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MarkusOE
Brass Contributor
Apr 29, 2025
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HCW fails to detect an Exchange Server

I'd like to acquire a free hybrid license using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard. However to me that seems to require HCW detects the Exchange Server on the second page. However it doesn't detect any ...
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    MarkusOE
    Apr 30, 2025

    SOLVED.

    I don't understand the root cause. However I could work around the issue by having my admin-account which I use to execute HCW from the protected users group temporarily.
    Thanks to everybody who contributed and thanks to Lenovo for the following support article which reported the same cause in a different context.
    https://support.lenovo.com/nz/de/solutions/ht515867

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AnnTaeYoun
MVP
Apr 30, 2025

Please run Windows PowerShell next command!

$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://MYNEWEXCHANGESERVER01/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos -Credential (Get-Credential)
Import-PSSession $session

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MarkusOE
Brass Contributor
Apr 30, 2025

Thanks AnnTaeYoun. I ran your command using username format domain.local\adm-xyz from powershell.exe (not Exchange Management Shell) and it was accepted. However afterwards there were no Exchange CMDlets available like get-exchangeserver or get-mailbox.

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    AnnTaeYoun
    MVP
    Apr 30, 2025

    MarkusOE Below command run nothing else matter?

    Import-PSSession $session 

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      MarkusOE
      Brass Contributor
      Apr 30, 2025

      Thanks AnnTaeYoun. That did the job. After "Import-PSSession $session" I got the correct reply to get-exchangeserver.

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        AnnTaeYoun
        MVP
        Apr 30, 2025

        Thanks MarkusOE Please retry run Hybrid Configuration Wizard!

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