Exchange Web Services | Jaap Wesselius

When running the hybrid configuration wizard on an Exchange 2016 server (in an Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 migration) to create a (classic) hybrid configuration, the wizard failed with several error messages as shown in the following screenshot:

Or in plaint text:

Microsoft.Exchange.Migration.MigrationServerConnectionFailedException. The connection to the server ‘mail.contoso.com’ could not be completed.

Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.MRSRemoteTransientException
The call to ‘https://mail.contoso.com/EWS/mrsproxy.svc’ failed. Error details: The HTTP request was forbidden with client authentication scheme ‘Negotiate’. –> The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden..

Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.MRSRemotePermanentException
The HTTP request was forbidden with client authentication scheme ‘Negotiate’.

Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.MRSRemotePermanentException. The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

I did the following troubleshooting steps:

Manually creating a migration endpoint using the Exchange Online Admin console. This failed as well.
Firewall restrictions were in place, but the Microsoft IP ranges were all configured correctly
Checked the MRS. It was enabled (well, that’s wat the Exchange PowerShell said) and authentication was set correctly

Eventually it turned out that the MRS was the problem. Although Exchange Management Shell returned that the MRS Proxy was enabled, it was not functioning correctly. I disabled the MRS proxy, enabled it again and restarted IIS using the following PowerShell commands:

[PS] C:\> Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity EXCH01\EWS -MRSProxyEnabled $False
[PS] C:\> Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity EXCH01\EWS -MRSProxyEnabled $True
[PS] C:\> IISRESET

When finished, using the Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory command still returned that MRS Proxy was enabled, as shown here:

[PS] C:\>Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -server exch01 | select Name,MRSProxyEnabled
 
Name                   MRSProxyEnabled
----                   ---------------
EWS (Default Web Site)            True

But this time it was working correctly and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard finished successfully.

Currently I’m working on an environment where 6,000 test mailboxes are created. During test migrations all kinds of information is stored in these mailboxes. You can use Exchange Web Services to empty these mailboxes.

To empty the (test) mailboxes you need the following:

Exchange Web Services Managed API;
An account with enough permissions to empty the mailboxes;
A script that does the actual plumbing.

The Managed API can be downloaded from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13480 and it runs on Windows 7 clients or Windows 2008 (R2) servers.

The script will logon to the mailboxes with an account that needs sufficient permissions. You can set the permissions on the Exchange CAS Server using the following commands:

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