Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition (part 4)

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition (part 4)

April 29, 2013 2 By Eric Shanks

R2D2MailboxMicrosoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition Part 1

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition Part 2

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition Part 3

 

I want to take a second to explain that this series of posts on how to migrate to Exchange 2013 didn’t come without it’s share of difficulties.

Upon the installation of Exchange 2013 I was able to connect to the Exchange Admin Console without issue.  I documented all of the procedures from the first three posts.  However after I restarted my Exchange Server I was unable to login anymore.  I would continually get a blank page which I’ve seen others having the same issues.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/fb105a41-48df-4b85-ac07-ba94d767b9e8/

http://nethop.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/cannot-access-exchange-contorl-panel-ecp-in-exchange-server-2013/

I was unable to fix this issue using any of the methods described and built a new Exchange 2013 server thinking I did something wrong.  After the second Exchange Server did the exact same thing, I’ve decided that Microsoft needs to add a patch for whatever problem is happening.  Maybe it’s a bug with IIS, Server 2012 or Exchange 2013 but I have not made any modifications to the IIS virtual server directories so I’m concluding that it’s a Microsoft bug.

If anyone has suggestions for other users, please post them below so that we can get this solved.  I’ll update this post if I ever find a solid solution to this puzzle.