Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010: The “Swing” Migration – Part 3

Cleaning up errors after installation of Exchange 2010 in a co-existing environment setup.

At this point the new Exchange 2010 Server is peacefully co-existing with the Exchange 2003 Server. I have not changed routing or anything.

Referring back to Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010: The “Swing” Migration – Part 2, I ran into a few errors during my 2 week testing period. These errors appeared every 15 minutes in the event log and were always in the same group of 3.

Event ID: 2501

Source: MSExchange ADAccess

Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGY (PID=1416). The site monitor API was unable to verify the site name for this Exchange computer – Call=DsctxGetContext Error code=8007077f. Make sure that Exchange server is correctly registered on the DNS server.
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Event ID: 2604
Source: MSExchange ADAccess

Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGY (PID=1416). When updating security for a remote procedure call (RPC) access for the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service, Exchange could not retrieve the security descriptor for Exchange server object EX2010 – Error code=8007077f.

 The Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service will continue starting with limited permissions.

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Event ID: 2601

Source: MSExchange ADAccess

Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGY (PID=1416). When initializing a remote procedure call (RPC) to the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service, Exchange could not retrieve the SID for account – Error code=8007077f.

 The Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service will continue starting with limited permissions.

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After hours of scouring the web I found the problem revolved around the network bindings on the new Exchange 2010 Server. The server itself had 4 NIC cards with only a single card in use. This caused problems when it was trying to retrieve information from servers.

Solution:

 To modify network adapter bindings in Windows Server 2008

1. Log on to the computer by using an account that has Administrator rights.

• Click Start, click Run, type ncpa.cpl, and then click OK.

1. In the Network Connections dialog box, press ALT+N to display the Advanced menu.

1. Click Advanced Settings.

1. In the Connections box, click the active network connection, and then click the arrow to move the connection to the top of the list.

• Click OK.

1. Restart the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service. When you restart this service, the following dependent services must also be stopped and restarted:

• Microsoft Exchange Transport Log Search

• Microsoft Exchange Transport Log

• Microsoft Exchange Service Host

• Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer

• Microsoft Exchange Replication Service

• Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission

• Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants

• Microsoft Exchange File Distribution

• Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync

• Microsoft Exchange Anti-spam Update

Resources:

• Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010: The “Swing” Migration – Part 2
• Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010: The “Swing” Migration – Part 1

An inactive network connection is first on the binding list

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What other odd errors have you run across?