Exchange 2010
Exchange 2010:- Exchange RPC service can’t be started.
After rebooting a server we found the following error in the event logs along with whole stack of others: Right, so the Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access would not start. To fix this error, you can do the following: Locate the Remote Procedure call (RPC) Locator...
Exchange 2010:- Managing a DAG and Group Membership fails.
As part of the migration to Exchange 2016 you might have to recover an Exchange 2010 member server or both if you have storage corruption or the VM's OS has simply become unusable. Recovery is done and when you try add the member server/s back to the Database...
Exchange 2010/2016: DAG member showing as down in Failover Cluster Manager
In Exchange whether it is Exchange 2010 or 2016 or maybe even 2019, when you setup a Database Availability Group (DAG) requires Failover Cluster Manager to be installed and when the DAG is formed you can see it in Failover Cluster Manager. In normal circumstances your...
Exchange 2010:- Uninstall fails on prerequisites
When decommissioning Exchange 2010 Hub servers, you sometimes run into a small issue where you forget to remove the server from all your send connectors and you are presented with the error below: The error is self explanatory. Head over to the Exchange Management...
Quickly fix an Exchange 2010 server that won’t complete the setup
In one of my older blog posts we encountered an error while trying to decommission a DAG and remove the members. Now when trying to do a recovery installation, the error below is pretty straight forward compared to what is listed in the previous blog post but the...
Exchange 2010:- Error removing DAG Member
Removing DAG members to either retire the DAG or perhaps recover the server should be easy? In some cases you do run into errors that require some manual work to be done. In this case, we were trying to remove DAG members so we can re-purpose the servers, however, we...
Exchange 2010:- WinRM cannot complete the operation. Verify that the specified computer name is valid…
In the Exchange Management Shell, when running a command that you need info from another server, you might end up with the following error in red writing: [Server] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot complete the...
Exchange 2010: Cannot moderate messages sent to distribution group
In exchange, if you have moderation on your distribution list and try and moderate a message sent to it, you might receive the following error message: "Your message can't be moderated because the approval system is too busy and can't accept messages now. Please...
Exchange 2010:- DAG member evicted from cluster
As an Exchange Admin, the last thing you want is a DAG that is not functioning correctly. A client recently experienced a problem whereby they were trying to add another copy to a DAG and after a short period of time the following events were logged in the System Log...
Exchange 2010:- Error 0xe0434f4d (unknown error) when checking DAG status
Running the command Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * on an Exchange 2010 Server that has Exchange 2016 in the environment, returns all the database copies for every version but today Exchange 2010 gave a weird error: A server-side administrative operation has failed....