Exchange Server 2013 Update

Question

Hi,

We're trying to update our exchange hybrid deployment to exchange server 2019 and I've encountered somewhat of a roadblock. When I run the pre-requisite checks it throws up an error that we need to update our 2 Exchange 2013 CU 13 servers to CU 21 and I've encountered this error:

Error:

The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); 

          if (Get-Service MpsSvc* | ?{$_.Name -eq 'MpsSvc'})

          {

            Set-Service MpsSvc -StartupType Automatic

            Start-SetupService -ServiceName MpsSvc

          }

        " was run: "Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ServiceCommandException: Service 'Windows Defender Firewall (MpsSvc)' cannot be configured due to the following error: Access is denied ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---".

From googling around it seems that it's referring to some sort of incompatibility. The 2 exchange servers we currently have are running Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2019. Is it actually the case where I can't update this version of exchange and I need to go through the process of just installing Exchange Server 2019 on a fresh environment?

Thanks in advance,

Dan

Answer 1

Hello Dan,

I'm John an Independent Advisor and a Windows user like you. I'll be happy to assist you today.

I want to apologize that this is just a consumer forum. Due to the scope of your question, I recommend posting your query on Microsoft Site Q&A which is a technical community platform where most of the members were IT professionals that would greatly help you with the issue. They have IT experts there that can assist you better especially about Windows Servers, Active Directory and Group Policy configurations, etc.

Microsoft Site Q&A

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products/

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor