During a migration of a mailbox from one forest to a new Exchange Forest I encountered the following problem:
(PID 5396, Thread 640) Task New-MoveRequest writing error when processing record of index 0. Error: Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.MailboxReplicationTransientException: Service ‘net.tcp://cas001.lab.local/Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService’ encountered an exception. Error: MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make connection to the server. (hr=0x80004005, ec=2423)
_Diagnostic context:</p>
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Lid: 12952 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: prm[3]: Long val: 1722
Lid: 16280 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: ComputerName: n/a
Lid: 8600 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: ProcessID: 2268
Lid: 12696 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: Generation Time: 2010-06-30 12:15:24:818
Lid: 10648 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: Generating component: 8
Lid: 14744 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: Status: 1722
Lid: 9624 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: Detection location: 1442
Lid: 13720 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: Flags: 0
Lid: 11672 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: NumberOfParameters: 1
Lid: 8856 dwParam: 0x6BA Msg: EEInfo: prm[0]: Unicode string: EX02
Lid: 45169 StoreEc: 0x977
Lid: 52465 StoreEc: 0x977
Lid: 60065
Lid: 33777 StoreEc: 0x977
Lid: 59805
Lid: 52209 StoreEc: 0x977
Lid: 19778
Lid: 27970 StoreEc: 0x977
Lid: 17730
Lid: 25922 StoreEc: 0x977 —> Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.MailboxReplicationTransientException: Exception details: MapiExceptionNetworkError (80004005): MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make connection to the server. (hr=0x80004005, ec=2423)</em>
But what is the cause of this error? Well there are multiple causes of this issue. The message MapiExceptionNetworkError tells you that there is a problem connecting to a server. The next question is which server? This can be found on the rule starting with Lid 8856, when looking at the end of the rule you will see the name of the server, in this case EX02.
When looking a little bit further in the log you will see the 0x80004005 error code which might be caused by an authentication problem.
This last option could be easily verified by performing the new-moverequest again and this time with the correct credentials.
But when this does not work which things can cause can you check:
- is the server reachable
- check the firewall settings on both sides
- can you resolve the server on NETBIOS name
I admit the last option is a little bit strange, but in this case caused the issue. On the NIC the default DNS suffixes where registered but not the old one. After adding the old suffix in the TCP/IP configuration the command worked without any issues.
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