Further progress on my first SBS 2011 migration project was slowed today by another interesting discovery...
The AVG Online Shield and Resident Shield components interfere with the launch of the Exchange management components on the local machine.
Initial thoughts were that I'd bricked it by playing around with certificate bindings. Cue furious investigation of IIS application pools, checking that all IP addresses were bound to the default website and that the IPV6 ::1 address could be accessed.
Eventually I discovered this article
http://www.avgforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1275
This was my issue - WinRM being blocked and the EMC timing out when trying to find the local server.
Disabling the AVG components one by one, eventually the EMC launched, to my significant relief as the thought of doing an IIS reinstall mid way through a migration really didn't appeal.
I guess what's happening here is that the "safe search" components are manipulating the stream of data between the EMC and the Powershell virtual directory which is used heavily by Exchange 2010.
It transpires from a colleague that using the email server or sharepoint server edition will install only very basic components of AVG, minus all the user mode crap that's not required in server installs...Strange, but true. I see a reinstall happening tomorrow.
Life certainly is a learning curve, and this SBS 2011 sure is a steep curve, despite 15 years IT experience!!!!
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