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Exchange 2010 Hosting and Service Pack 3

In Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is was possible to create a hosting specific implementation by using the /hosting switch during setup. The /hosting implementation is discontinued by Microsoft and replaced by Address Book Policies in Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Address Book Policies solution is continued in Exchange 2013.

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New-ReceiveConnector fails

When creating a new Receive Connector on Exchange Server 2007 SP3 (Update Rollup 2) the creation failed with a non-retriabele error and a “the requested attribute does not exist” error:

Active Directory operation failed on DC02.labs.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: The parameter is incorrect.
Active directory response: 00000057: LdapErr: DSID-0C090C3E, comment: Error in attribute conversion operation, data 0, v1db1
The requested attribute does not exist.
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
new-ReceiveConnector -Name ‘Relay X2007SP3’ -Usage ‘Custom’ -Bindings ‘10.0.0.217:25’ -RemoteIPRanges ‘10.0.0.213-255.255.255.255’ -Server ‘X2007SP3’

According to this article on the Microsoft Exchange Team site more people are facing this issue (scroll through the comments). It looks like something specific to UR1 and UR2 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/09/09/456198.aspx

Microsoft is aware of this issue and it is currently being investigated. It looks like the schema upgrade during SP3 is not performed properly sometimes, resulting in an incorrect schema for Service Pack 3. Unfortunately the setup application of SP3 continues, resulting in these kind of errors.

That being said, you can solve it by running the Exchange 2007 SP3 schema upgrade again:

Setup.com /PrepareSchema

After this creation of a new Receive Connector is successful.

When this issue is fully investigated by Microsoft and a solution is available an official Microsoft knowledgebase article will be available as well.