we are having problems with our System Mailbox and Offline address books.
So I removed the system mail box as instructions... and ran:
setup.exe /PrepareAD /OrganizationName:"Domain.com" /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
and I get Failure - straight from the setup log: Now what the hell do I do?
[10/02/2016 12:43:58.0902] [0] RuntimeAssembly was started with the following command: '/preparead /organizationname: Domain.com /IacceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /sourcedir:C:\Installs\Exchange 2013\Exchange'.
[10/02/2016 12:43:58.0902] [0] The registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\v8.0, wasn't found.
[10/02/2016 12:43:58.0902] [0] The registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14, wasn't found.
[10/02/2016 12:43:58.0902] [0] Copying Files...
[10/02/2016 12:43:58.0902] [0] Starting copy from C:\Installs\Exchange 2013\Exchange\Setup\ServerRoles\Common to C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup.
[10/02/2016 12:43:59.0746] [0] Finished copy from C:\Installs\Exchange 2013\Exchange\Setup\ServerRoles\Common to C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup.
[10/02/2016 12:43:59.0762] [0] File copy complete. Setup will now collect additional information needed for installation.
[10/02/2016 12:43:59.0762] [0] Assembly dll file location is C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\Microsoft.Exchange.Setup.Console.dll
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0090] [0] Setup is choosing the domain controller to use
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0230] [0] The MSExchangeADTopology has a persisted domain controller: AWS-AD1.Domain.com
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0262] [0] [ERROR] Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0277] [0] [ERROR] Method not found: 'Boolean
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Mime.MimeAddressParser.IsValidDomain(System.String, Int32, Boolean)'.
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0277] [0] The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the <SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0277] [0] End of Setup
[10/02/2016 12:44:01.0277] [0] ******