Hi folks,
In this quick post I will share with you about fixing the error when CAS authentication related modules fail to start on a freshly installed Exchange 2016 server. When launching remote PowerShell I was greeted with the below error and redirected to another server in the same AD site:
Furthermore in the Event Log you will see that the error of loading DLL files for OWA authentication and failure of starting Exchange BackEnd site (ID 2268 and 2214):
This article became very helpful. It pointed me to the missing path to the Exchange bin folder in the Path variable. On the server I was working on it was missing along with the other folders including paths to system folders. So from a healthy Exchange server I copied values of the Path variable and pasted them to the broken server, In my case it was something like below (in real life this of course may vary):
; ;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\oma\bin;C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\shared\bin;C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\idrac;C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Data Center Security Server\Agent\IPS\bin;C:\Program Files\BMC Software\Control-M Agent\Default\exe;C:\Program Files\HP\HP BTO Software\lib;C:\Program Files\HP\HP BTO Software\bin;C:\Program Files\HP\HP BTO Software\bin\win64;C:\Program Files\HP\HP BTO Software\bin\win64\OpC;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Bin\Search\Ceres\Native\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts
I hope you will find this time saving for your troubleshooting and fixing activity.
Enjoy!
