Exchnage 2019 on prem EMS not working. Recreating Exchange Virtual Directories failed
I have two exchange 2019 on prem in DAG. Recently EMS (Exchange management shell) on both servers stop working and I tried to delete and recreate on MAIL2 but unsuccessful. Basically it return error that The AD configuration for virtual directory 'Powershell' already exists I tried to delete first with Remove-PowerShellVirtualDirectory I tried clean up IIS and AD but still getting this error, even that in ADSI edit I delete all powershell objects for MAIL2 Exchange Health Checker: beside that server is in maintenance mode, nothing interesting. just the last line: Default Web Site/PowerShell has authentication set, which is unsupported. Error form PowerShell: New-PowershellVirtualDirectory : The AD configuration for virtual directory 'Powershell' already exists in 'CN=Powershell (Exchange Back End),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=MAIL2,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=rcompany,DC=local', please remove this AD configuration manually. Parameter name: VirtualDirectoryName At line:1 char:1 New-PowershellVirtualDirectory -Name "Powershell" -Role "Mailbox" -Re ... CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (MAIL2\Powershell (Exchange Back End):ADObjectId) [New-PowerShellVirtualDirectory], ArgumentException FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=MAIL2,RequestId=2bb82483-c56a-4e4f-8d08-c81691b34bd1,TimeStamp=11/4/2025 2:31:50 PM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-ArgumentException] B318F342,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurat