Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration

Hello,

When you’re administering an Exchange Hybrid deployment, sometimes, the remove move migration don’t work anymore. Hereunder a few steps you can follow to help you understand how you can fix it.

Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration – MigrationServerAvailability

First, check the migration server availability :

Test-MigrationServerAvailability -ExchangeRemoteMove -RemoteServer mail.itfordummies.net -Credentials (Get-Credential -Message 'Onprem Creds')

Test-MigrationServerAvailability

You need to pass this step in order to complete a migration batch creation. You can also use this line :

Test-MigrationServerAvailability -ExchangeRemoteMove -Autodiscover -EmailAddress emmanuel.demilliere@itfordummies.net -Credentials (Get-Credential -Message 'Onprem Creds')

You need to change the email or the domain name to fit your needs.

Depending on the error you have, you can check other things, hereunder some exemples, this is not a exhaustive list :

Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration – Endpoints

Get-MigrationEndpoint

Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration – Endpoint

You should see your endpoint here, you can try to recreate it to be sure it uses the right account/DNS name :

Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration – Endpoint GUI

Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration – Endpoint GUI Details

You can also verify the permissions assigned to the service account of the endpoint.

Troubleshooting Hybrid Migration – MRS

Test-MRSHealth

Test-MRSHealth

You need to run this on your Exchange server on premise.Each test should pass in order to move forward in your troubleshooting.

You can also check at some settings of the Mailbox Replication Service itself :

Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory | Format-List MRSproxyEnabled,WSsecurityAuthentication

MRS Proxy & Authentification

Both of these should be set to true, if you modify them, you need to run an “IISReset” for them to applied :

Set-WebservicesVirtualDirectory -Identity 'YourServerNameEWS (Default Web Site)' -MRSproxyEnabled:$True -WSSecurityAuthentication:$True
iisreset

You need to change the server name to fit your needs.

After each step you can run the “Test-MigrationServerAvailability” cmdlet, once it succeeds, you’re good to go :

Succeed

You can now create your migration batches like you were used to.