Strange one in Exchange 2016. A Mailbox server was running for a while at a customer, tried to add the server to a DAG but it just failed.

Decided to check a few things and on the Exchange Admin Center (EAC) I noticed it said no roles on the server in question. Launched the Exchange Management Shell and ran the following command:

  • Get-ExchangeServer -Identity <ServerName>

Below also showed that the server had no roles installed:

Exchange 2016: no server roles showing
Exchange 2016: No server roles showing 1

Very very strange indeed, launched the setup from an elevated prompt and installed the mailbox role again without an issue, after that the ServerRole info updated to Mailbox:

Exchange 2016: no server roles showing
Exchange 2016: No server roles showing 2

Hope it helps.

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