Installing Exchange Server 2013 Filtering Management Service Error 2201

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I'm currently trying to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on a Windows Server 2012 x64 machine.

The setup goes smoothly until the step "Mailbox role: Transport service".
There, the setup hangs at 98% for several (long) minutes and throws this error :

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Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); 
          if ($RoleStartTransportService)
          {
              start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeTransport -MaxWaitTimeForRunningState 0:0:40
          }
        " was run: "Service 'FMS' failed to reach status 'Running' on this server.".

Obviously it has something to do with the FMS service. After a reboot, I tried to start it manually, and got an "Unexpected error".

I then went to see the event log and found this error from FIPFS marked as critical with ID 2201:

General info on the error states this :

The current permissions for the FIP-FS configuration file "accès au chemin d" may be incorrect; access was denied.

Apparently there is a config file somewhere but I cant find it…

The detailed infos are the following :

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
   <System>
      <Provider Name="Microsoft-Filtering-FIPFS" Guid="{1BE3A000-EA09-4AB8-B0A0-30BBB6793D80}" /> 
      <EventID>2201</EventID> 
      <Version>0</Version> 
      <Level>1</Level> 
      <Task>0</Task> 
      <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
      <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords> 
      <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-04-13T02:30:30.371225000Z" /> 
      <EventRecordID>35120</EventRecordID> 
      <Correlation /> 
      <Execution ProcessID="5816" ThreadID="9076" /> 
      <Channel>Application</Channel> 
      <Computer>ks204653.TheGroup.local</Computer> 
      <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> 
  </System>
  <EventData>
      <Data Name="FilePath">accès au chemin d</Data> 
      <!-- Note from myself: this means "access to path D" -->
  </EventData>
</Event>

From this log I understand that FIPFS is trying to access D:\ and cant. The D drive is my virtual DVD drive where the Exchange Server image is loaded (Please note that it's a legal image taken with my MSDNAA account). I installed with all settings left to default, logged on Administrator account. I also tried to Run as Administrator Setup.EXE with no success.

This is my first time installing Exchange Server, and I have to admit I'm having a hard time and Google did not help with this error.

Any idea about what I could do ?

If you need additional infos please ask in the comments. Thanks.

Best Answer

Yes I had the same issue.. To resolve it I had to disabled the tcpip ip6 on the local Area connecton i.e

  1. Open Registry Editor.
  2. Locate the following registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpip6Parameters
  3. In the details pane, click New, and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  4. Type DisabledComponents, and then press ENTER.
  5. Double-click DisabledComponents, and then type 0xffffffff in Hexadecimal

Hope it helps

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