On a New Exchange 2013 Installation – Transport Service was not starting and setup was keep failing.
Event viewer details –
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeTransport
Event ID: 5023
Task Category: Routing
Level: Error
Computer: SCHOEXCH01.careexchange.in
Description:
A transient configuration error was detected while the routing configuration was loading. Exception details: Unable to determine the local Active Directory site : Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.Categorizer.TransientRoutingException: Unable to determine the local Active Directory site
at Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.Categorizer.RoutingTopology.Validate()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Transport.Categorizer.RoutingTablesLoader.<>c__DisplayClass3.<TryLoadRoutingTablesAndNotify>b__2()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADNotificationAdapter.RunADOperation(ADOperation adOperation, Int32 retryCount)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADNotificationAdapter.TryRunADOperation(ADOperation adOperation, Int32 retryCount)
Resolution:
Open Adsiedit.msc – Browse to below location in the configuration partition
Configuration – Services – Microsoft Exchange – First Organization – Exchange administrative group – Servers
Fill in the attribute – msExchServerSite
To get the Right value – Open Configuration partition – Sites – Browse the the site where the server is location – Properties – distinguishedName
Start the Exchange Transport Service.
Re run the setup. It worked fine.
Seeing the Exchange Setup logs :
[08/01/2015 12:20:01.0441] [2] Will wait ‘25000’ milliseconds for the service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ to reach status ‘Running’.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0674] [2] Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server after waiting for ‘25000’ milliseconds.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0674] [2] Service Control Manager reports no process ID for service MSExchangeTransport.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0689] [2] Unable to get the process ID for service MSExchangeTransport because another similar process 0 was found
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0689] [2] [ERROR] Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [2] [ERROR] Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [2] Ending processing start-SetupService
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.ServiceDidNotReachStatusException: Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ThrowError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory errorCategory, Object target, String helpUrl)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.WriteError(Exception exception, ErrorCategory category, Object target)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ManageSetupService.WaitForServiceStatus(ServiceController serviceController, ServiceControllerStatus status, Unlimited`1 maximumWaitTime, Boolean ignoreFailures, Boolean sendWatsonReportForHungService)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ManageSetupService.StartService(ServiceController serviceController, Boolean ignoreServiceStartTimeout, Boolean failIfServiceNotInstalled, Unlimited`1 maximumWaitTime, String[] serviceParameters)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ManageSetupService.StartService(String serviceName, Boolean ignoreServiceStartTimeout, Boolean failIfServiceNotInstalled, Unlimited`1 maximumWaitTime, String[] serviceParameters)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.StartSetupService.InternalProcessRecord()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord()
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] [ERROR] The following error was generated when “$error.Clear();
if ($RoleStartTransportService)
{
start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeTransport -MaxWaitTimeForRunningState 0:0:40
}
” was run: “Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.”.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] [ERROR] Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=BridgeheadServiceControl___fe1e918090cf487999f06438464a7f11 Component=EXCHANGE14:\Current\Release\Shared\Datacenter\Setup
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0705] [1] Finished executing component tasks.
[08/01/2015 12:20:26.0720] [1] Ending processing Install-BridgeheadRole
[08/01/2015 12:24:06.0818] [0] CurrentResult setupbase.maincore:396: 0
[08/01/2015 12:24:06.0833] [0] End of Setup
[08/01/2015 12:24:06.0833] [0] **********************************************
