I have an Exchange 2016 CU22 server that has been working well when suddenly stopped flowing email. I've had multiple eyes and experts review the server, rebuilt all the connector components, all to no avail. Since the failure, the security log is filled with the below event:
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An account failed to log on.
Subject:
Security ID: NULL SID
Account Name: -
Account Domain: -
Logon ID: 0x0
Logon Type: 3
Account For Which Logon Failed:
Security ID: NULL SID
Account Name: EXCHDAG$
Account Domain: SomeLocalDomain.LOCAL
Failure Information:
Failure Reason: The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this machine.
Status: 0xC000015B
Sub Status: 0x0
Process Information:
Caller Process ID: 0x0
Caller Process Name: -
Network Information:
Workstation Name: -
Source Network Address: -
Source Port: -
Detailed Authentication Information:
Logon Process: Kerberos
Authentication Package: Kerberos
Transited Services: -
Package Name (NTLM only): -
Key Length: 0
This event is generated when a logon request fails. It is generated on the computer where access was attempted.
The Subject fields indicate the account on the local system which requested the logon. This is most commonly a service such as the Server service, or a local process such as Winlogon.exe or Services.exe.
The Logon Type field indicates the kind of logon that was requested. The most common types are 2 (interactive) and 3 (network).
The Process Information fields indicate which account and process on the system requested the logon.
The Network Information fields indicate where a remote logon request originated. Workstation name is not always available and may be left blank in some cases.
The authentication information fields provide detailed information about this specific logon request.
- Transited services indicate which intermediate services have participated in this logon request.
- Package name indicates which sub-protocol was used among the NTLM protocols.
- Key length indicates the length of the generated session key. This will be 0 if no session key was requested.
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I am convinced this is the core issue that needs to be resolved. Any ideas on how to fix this Security Failure? It seems like the SID has either been wiped out or there is some corruption in the AD machine account. I have already done an Exchange recovery build and the issue persists. I've built a new exchange server to migrate to but the migration fails due to this machine account problem.