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<h2 align="center" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><u><span style="background: yellow; color: red; font-family: ";calibri"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 14.0pt;">Troubleshooting Hybrid Configuration Wizard failures</span></u><u><span style="color: red; font-family: ";calibri"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h2>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Each step of the Hybrid Configuration Wizard is logged as it executes, and this log file is the best place to start investigating the underlying reason for the failure. You&#8217;ll find these logs under the Exchange Server installation directory, within the LoggingUpdate-HybridConfiguration folder &#8211; for example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Common Reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A common reason for the Hybrid Configuration Wizard to fail is due to the<span> ;</span><em><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Get-FederationInformation</span></em><span> ;</span>cmdlet over on the Office 365 side being unable to retrieve federation information from the on-premises Exchange environment, even if everything is already setup correctly. We&#8217;ll see the lines in the log file that correspond to this error below:</span><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">The cmdlet executed was ;<i>Get-FederationInformation -DomainName &#8216;exchangelabs.co.uk&#8217;</i> ;indicating that it was run from the Office 365 tenant because it&#8217;s looking up our On-Premises accepted domain, rather than our Office 365 service domain.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">We&#8217;ll now connect using PowerShell to our Office 365 Exchange Online tenant, and attempt to reproduce the error. You can connect to Exchange Online by opening a new PowerShell session and using the instructions provided by Microsoft and reproduced below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">After connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell we&#8217;ll retry the same cmdlet that previously failed and examine the output</span><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">In particular with the cmdlet above, you may find that after retrying the cmdlet a couple of times, it will successfully complete. If it doesn&#8217;t then the next steps will be to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Revisit the checks in part one of this article to ensure that Remote Connectivity Analyser test complete successfully &#8211; particularly AutoDiscover and Exchange Web Services tests for this accepted domain.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Review TMG or Firewall logs to confirm that requests are successfully reaching the edge of your organization from the Exchange Online datacentre IP addresses, ;<span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">listed here</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Run the same cmdlet from an On-Premises Exchange Management Shell, but with the ;<i>-Verbose</i> ;parameter to confirm it works internally and display detailed information about any error.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Review IIS log files, typically located within ;<i>C:inetpublogsLogFiles</i>, for the date and time that the cmdlet was executed to firstly ensure that requests to ;<i>/autodiscover/autodiscover.svc</i> ;are received by the Exchange Server itself.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<h2 align="center" style="background: white; text-align: center;"><u><span style="background: yellow; color: red; font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tests to perform after the Hybrid Configuration Wizard completes</span></u><u><span style="color: red; font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></h2>
<div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">After you&#8217;ve successfully completed the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, it&#8217;s now important to perform tests to make sure everything actually functions as intended. We&#8217;ll look to perform the following tasks to ensure functionality in key areas works:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before testing real clients with Office 365, we can use the Remote Connectivity Analyser (RCA) to highlight any issues before we encounter them with actual client software; the benefit of using the RCA to test is that when a test fails the troubleshooting information provided will serve as a great starting point to solving the underlying issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="background: white; color: #c00000; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Testing Client functionality, including OWA, ActiveSync and Outlook Anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">After successful tests using the Remote Connectivity Analyser, we&#8217;ll be in a good position to test actual client functionality with a great chance of success. The tests I would suggest include the following, both from your internal network, and externally:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Typically if tests fail from your internal network, but succeed from the Remote Connectivity Analyser or from external clients, internal firewalls or proxy servers may be to blame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Federated Sharing Features primarily allow free/busy and Calendars to be shared between uses in both on-premise and Office 365 sides of your Hybrid Exchange environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Both availability and calendar sharing rely heavily on Exchange Web Services for functionality, and the configuration and testing put in place in the first part of this article should ensure that both work, however it&#8217;s important to test these features and at the same time understand how it should be used by end users.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">The following tests should be performed to ensure functionality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; tab-stops: list 72.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Test Calendar sharing by creating calendar sharing requests<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l2 level2 lfo3; tab-stops: list 72.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you have a larger organization with Exchange servers in multiple Active Directory sites, test to and from test users in non-internet facing Active Directory sites after testing against users in internet facing sites.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li style="background: white; color: #c00000; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-top: 6.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">Testing Mailbox Moves.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">The final feature ;that is ;important to test, if you plan on moving Mailboxes either to or from Office 365, is Remote Moves. To ensure you can move mailboxes both ways, ensure you test:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , ";sans-serif";; font-size: 12.0pt;">To initiate moves, navigate either to your On-Premises or Office 365 organization in the Exchange Management console and expand ;<i>Recipient Configuration >; Mailbox</i> ;to find the mailbox you want to move to the opposite organization, then right-click and choose ;<i>New Remote Move Request:</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , sans-serif;"><i>http://cloudxperts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/migration-to-office-365-part2-using.html</i></span></div>
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<div style="background: white; margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 11.7pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: ";arial"; , sans-serif;">Credit : Microsoft MSDN, exchange.org and Google</span></div>
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