Server operation timed out / messages stuck in drafts

I'm trying to recover my Exchange environment to a isolated environment.

Data Center environment consists of the following

DC01 - domain controller
DC02 - domain controlled
MailSvr1 and MailSvr2 in a DAG
CASHUB1 and CASHUB2 - client access / transport servers

I have recovered the following servers in my isolated enviroment
DC02, MailSvr2, CASHUB1

I was able to get the databases to mount and can see all my email. However, when I try to send an email to myself, it sits in the Drafts folder (OWA), and if I click the drafts folder I get "The operation timed out, please try again later". Sometimes I will get this if I just try to open an email, in this isolated environment

I tried to run test-Mailflow MailSvr2 and it came back as failure.

If I restart the servers, when it comes back up, I then have the emails in my inbox that were stuck in the drafts earlier.

I feel like I'm missing something simple, just can't figure out what it is.

Any ideas?


  • Edited by Pres Saturday, October 05, 2013 5:15 PM
October 5th, 2013 12:01am

First you need to check if DC has all the FSMO roles and if it's a GC roles and check if DNS is working in that environment.
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October 5th, 2013 12:22am

DNS seems to be working fine and the recovered DC is a GC, but only has the Schema Master and Domain Naming Master roles

PDC, RID and Infrastructure are currently owned by another DC (not recovered)

I noticed if I'm on any recovered server and open putty, I can send mail through telnet and it shows up in my inbox

October 5th, 2013 12:33am

seized all the roles, and still same results....bummer
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October 5th, 2013 4:06am

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to update this post. Emails were getting stuck in the drafts folder in OWA, and would not send, unless I restarted the servers. I decided to leave this isolated environment running all night and now it works perfectly, so it must have been DNS/AD issue.

Is there a specific command that I'm missing that could have sped this up?

October 5th, 2013 8:15pm

Hi,

Since we cannot reproduce the issue, we would better check app log in CASHUB1 server.

If there is any error concerned with AD issue, then we could turn to app log on DC server.

Regards,

Rebecca

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October 7th, 2013 6:01am

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