Common Exchange 2007 Errors

· (Windows Server 2008) A new mailbox creation fails with following message: “An Exchange 2007 server on which an address list service is active cannot be found”.
The “Microsoft Exchange System Attendant” service is not running.
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· (Windows Server 2008) The exchange Data store fails to mount after disabling IPV6 on a Windows Server 2008.
Re-enable IPV6 for the network interface.
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· (Windows Server 2003/2008) When running “Setup /prepareAD /OrganizationName:%name%” following error message is received “Error:A reboot from a previous installation is pending. Please restart the system and rerun setup.”

Although the message is pretty straightforward, the same message appears after rebooting the system. The setup check following registry path “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\PendingFileRenameOperations. The entries in this path are set by previous installations and are awaiting execution. For some reason the rename failed, and therefore the entry is not removed. Manually remove the entries will allow the Exchange Setup to proceed.
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· (Windows Server 2008) Running “Setup /PrepareAD /OrganizationName:%name%” fails with access denied.
Be sure to run the command with administrative privileges.
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· (Windows Server 2008) Following warning is shown during the setup. "Warning:Setup cannot detect an SMTP or Send connector with an address space of '*'.Mail flow to the Internet may not work properly.".
Complete the installation and create proper Receivers and connectors to assure mailflow from and too the internet.
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· (Windows Server 2008) Following Warning is shown on the Client Access Server:
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Microsoft Exchange Warning
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The following warning(s) were reported while loading topology information:
Get-OWAVirtualDirectory
Completed
Warning:
The virtual directory "Exchange (Default Web Site)" is not configured correctly. This server has the Mailbox server role installed, so HTTP compression must be disabled. You can use the IIS Manager to disable compression.
Warning:
The virtual directory "Public (Default Web Site)" is not configured correctly. This server has the Mailbox server role installed, so HTTP compression must be disabled. You can use the IIS Manager to disable compression.

Warning:
The virtual directory "Exchweb (Default Web Site)" is not configured correctly. This server has the Mailbox server role installed, so HTTP compression must be disabled. You can use the IIS Manager to disable compression.
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OK
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Open the IIS Manager, click the default website, than sub sellect the "Exchange" website in the left pane. In the middle pane (under IIS), double click compresion and desellect "Enable Static Content Compression".
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-(Windows Server 2003/2008) The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant fails to start.
Following event is notted in the event viewer:
Source: MSExchangeTransportL EventID:7005

Microsoft Exchange couldn't read the configuration from the Active Directory directory service because of error: Failed to load config due to exception: Microsoft.Exchange.Common.ExClusTransientException: The Windows Cluster service encountered an error during function OpenCluster:. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The interface is unknown

Check your site configuration and see if the correct subnet(s) are defined.
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-(Windows Server 2003) new mailbox cannot be accessed through https://%Servername%/Owa although the mailbox resides on a Exchange 2007 mailbox server.

Inner ExceptionException type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.InvalidADObjectOperationExceptionException message: Property Languages cannot be set on this object because it requires the object to have version 0.1 (8.0.535.0) or later. Current version of the object is 0.0 (6.5.6500.0).

The mailbox was created using ADUC (DSA.MSC) and not the Microsoft Exchange 2007 tools. Therefore the mailbox is marked as legacy and can therefore not be accessed through OWA 2007. Open the Exchange Management Shell, and type: Set-Mailbox %Alias% -applymandatoryproperties
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