Office 365 migration endpoint fails

Question

Can not create a migration endpoint in Office 365 to on-prem Exchange 2016. Everything else works, Outlook and OWA work. When I troubleshoot with Test-MigrationServerAvailability I keep getting "The RPC server is unavailable". I have tried autodiscover switch and manually setting the rpc server and exchange server. Same error. I have verified the user account permissions and valid login with OWA.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Get-ClientAccessService - dont see anything for External - should there be?
Get-OutlookAnywhere - ExternalUrl is correct
Get-MapiVirtualDirectory - ExternalUrl is correct
Get-OabVirtualDirectory - ExtrnalUrl is correct
Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory - ExternalUrl is correct (ExternalAuthenicationMethods is blank, what should it be?)
Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory - ExternalUrl is correct
Get-EcpVirtualDirectory - ExternalUrl is correct
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory - ExternalUrl is correct
MX is correct
Did I miss anything?
Thanks!!

Answer 2

Hello,

How should the o365 migration point connect to your exchange? When the EWS (Default Web Site) is on an internal link?

Have you tried to set the "exchange proxy" in O365 migration config to something like https://mail.xxx.net/EWS/Exchange.asmx ?

you should check all the exchange url.

Get-ClientAccessService
Get-OutlookAnywhere
Get-MapiVirtualDirectory
Get-OabVirtualDirectory
Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory
Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory
Get-EcpVirtualDirectory
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory

Look  what  you get back for
-internalurl
-externalurl

at least the external url should be an "routable" domain. like https://mail.*****.net/.....

And check your mx DNS entries with

nslookup
set type=mx
mail.****.net
or yourdomain.net (without mail.)

Answer 3

When I access the Autodiscover URL:
<Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/responseschema/2006">
<Response>
<Error Time="12:55:45.6740272" Id="3668329655">
<ErrorCode>600</ErrorCode>
<Message>Invalid Request</Message>
<DebugData/>
</Error>
</Response>
</Autodiscover>
When I run Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory
Name Server InternalUrl

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EWS (Default Web Site) server02 https://server02.internal.local/EWS/Exchange.asmx
EWS (Default Web Site) server01 https://server01.internal.local/EWS/Exchange.asmx
EWS (Default Web Site) server03 https://server03.internal.local/EWS/Exchange.asmx

Was there specific info from the command you were looking for?
Thanks!!

Answer 4

I am finding inconsistent results. When I run command Test-OutlookWebServices -Identity user@keyman .com -MailboxCredential (Get-Credential) over and over I get different results. Occasionally it says successful for all 4 tests.
The Autodiscover: Outlook Provider seems to always be successful.
The Exchange Web Service sometimes is Failure.
The Availability Service sometimes is Failure
The Offline Address Book is always seems to be successful.
Where do I look for these issues?
Thanks

Answer 5

Hi @David McBride

According to your description above, you failed creating a migration end point in O365 side. What migration are you going to perform?

Could you please provide the complete error information you received when perform the migration and create the migration endpoint?

Have you tried using ExRCA tool to test if there is any connectivity issue?

Here is the official document introduces about the issue "The RPC server is unavailable" which occurs when you try to perform a cutover migration from an on-premises Exchange organization that uses Outlook Anywhere (also known as RPC over HTTP) to Exchange Online.

We may also try creating the migration endpoint manually, New-MigrationEndpoint. Espically check the descriptions for different types of migrations

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