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Installation failure on an Exchange Server 2016 with CU6

Paragon GD

Hello there,

We are having trouble installing Sophos PureMessage 4.0.3 on our Exchange Server 2016 with CU6 on Windows 2016. The installer fails at "Start copying Files" and errors out with these messages:

PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange: setup unable to create the PureMessage databases - Error details: COM error-code 0x80004005 : Unspecified error

And then dialogue box popup with:

Setup encountered an error while gathering system information for the server installation -- Error details: COM error-code 0x80004005 : Unspecified error
Error code 1603 was returned when running:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msiexec.exe ADDLOCAL=ClientInstall,ClientServerInstall,ServerExchangeStore,ServerInstall,ServerMain,ServerAntiSpam /qb /lvoicewarmupx! C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\Temp\MsiPureMessage-20171013122948.log SETUP_INIPATH=C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\PureMessageSetup.ini REBOOT=Suppress TRANSFORMS=:1033 /i "D:\pme_403_64_AVAS\PM\Sophos PureMessage.msi“

Our current setup is a three node DAG and we have managed to install PureMessage on one of the nodes, however the installation fails on the remaining two nodes.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks



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    Hi Paragon

     

    As with any destructive kb ensure you have a proper FULL backup.

    But it sounds like this https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/26084  may be your issue. 

     

    If you're not comfortable in the DB I would recommend installing the debugger and contacting support as 4005 is a fairly generic error.

     

    https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/33556

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    We finally managed to install PureMessage on two remaining nodes. Turns out to be an issue with DFSR role in Windows 2016. It seems you can't add member servers to a replication group on the GUI tools. Sophos support had suggested checking if DFSR replication group was created and if not referred us to this article, to manually create it

    Article ID: 60679
    Title: PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange: how to create a DFSR replication group as required by the PureMessage installer
    URL: http://sophos.com/kb/60679

     

    Since the bug exists in the DFSR management tool, I was unable to create a new group and instead created it using PowerShell 

     

    New-DfsReplicationGroup -GroupName "Sophos_PureMessageRG_YourDAGName" -DomainName yourdomain.com

     

    Add-DfsrMember -GroupName "Sophos_PureMessageRG_YourDAGName" -ComputerName Server1,Server2,Server3 -DomainName yourdomain.com

     

    Get-DfsReplicationGroup | New-DfsReplicatedFolder -FolderName "Sophos PureMessage Quarantine"

     

    Add-DfsrConnection -GroupName "Sophos_PureMessageRG_YourDAGName" -SourceComputerName "Server1" -DestinationComputerName "Server2"

     

    Add-DfsrConnection -GroupName "Sophos_PureMessageRG_YourDAGName" -SourceComputerName "Server1" -DestinationComputerName "Server3"

     

    Get-DfsReplicationGroup | Set-DfsrMembership -FolderName "Sophos PureMessage Quarantine" -ContentPath "C:\Program Files\Sophos\PureMessage\Quarantine" -ComputerName "Server1" -PrimaryMember $true -StagingPathQuotaInMB 16384 -Force

     

    Get-DfsReplicationGroup | Set-DfsrMembership -FolderName "Sophos PureMessage Quarantine" -ContentPath "C:\Program Files\Sophos\PureMessage\Quarantine" -ComputerName "Server2","Server3" -StagingPathQuotaInMB 16384 -Force

     

    After creating the replication groups via PowerShell, PureMessage installed successfully.

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