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Microsoft Exchange Event id 3 WebHost failed to process a request

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 31/01/2013 - 16:29 |
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When you expirience the following issues in your Microsoft Exchange environment:

  • You receive an error when you access Exchange Management Console or Exchange Management Shell.
  • The Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission Service may not start.
  • The Microsoft Exchange Transport Service may not start.
  • Users cannot delete email messages from Microsoft Outlook Web Access and receive the following error message:  An unexpected error occurred and your request couldn’t be handled

and in Event Log you can find:

Event ID: 3 
Description:
WebHost failed to process a request.

 

Event ID: 1031
Description:
The service configuration file could not be loaded for the following reason: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Configuration system failed to initialize —> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized configuration section system.serviceModel. (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config line 134) at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSchemaErrors.ThrowIfErrors(Boolean ignoreLocal)

 

Event ID: 1002
Description:
Unable to start the Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission service: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Configuration system failed to initialize —> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized configuration section system.serviceModel. (C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Config\machine.config

 

This mean that you have installed KB2756920, you can read about it more here: KB2756920 .NET Framework Update.

 

To fix those issues you need to install HotFix: KB2637518 Hotfix for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows 7 RTM and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM

 

Exchange 2010 remove mobile device Error The ActiveSyncDevice Cannot be Found

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 30/01/2013 - 02:27 |
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When you are trying to remove or wipe mobile device connected to mailbox, you can get error like below:

The ActiveSyncDevice Cannot be Found

You will get this error when you are trying to remove mobile device which were connected to user mailbox, and after user account was moved to other OU in Active Directory.

It’s caused because EMC can’t find “path” to old mobile device.

You can easly check this using two powershell commands:
Get-ActiveSyncDevice
Get-ActiveSyncDeviceStatistics
If you run CMDlet Get-ActiveSyncDeviceStatistics for some mailbox like below:

Get-ActiveSyncDeviceStatistics -mailbox JSmith | select DeviceId, Identity

you will get:

DeviceID                 Identity
--------                 --------
androidc1640524549       domain.local/Users/Test1/Smith John/.....
androidc2040902280       domain.local/Users/Test2/Smith John/.....

next try to run CMDlet Get-ActiveSyncDevice for the same mailbox:

Get-ActiveSyncDevice -Mailbox JSmith | select DeviceId, Identity

you will get:

DeviceID                 Identity
--------                 --------
androidc1640524549       domain.local/Users/Test2/Smith John/.....
androidc2040902280       domain.local/Users/Test2/Smith John/.....

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Get-MessageTrackingLog how to speed up

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 28/01/2013 - 10:31 |
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Searching message tracking logs with cmdlet Get-MessageTrackingLog can take long time when you need to search few Hub Transport Servers.

Below command will search all transport logs on all Exchange Hub Transport servers and find only messages with subject “Important *”:

Get-TransportServer | Get-MessageTrackingLog -resultsize unlimited -start (get-date).adddays(-2) -end (get-date) -eventid Deliver | ? {$_.messagesubject -like "Important *"}

 

You can speed up this search by using remoting Powershell using CMDlet Invoke-Command.

You need to modify command like below and add Invoke-Command:

Get-TransportServer | Invoke-Command {Get-MessageTrackingLog -resultsize unlimited -start (get-date).adddays(-2) -end (get-date) -eventid Deliver | ? {$_.messagesubject -like "Important *"}}

 

 

Symantec Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 released

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 25/01/2013 - 14:52 |
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Symantec released new version of Enterprise Vault, number of this version 10.0.3

vault

 

 

New version can be downloaded from https://fileconnect.symantec.com/ where you need to type serial number.

How to obtain the installation download and license keys for Enterprise Vault

 

PDF file with compatibility list you can download from here:
compatibility_charts.pdf

Whats new in Symantec Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 ?

New version supports Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Outlook 2013.

Below you can find few informations whats new in this version:

  • Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
  • Support for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
  • Support for Microsoft Outlook 2013 (on the desktop)
  • Support for Windows 8 (desktop edition)
  • Support for Windows 2012 as a File System Archiving target
  • Gateway support for 64-bit Domino.
  • Mac client OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) support

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Exchange DAG check status using powershell

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 24/01/2013 - 02:43 |
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When we want to check DAG (Database Availability Groups) status we should use two below powershell CMDlet’s:

 

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus will check and show status of all mailbox databases in all the DAG’s in Microsoft Exchange environment.

Test-ReplicationHealth check all aspects of replication and replay, or to provide status for a specific Mailbox server in a database availability group (DAG).

To check copy status of all mailbox databases we should use:

(Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup) | ForEach {$_.Servers | ForEach {Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server $_}}

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Windows Phone 8 Exchange sync Error Code 86000C29

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 23/01/2013 - 02:31 | ,
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If you are using mobile devices with Windows Phone 8, and you sync mail with Exchange windows8-windows-phone-82Server, you can get Error Code 86000C29

 

 

This problem is caused by Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync policy which prevent to sync your mailbox with mobile device with Windows Phone 8

 

When your mobile device is trying to sync mailbox from Exchange Server, first ActiveSync policy is enforced for this device. If device can’t pass policy requirements than it can’t sync mailbox.

Because mostly ActiveSync policy Require Encryption on Storage Card.

So to resolve this issue you need to open EMC, Organization Configuration, Client Access, tab Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies.

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Microsoft Exchange 2013 exams 70-341 70-342 available

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 22/01/2013 - 01:30 |
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Since January 15 2013 Microsoft published official exams for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013.

 

Exchange2013_cert

 

Before you could take beta version of those exams, but now you can pass regular exams.

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Office Visio Stencil for Exchange 2013

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 21/01/2013 - 06:35 |
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Microsoft released Visio stencil for Microsoft Exchange 2013.

This stencil contains Exchange 2013 specific icons to help you create visual representations of Microsoft Exchange 2013 deployments, including on-premises, hybrid, and Office 365.

 

Exchange2013Visio

 

This Visio stencil provides icons – many depicting servers, server roles, services, and applications — that you can use in architecture diagrams, charts, and posters

Visio stencil for Exchange 2013 can be downloaded here:

Office Visio Stencil for Exchange 2013

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Help files

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 20/01/2013 - 17:37 |
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Few days ago on Microsoft published Help files for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 as an offline version.

Files can be downloaded from:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Help

Two files are available:

  • Exch2013HybridHelp.exe – Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Hybrid Deployments
  • Exch2013OnPremHelp.exe –  Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

 

Exchange2013Help

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Exchange 2010 mobile device wipe with confirmation

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 18/01/2013 - 15:13 |
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When you want to wipe mobile device in Microsoft Exchange 2010 you can use Exchange Management Consoleth.

 

In Exchange Management Console, find mailbox, right click on mailbox and select Manage Mobile Phone. In new window select mobile device and select Perform a remote wipe to clear mobile phone data and click Clear

 

But in this case we won’t get any information when wipe operation will be complete.

When we want to get confirmation when wipe opeartion will finish, we have to use Exchange Management Shell (EMS).

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