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Issue: When installing Exchange 2013 or a 2013 Cumulative Update you receive the following error: "Setup can't use the domain controller because it belongs to Active Directory site SITENAME. Setup must use a domain controller in the same site as this computer COMPUTERNAME" Cause: The setup process is attempting to perform a /prepareschema or /preparead in order to update AD schema for the version of Exchange or CU being installed.  Further, forstprep and domainprep must be ran on a machine Read more [...]

Exchange 2013 CU9 (Cumulative Update 9) was released on 6/16/2015 and is a very recent release of Exchange 2013, however the most recent release is CU12 which was released in May 2016. Warning: CU9 contains an issue that was introduced in CU8 where there is an increased IOPS write load that can cause mail delivery delays to the mailbox database.  For this reason I would not install CU9 and would recommend installing at least CU11 which was the release that resolved this issue. Where to Read more [...]

Warning: All the instructions in the top hits of google for setting up Exchange 2013 HTTP redirection are incomplete, incorrect or both.  The goal of this article is to point out why, followed by providing proper reliable instructions worthy of your time. The bad and why: - Microsoft's instructions don't explain how to 'undo' the redirect setting inherited to the subdirectories or the need to re-check SSL on subdirectories. Here is the link so you know what I'm talking about incase you already Read more [...]

Care needs to be taken when rebooting Exchange DAG Members.  Rebooting an Exchange server that is in a DAG requires switching the active database to the member not being rebooted. 0) Check that all DB's are healthy and check which servers is currently the active server.  Run the following from Exchange Management Shell: Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * -- At this point if you find there is an Exchange server with no active databases, it is considered a Passive DAG Member and you can reboot Read more [...]

Background: You are deploying Exchange 2013 using the CU7 media and are attempting to run setup /PrepareAD. Issue: You receive the following error: "[ERROR] Access to the path 'C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\dsaccessperf.dll' is denied." Note: This error may be contained in the Exchange Setup Logs Solution: 1) delete the "ExchangeSetup" folder contained in C:\Windows\Temp 2) confirm the account you are using is a member of schema admins, enterprise admins and organization management. 3) Read more [...]