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Exchange 2013 won't show admin console after login.

I have been recently trying to set up a certificate on exchange 2013 and I really don't know what I've changed, now it does not allow me to see the admin console after the login. attached is a picture of the webpage and management shell also, I remember last making changes to the virtual directories and created a SRV record, however I have deleted the record and still haven't been able to see the admin console. Any ideas?
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Viral Rathod

You have to disable SSL if you don't have HTTPS certificates. It tries to redirect the login to https://localhost and fails. That is why I got weird server errors, and forbidden.

Untick Require SSL on the Default Website and click Apply

Viral Rathod

Since you have deleted SRV record than A record must be present on DNs server to resolve your server name.

Either create SRV record OR A record

Viral Rathod

Error “Failed To Connect To An Exchange Server In The Current Site” While Running Exchange 2013 Shell

https://theucguy.net/error-failed-to-connect-to-an-exchange-server-in-the-current-site-while-running-exchange-2013-shell/

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Viral Rathod

what happens when you access https://mail.domain.com. com/OWA ?

Viral Rathod

if issue is still persist than try steps given on following article

Exchange 2013- Blank ECP / OWA screen, event ID 15021 HttpEvent in system event log.

http://www.exchangedictionary.com/solutions/event-id-15021-error-occurred-while-using-ssl-configuration

http://adam1115sblog.blogspot.in/2014/03/exchange-2013-blank-ecp-owa-screen.html

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2971270

jdff

ASKER

It worked! It was the certificate in the Exchange back end site. Now I will try to fix the Outlook Anywhere problem.

jdff

ASKER

I have mail.domain.com set for external and internal on Outlook Anywhere, I will also delete the autodiscover A record from the external DNS.

Viral Rathod

I do apologize for the inconvenience.

Yes, In your external DNS zone, remove any HOST (A) or CNAME records for the Autodiscover service.
Use the following parameters to create a new SRV record:

Service: _autodiscover
Protocol: _tcp
Port Number: 443
Host: mail.domain.com

Please refer this url to setup SRV on external DNS.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/940881

Viral Rathod

Since in our case we do not have Autodiscover. domain. com in ssl certificate we need to create SRV record internally & externally which tells Autodiscover to take setting from mail. domain. com

jdff

ASKER

No need to apologize Viral, thank you very much for the help, you are a true life saver. Please look at the attachment, there are more variables...
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jdff

ASKER

I think I got, I will wait some time and try again.

Viral Rathod

Name       @
Target       mail.domain.com
Protocol       _tcp
Service       _autodiscover
Priority       0
Weight       0
Port       443
TTL       1 hour

Viral Rathod

Sure, Please keep us posted.

Viral Rathod

Following Records must be there in External DNS

Previously,

FQDN      DNS record type      Value
domain.com        MX        Mail.domain.com
mail.domain.com        A        172.16.10.11
autodiscover.domain.com       A        172.16.10.11 - (Deleted)

After creating SRV records,

FQDN      DNS record type      Value
domain.com        MX        Mail.contoso.com
mail.domain.com      A        172.16.10.11
mail. domain. com SRV _autodiscover