Issue with Exchange 2019 on premise management shell after server 2025 "upgrade"

Question

This is occurring on 2 sites that we are trying to migrate from on premise exchange and since the "auto" upgrade of server 2025 happened we are unable to access the management console

The Exchange Admin Centre appears to be working fine and the SSL certificate is up to date

Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

Hi, @Darren Woolley

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Today Exchange Server 2019 releases CU15. with the release of CU15, CU13 is now no longer supported due to the “N-1” policy. If you are using an older version, please update it and try again.

Released: 2025 H1 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server | Microsoft Community Hub

If you are a supportable version. Depending on the error message, this could be that WinRM is not enabled or the listener is not configured. Run the following command as administrator:

winrm quickconfig
winrm enumerate winrm/config/listener

This will start the WinRM service, set it to start automatically, and configure a listener for WS-Management protocol messages.

Installation and configuration for Windows Remote Management - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn

If you are using a non-domain member, you must use Basic Authentication, and you must also set Basic Authentication on the virtual directory, as shown below:

Get-PowerShellVirtualDirectory -Server ServerName | Set-PowerShellVirtualDirectory -BasicAuthentication:$TRUE

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