Exchange 2013 Install – Setup exe Unhandled Exception
When installing the Exchange 2013 preview you may come across the error below
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type ‘System.Security.Claims.ClaimsPrincipal’ from assembl
y ‘mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Setup.Bootstrapper.Common.BootstrapperLogger.LogUserName()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Setup.Bootstrapper.Common.BootstrapperLogger.StartLogging()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Bootstrapper.Setup.BootstrapperBase.MainCore[T](String[] args)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Bootstrapper.Setup.Setup.Main(String[] args)
y ‘mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Setup.Bootstrapper.Common.BootstrapperLogger.LogUserName()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Setup.Bootstrapper.Common.BootstrapperLogger.StartLogging()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Bootstrapper.Setup.BootstrapperBase.MainCore[T](String[] args)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Bootstrapper.Setup.Setup.Main(String[] args)

exchange 2013 unhandled exception
First make sure in power shell you have ran the following commands
Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS
Once done restart the server.
Then I installed the .net 4.5 framework which can be found here.
You also need the windows managment framework which is here
Then you will need a restart.
Once rebooted drop to power shell and run the commands below, we need to install the Server Manager Module so we can run the subsequent commands.
Import-Module ServerManager
Then ( copy and paste )
Add-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework, NET-HTTP-Activation, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Web-Server, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI
You again need to reboot your server. Once done you can now run the setup command from poewrshell and the install will commence.
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Comments (2)
Sean H
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Great write up, fixed the issue with no questions asked.
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Allen White
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Glad to help Sean, hopefully the Alpha and Beta release will be a bit easier to install.
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