Monday, November 11, 2013

Exchange 2013 StalledDueToCI Error

When running some tests on Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 1, namely migrating Public Folders from Exchange 2010 to 2013, I noticed the migration was taking too long. When querying more details regarding the migration request using the cmdlet Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequest | Get-PublicFolderMigrationRequestStatistics -IncludeReport, I noticed the following error:
The job is currently stalled due to ‘Content Indexing’ lagging behind on resource ‘CiAgeOfLastNotification(Mailbox Database 1415171211)’

When checking the ContentIndexState for this database, it was in a FailedAndSuspended state...

It seems there is a bug in Exchange 2013 RTM and CU1 which causes Exchange to not setup all the groups necessary in Active Directory. Specifically for this case is the group “ContentSubmitters”. As such, if you are experiencing this problem, you need to:
    1. Manually create the group in AD under the existing exchange groups OU;
    2. Change the security on the group and allow Administrators and NetworkService accounts Full Control;
    3. Restart the Microsoft Exchange Search and the Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller services on every Mailbox server.

Now, you should notice the mailbox databases content index status changing from Failed to Healthy, with the migrations starting to transfer at a much better speed.

4 comments:

  1. I've got this problem, but am confused by the suggstion.What kind of AD group? Global?
    How do you add Network Service and Administrators to this group since they are not AD accounts?

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    1. Hi Brett,

      Apologies for the delay in replying to you.

      Simply create a normal Global Security Group (this is a dummy group and should be used as a placeholder only).

      If you enable the "Advanced Features" in "Active Directory Users and Computers", go to the properties of this group, go to the "Security" tab, click "Add..." and simply add these two accounts.
      Let me know if you encounter any problems.

      Best regards,
      Nuno

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  2. This group that gets created... does it need to be in the "Microsoft Exchange Security Groups" Container, some other container, or does not matter?
    I tried this fix and it did not work.

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    1. Not sure if it matters as when I came across this I created it in this OU. I know other people who did the same and it worked...
      Are you getting this exact same error?

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