Exchange 2013 Install – Setup exe Unhandled Exception

Written by Allen White on July 31, 2012. Posted in Exchange 2013, Microsoft

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)

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.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29909

You also need the windows managment framework which is here

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29939

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.

exchange 2013 preview setup

Allen White

Allen is an IT Consultant and holds the following accreditations. MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, CCA, CCSP, VCP 4,5, 6 and HP ASE, AIS - Network Infrastructure.