Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Exchange 2010 Management Shell into Existing Exchange 2007 Servers

By default Exchange 2010 Management Shell (EMS 2010) cannot manage/access information stored on the Exchange 2007 servers such as IIS configuration in the example below. When attempting to get information from an Exchange 2007 server in an Exchange 2010 management shell you will receive the following error:

An IIS directory entry couldn't be created. The error message is Access is denied.
. HResult = -2147024891
+ CategoryInfo : NotInstalled: (PER-EXCHMBX\Exchange (Default Web Site):ADObjectId) [Get-OwaVirtualDirecory], IISGeneralCOMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : EBEB5204,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.GetOwaVirtualDirectory


For example here we have an Exchange 2010 shell and an Exchange 2007 shell. We can see the Exchange 2010 shell cannot access the Exchange 2007 servers... where the Exchange 2007 shell is fine.



To allow the Exchange 2010 shell to connect to the Exchange 2007 servers you must add "Microsoft Exchange Security Groups\ Exchange Trusted Subsystem" as a local admin to all Exchange 2007 servers.

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