Now, during all this I was asked whether we could just power off the server and remove it using ADSIEdit. I was then able to run setup again to uninstall the server, which was successful. This time setup was able to complete the installation, which repaired the server.
Setup is failing on the Front End Transport service in my case (see above), which is the “FrontEndTransportRole” in the registry.Īfter removing the Action and Watermark entries, I tried the Exchange install again. There’s a tip about it here on the Exchange Masters blog. Thinking back to other Exchange setup-related disasters I’ve encountered, I remembered that Exchange stores some information about setup progress in the registry. You can't resume setup by performing the action Setup previously failed while performing the action "Uninstall". Mailbox role: Front End Transport service Setup will now collect additional information needed for installation. Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3 Unattended Setupįile copy complete. D:\>setup /m:install /r:m /iacceptexchangeserverlicenseterms Taking Exchange at its word, I tried to reinstall the partially uninstalled server by running setup again. Run setup to complete Exchange installation. Unfortunately, Exchange setup now throws an error message that…Īn incomplete installation was detected. When Exchange setup fails on an uninstall the first thing you would logically try is another uninstall. The error itself is not all that important for this article, since there are many different errors that might put you in the same position I found myself in, rare as that may be. The uninstall process failed on step 5 of 13 and threw an error. I ran into an interesting issue while I was removing an Exchange 2016 server from an environment.