you.
Thank you for your assistance.
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