After doing a new install of Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016 I go to https://ex1/ecp, attempt to log in and get:
This page isn’t working ex1 is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500
I have removed and create a new OwaVirtualDirectory, I have checked to make sure the groups that EX1 is a part of is not a part of Domain Admins, Schema Admins, Enterprise Admins, Organization Admins.
Running Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | FL Identity,auth,URL returns:
Identity : EX1\owa (Default Web Site)
ClientAuthCleanupLevel : High
InternalAuthenticationMethods : {Basic, Fba}
BasicAuthentication : True
WindowsAuthentication : False
DigestAuthentication : False
FormsAuthentication : True
LiveIdAuthentication : False
AdfsAuthentication : False
OAuthAuthentication : False
ExternalAuthenticationMethods : {Fba}
Url : {}
InternalSPMySiteHostURL :
ExternalSPMySiteHostURL :
SetPhotoURL :
Exchange2003Url :
FailbackUrl :
InternalUrl :
ExternalUrl :
I can see that no internal or external URLs are showing which I think may be related to the problem, but don't know what to do for sure.
The only oddities in the install were:
- During the first install there were errors that I had to fix (Windows Updates), after updates and reboot I attempted to reinstall through the GUI but it erred thinking it was already installed and I had to reinstall using cmd.
- I manually added the domain administrator account (as well as my other admin account) to schema admins and enterprise admin groups for the install.
- I unfortunately don't remember the error, but during install through cmd, there was some message that popped up saying that something in IIS wasn't setup, like a * http redirect I think? I don't know and I've since rebooted so can't scroll back to see it again. I feel like this is causing the issue.
EDIT:
I have now also tried running UpdateCas.ps1 with no success as well as the following:
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $False -BasicAuthentication $True
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $True -BasicAuthentication $True
Get-EcpVirtualDirectory | Set-EcpVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $false -BasicAuthentication $true
Get-EcpVirtualDirectory | Set-EcpVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $true -BasicAuthentication $true
iisreset
As well as:
Get-EcpVirtualDirectory | Set-EcpVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $false -BasicAuthentication $true -WindowsAuthentication $true
Get-OWAVirtualDirectory | Set-OWAVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $false -BasicAuthentication $true -WindowsAuthentication $true
iisreset
Recycle MSExchangeECPAppPool
Recycle MSExchangeOWAAppPool
Event Viewer shows Event ID 1023:
Exchange ActiveSync tried to access a mailbox on Mailbox server "EX1.mydomain". It could not access the mailbox because the Mailbox server is offline.
I feel that this must be the answer, I haven't had a chance to configure any mailbox datastores so the administrator would be in the default one. I cannot however locate how to find and mount this. Any ideas?
