Wednesday 15 January 2014

Exchange 2013 DAG Seeding Error: An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used

Recently this issue came up in our test lab whilst updating to and testing Exchange 2013 CU3.

"The mailbox database copy 'DATABASE\SERVER has failed to update from server . Do you want to clean up that
update request now? Seeding cannot be requested for the same database copy until the failed request has been cleaned up
by the server, which should automatically happen within 15 minutes.
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [?] Help (default is "Y"):"

Prompting Yes then presented this error:

"The seeding operation failed. Error: An error occurred while performing the seed operation. Error: An error occurred
while communicating with server 'SERVER'. Error: An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used
[Database: DATABASE, Server: SERVER.FQDN.COM]
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy], SeedInProgressException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=SERVER,RequestId=6e64fbd7-a753-453d-805c-704363ec7495,TimeStamp=03/01/201
   4 11:34:54] A35E0624,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.UpdateDatabaseCopy
    + PSComputerName        : server.fqdn.com"


Additionally this was logged in Event Viewer:


















Subsequent retries failed to successfully seed the database.

However, once the Replication Service was restarted on the DAG member this issue was resolved and seeding was succesful.

Test-ReplicationHealth was not run to see if this would have given in any insight to the offending DAG member. It would be interesting to see if this would have provided anymore useful information. You can find the Technet article on the Exchange cmdlet here.

Take care,
Oliver Moazzezi - MVP Exchange Server



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