Exchange Server 2010 Troubleshooting Issues – Part IV

First of all a HUGE THANKS to Yuval Sinay for putting this information together.

The following article will provide a summary on common issues in Exchange 2010 deployment in the Enterprise. The information in this article consists of my own experience and official Microsoft knowledgebase articles. Due to the fact that your Exchange environment may vary, please read the information carefully and test the suggestions from this article - in a lab that can demonstrate the current Exchange infrastructure.

The article is divided to the following chapters:

1. General issues in Exchange 2010 deployment.

2. Best practices in Exchange 2010 deployment.

3. Common issues in Exchange 2007 migration to Exchange 2010.

4. Common issues in Exchange 2003 migration to Exchange 2010.

Common issues in Exchange 2003 migration to Exchange 2010.

• During mailbox movement, the following error may appear: “Active Directory operation failed on DC. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150A45, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0"
  • Use Remove-MoveRequest command to cancel the mailbox movement.
  • Verify that the account that is used has permissions to access the mailboxes in the Exchange 2003 server.
• During access to user mailboxes that reside on Exchange 2003 from Exchange 2010 management tool, the following error may appear: "Property Expression “User name” isn’t valid. Valid values are : Strings that includes ‘@’, where ‘@’ cannot be the last character."
  • Use ADSIEdit and fixed the following users attributes that may contain a space in the beginning: “User Alias” and “Username”.
  • Error message occurs when you move a mailbox from an Exchange Server 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010 server
• The following error may appear during Exchange 2003 migration: “Event ID 1036 is logged on an Exchange 2007 server that is running the CAS role when mobile devices connect to the Exchange 2007 server to access mailboxes on an Exchange 2003 back-end server.”
  • Event ID 1036 is logged on an Exchange 2007 server that is running the CAS role when mobile devices connect to the Exchange 2007 server to access mailboxes on an Exchange 2003 back-end server
  • Install Update for Exchange 2003 (KB 922817) on each Exchange 2003 server.
  • Review the instructions in https://support.microsoft.com/kb/937031.
  • Move the user mailboxes to the Exchange 2010 server.