Exchange UM Woe’s

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Mitch Roberson

Trying to get exchange 2007 UM installed in a lab environment. Have been for 5 months. I have done it on production systems 3-4 times with no problem. However I am the type that when I run into trouble in my lab I want to fix it not just blow it away and start over. I want to know why it broke. So  Away I go working on this.

I had had previous problems when I had loaded vmware on the server so I could run exchange and UM in  a separate vm. I failed to realize that vmware kicks IIS into 32 bit mode and installs what appears to be .net 1.1. this totally broke OWA. Which I was finally able to fix after multiple rebuilds of IIS. I did not realize that the UM directory was also affected by this. Since I thought I had not tried to install um when this happened (should take better notes next time I probably tried to install it but can’t remember).

So after looking for 2 days I realize that the webconfig file in the UM IIS directory is empty. It says it is 50KB but there is nothing there. So now  I am working on how to recover that. Have a long way to go but will let you know when it is up.

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About Mitch Roberson

Having worked as a consultant at multiple VAR’s as well as Microsoft. Mitch has had the experience of Seeing a multitude of environments. As well as working with both Network, Systems and Security teams. This has allowed him to broaden his knowledge in many areas of IT. Because of this broad experience it has driven him to an almost fanatical desire to have visibility in his environments so he can understand what is happening with in an environment. He still is responsible for day to day operations of Active Directory, Exchange, and much more. But his passion is to learn how applications communicate so he can decrease mean time to resolution.
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