{"id":320,"date":"2013-07-06T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dv8tor.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2013-07-06T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:49:07","slug":"exchange-2010-shenanigans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Exchange 2010: The registry key &quot;SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\ExchangeServer\\v14\\Transport&quot; does not exist under &quot;HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&quot;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> My test lab Exchange environment WAS a single\u00a02010 SP3 CAS\/HT and a single mailbox server. Then all hell broke loose (the environment was turned off for 5 months, and the domain decided not to want to live on this planet anymore).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, cutting to the long and the short of it, I decided to start again completely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Domain was set up again from scratch (2012 domain controllers at a 2003 functional level). We&#8217;re talking a brand new domain and brand new DC&#8217;s. So there should be NO trace of the old environment.<\/li>\n<li>Exchange server was built again from scratch. This also involved running <strong>setup \/prepareschema<\/strong> to update the domain schema ready for the Exchange environment. This was ran as an administrator, in a domain administrator session on the CAS server. The domain admin was also an enterprise and schema admin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this point, things went pear shaped. I started receiving registry error messages at the install level.<\/p>\n<pre>[ERROR] The registry key \"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\ExchangeServer\\v14\\Transport\" does not exist under \"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\".<\/pre>\n<p>The fix (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.righthandedexchange.com\/2013\/02\/how-to-properly-recover-exchange-server.html\">http:\/\/www.righthandedexchange.com\/2013\/02\/how-to-properly-recover-exchange-server.html<\/a>) was as simple as it was annoying. Create the damn key manually in the registry. This then removed the above error and the install continued.<\/p>\n<p>But again\u00a0it just went south from there<\/p>\n<pre>[ERROR] Service 'MSExchangeTransport' failed to start due to error:'Cannot start service MSExchangeTransport on computer '.'.'.<\/pre>\n<p>Now, the site above that gave the registry reference also suggested in this instance to only use the original 2010 installer. However, I had downloaded a full 2010 SP3 ISO from MSDN, so this really\u00a0(IMHO)\u00a0wasn&#8217;t the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: My test lab Exchange environment WAS a single\u00a02010 SP3 CAS\/HT and a single mailbox server. Then all hell broke loose (the environment was turned off for 5 months, and the domain decided not to want to live on this planet anymore). Anyway, cutting to the long and the short&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/?p=320\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dv8tor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}