Exchange 2016 – Setup fails with error “Service ‘MpsSvc’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server”

Exchange 2016 – Setup fails with error “Service ‘MpsSvc’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server”

Just recently I ran into an error during initial setup of Exchange 2016 on a newly installed Windows Server 2012 R2 stating: “Service ‘MpsSvc’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server“. Further down the troubleshooting road I found out that this quite common error of not being able to start the Windows Firewall service is not Exchange Server specific.

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Microsoft KMS / VAMT v2.x and v3.x – Error 0x80070054 – Storage to process this request is not available

Microsoft KMS / VAMT v2.x and v3.x – Error 0x80070054 – Storage to process this request is not available

Just recently I came upon an Microsoft KMS error stating Error 0x80070054 – Storage to process this request is not available.

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This error was quite annoying as at first I didn’t had a clue what this was all about. The error message itself could be quite misleading and left me poking in the dark… Eventually I found a possbile solution.

This blog article as been updated. Pls consult the updated section at the bottom of my post.

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