I came across the most peculiar issue I’ve seen so far with Exchange 2016.
Installed a greenfield setup and the ECP/OWA page was broken by default with the following entry in event viewer:
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Event code: 3005
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: 9-9-2017 22:26:57
Event time (UTC): 9-9-2017 20:26:57
Event ID: 53b3f1166cb147408cb97bc79483c3f5
Event sequence: 2
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0
Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/2/ROOT/owa-4-131494624100042355
Trust level: Full
Application Virtual Path: /owa
Application Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\owa\
Machine name: EX01
Process information:
Process ID: 7756
Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Exception information:
Exception type: TargetInvocationException
Exception message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.
at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
at Owin.Loader.DefaultLoader.<>c__DisplayClass12.<MakeDelegate>b__b(IAppBuilder builder)
at Owin.Loader.DefaultLoader.<>c__DisplayClass1.<LoadImplementation>b__0(IAppBuilder builder)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinAppContext.Initialize(Action`1 startup)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinBuilder.Build(Action`1 startup)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinHttpModule.InitializeBlueprint()
at System.Threading.LazyInitializer.EnsureInitializedCore[T](T& target, Boolean& initialized, Object& syncLock, Func`1 valueFactory)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinHttpModule.Init(HttpApplication context)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.RegisterEventSubscriptionsWithIIS(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context, MethodInfo[] handlers)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.InitSpecial(HttpApplicationState state, MethodInfo[] handlers, IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context)
at System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetSpecialApplicationInstance(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context)
at System.Web.Hosting.PipelineRuntime.InitializeApplication(IntPtr appContext)
Encryption certificate is absent
at Microsoft.Exchange.Security.Authentication.Utility.GetCertificates()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa2.Server.Core.notifications.SignalR.SignalRStartup.Configuration(IAppBuilder app)
Request information:
Request URL: https://localhost:444/owa/exhealth.check
Request path: /owa/exhealth.check
User host address: 127.0.0.1
User:
Is authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Thread information:
Thread ID: 25
Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
at Owin.Loader.DefaultLoader.<>c__DisplayClass12.<MakeDelegate>b__b(IAppBuilder builder)
at Owin.Loader.DefaultLoader.<>c__DisplayClass1.<LoadImplementation>b__0(IAppBuilder builder)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinAppContext.Initialize(Action`1 startup)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinBuilder.Build(Action`1 startup)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinHttpModule.InitializeBlueprint()
at System.Threading.LazyInitializer.EnsureInitializedCore[T](T& target, Boolean& initialized, Object& syncLock, Func`1 valueFactory)
at Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb.OwinHttpModule.Init(HttpApplication context)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.RegisterEventSubscriptionsWithIIS(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context, MethodInfo[] handlers)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.InitSpecial(HttpApplicationState state, MethodInfo[] handlers, IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context)
at System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetSpecialApplicationInstance(IntPtr appContext, HttpContext context)
at System.Web.Hosting.PipelineRuntime.InitializeApplication(IntPtr appContext)
Custom event details:
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After some digging I came across this blog: https://justaucguy.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/exchange-2013-cu6-owa-something-went-wrong/ and https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2017/06/27/exchange-2016-cu6-released/
the first one mentions of replacing the sharedwebconfig, which wasn’t my error but tried it anyway without any change, and the other triggered me with certificates… okay I checked them via the Exchange Management Shell and also there no issues..
Finally I got the bugger in IIS, it appears that a wrong certificate got bound at installation (yeah two clean servers and even some re-runs in other lab setups give me the same) but the solution was to unbound the certificate it had and bind the Microsoft Exchange Server Auth Certificate and do a IISreset.
Problem was instantly solved in my case. (the second blog above mentions that in an upgrade scenario the Microsoft Exchange Auth Certificate could get deleted so beware!!)
See the following reference regarding the binding in IIS:
Hope this helps!