No, you can survive just fine without a hub transport server, it wont affect your mailbox roll at all (you just wont be able to send/receive email without it).
One of the nice things about 2007 and the role based architecture is that you can add/remove server rolls (and servers) without affecting other services. This type of thing should be a real quickie, uninstall and then re-install. But like MBS said, the recoverserver option is for recovering servers from DR instances. That would mess up your lab :) -troy -----Original Message----- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Will uninstalling the Hub Transport role and not re-installing it with the recoverserver switch affect the mailbox servers? Right now, I have the mailbox servers restored in the lab along with all the data in each storage group. I am able to open mailboxes with no issues. We started the lab with a copy of Active Directory from the production environment and then restored each of the Exchange Servers with the recoverserver option. We wanted to keep everything as close to production as possible. The only problem right now (that I'm aware of), is mail getting stuck in the queue on the Hub Transport server. I just want to make sure uninstalling the Hub Transport isn't going to cause us to have to rebuild the lab? Thanks. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Oh no....recoverserver is only used when a server is crashed and has to be rebuilt without a successful deinstallation. To reinstall: Setup.com /mode:install /roles:ht Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Thanks. If that successfully removes the Hub Transport Server role, should I then... Setup.com /M:RecoverServer To re-install the role and import the Active Directory information? -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Drop to the directory where you have Exchange 2007 sp1 exploded: Setup.com /mode:uninstall /roles:HT Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. I have not uninstalled / re-installed the Hub Transport. If I go into Add/Remove Programs (or place the Exchange 2007 Server CD in), all the current options for Server Roles are grayed out when I get to the Add/Remove section. The only thing it will let me do is add the Unified Messaging Server Role. I ran the Test-SystemHealth, and all I received back was..."Background Value missing, could cause size discrepancies". These are the other steps I've tried from suggestions I've found on the Internet. Verify all services are running on all servers. Verify Firewall Filters are not blocking network traffic. Mailbox and Hub Transport are not in a perimeter network. Plenty of hard drive space on all servers. Get-Transport Agent, then disable / enable each Agent one by one. >From mailbox server, telnet hub-server 25 (successful connection). Verify Send/Receive connectors are configured properly. Change Receive connectors to allow anonymous users. Verify both Domain Controllers are Global Catalogs. Reboot all Domain Controllers and Exchange 2007 servers. Verify the groups Everyone, Administrators, Backup Operators, Power Users and Users are in Group Policy Object MMC, under local computer policy - computer configuration - windows settings - security settings - local policies - user rights management - access this computer from the network. The only other thing I've found so far is someone saying...."I ran into this problem, spent 5 hours on the phone with Microsoft to modify the registry. It was determined that the Hub Transport Install was corrupt". Ugh. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Totally generic IT reply, but its easy, Have you uninstalled and re-installed your HT? When you run test-systemhealth from the EMS does it return anything useful? -troy -----Original Message----- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Yes, we have two Domain Controllers in the lab that are both Global Catalog servers. Rob McCready Dayton Power & Light Enterprise Messaging Administrator 331-4570 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. Is this environment an exact match or is there only one DC? Check with DC the hub transport is talking to. Also is the DC in the lab a GC? -----Original Message----- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2008 14:32 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Hub Transport can't talk to Active Directory. We recently built a lab to mock our production environment. For some reason, the Hub Transport server does not appear to be talking to Active Directory. If I send an email from the mailbox server, it just hangs in the Hub Transport Queue. Event Viewer shows.... Source: MSExchangeMailSubmis Category: MSExchangeMailSubmiss Event ID: 1009 User: N/A Computer: Hub Transport Description: The Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission service is currently unable to contact any Hub Transport servers in the local Active Directory site. The servers may be too busy to accept new connections at this time. >From the research I've done and the possible fixes I've ran across, I've >already.... Verified the local disks are not low on storage. Made sure no Firewall filtering is taking place for network data or blocking RPC. Exchange is not in a perimeter network. Rebooted the Domain Controller, Hub Transport and Mailbox servers. Verified Microsoft Exchange AD Services and Transport Services are running. 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