Exchange 2010 – No Exchange servers are available in any Active Directory sites
KB ID 0000658 Problem Seen when trying to connect to the Exchange 2010 Management Console. Initialization failed. The following error occurred while searching for the on-premises Exchange server: No Exchange servers are available in any Active Directory sites. You can’t connect to remote Powershell on a computer that only has the Management Tools role installed. It was running the command ‘Discover-ExchangeServer -UseWIA...
Exchange – Delete and Recreate the PowerShell Virtual Directory
KB ID 0000700 Problem One of the big drawbacks of Exchange management being built on PowerShell, and it talking to the PowerShell virtual director is, when IIS has a problem, you can’t manage your Exchange via the command shell, or the Exchange Management Console. While trying to fix a problem last week I wanted to remove and recreate the PowerShell virtual directory, and I found the PowerShell command, but no working examples...
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Fails ‘Readiness Checks’
KB ID 0000720 Problem When attempting to install Service Pack 2 on an Exchange 2010 Server the ‘Readiness Checks’ fail for the Client Access Role, Client Access Role Prerequisites Failed Error: The ‘IIS 6 WMI Compatibility’ component is required. Install the component via Server Manager. Click here for help…...
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 Error – ‘The IIS 6 WMI Compatibility component is required’
KB ID 0000771 Problem If you attempt to install Exchange Service Pack 3 on an Exchange server that is currently running Service Pack 1 you will see this error. Error: The ‘IIS 6 WMI Compatibility’ component is required. Install the component via Server Manager. Solution Note: This was a prerequisite for SP2, so if you do not see this error your Exchange was deployed with SP2 slipstreamed into it, or the problem was dealt...
Installing Exchange 2010 on Server 2012
KB ID 0000785 Problem With the release of Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3, Exchange 2010 is now supported on Windows Server 2012, but as there (at time of writing) is no media with SP3 slipstreamed into it, installing the product on Windows Server 2012 is a little problematic. If you got here because you have tried and have got an error, follow the procedure below and you should have the product installed and running without any further...