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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Exchange 2013 CU12 HubTransport Component Stuck in Draining

I recently rolled out Cumulative Update 12 (CU12) on our Exchange 2013 servers, and after completing the install on one of the multirole servers, it wouldn't come out of Maintenance Mode. The HubTransport Component was stuck in the Draining State.

What happened was, when running the "Set-ServerComponentState $Computer -Component HubTransport -State Active -Requester Maintenance" Maintenance cmdlet, it just hung and didn't return to the next line in the EMS.

To verify that the Component State is stuck, in the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) on another server run:

Get-ServerComponentState "servername"

**Note** Change "servername" to affected server

You'll see something like this:

Server                               Component                               State
------                                 ---------------                              ------
MBX1                              ServerWideOffline                   Active
MBX1                              HubTransport                           Draining
MBX1                              FrontendTransport                    Active
MBX1                              Monitoring                                Active
MBX1                              RecoveryActionsEnabled         Active
MBX1                              AutoDiscoverProxy                  Active
MBX1                              ActiveSyncProxy                      Active


On the server that you ran the above cmdlet on, run:

Set-ServerComponentState -Identity "servername" -Requester Maintenance -Component HubTransport -State Active

**Note** Again, change "servername" to affected server.

Now, check the components again, and it should be Active:

Server                               Component                               State
------                                 ---------------                              ------
MBX1                              ServerWideOffline                   Active
MBX1                              HubTransport                           Active
MBX1                              FrontendTransport                    Active
MBX1                              Monitoring                                Active
MBX1                              RecoveryActionsEnabled         Active
MBX1                              AutoDiscoverProxy                  Active
MBX1                              ActiveSyncProxy                      Active


Once it's Active, you can continue bringing the server out of Maintenance Mode.

Happy updating!

1 comment:

  1. Money! Many Thanks for the information as it fixed my issue.

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