Exchange 2013 - Test-OutlookWebServices to verify four services functionality

Problem Description: At times we need to check if any of the following is having an issue

AUTODISCOVER
EXCHANGE WEB SERVICES
AVAILABILITY SERVICE
OFFLINE ADDRESS BOOK

Those who are familiar with old version of Test-OutlookWebServices might have to watch for few changes in Exchange 2013.

Resolution:

1. By default user can run Test-OutlookWebServices. If you get error message similar to the following that means a user mailbox/test mailbox is not provided.

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Test-OutlookWebServices Unable to find the client accesss monitoring user. Please run C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\New-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1. Exception: Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.MailboxNotFoundException: Failed to find the mailbox. Mailbox = 'extest_1d3bbbbcd5f34@katwal.local'. at Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.CommonTestTasks.GetDefaultTestAccount(ClientAccessContext context) at Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.TestWebServicesTaskBase.GetMonitoringAccount()    
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Test-OutlookWebServices], TestWebServicesTaskException    
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : 5322965D,Microsoft.Exchange.Monitoring.TestOutlookWebServicesTask    
+ PSComputerName : exchange2013.katwal.local

 You can create a test user using the PS script mentioned in the error message above. Following are steps:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>cd $exscripts
[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\scripts>.\new-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1

Please enter a temporary secure password for creating test users. For security purposes, the password will be changed regularly and automatically by the system.

Enter password: ***********

Create test user on: EXCHANGE2013.katwal.local
Click CTRL+Break to quit or click Enter to continue.:

UserPrincipalName: extest_1d3bbbbcd5f34@katwal.local WARNING: The command completed successfully but no settings of 'katwal.local/Users/extest_1d3bbbbcd5f34' have been modified.

You can enable the test user for Unified Messaging by running this command with the following optional parameters : [-UM DialPlan -UMExtension ] . Either None or Both must be present.

[PS] C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\scripts>


Now when we will run the Test-OutlookWebServices we should run without issues.


2. Another method is to specify a particular mailbox. Following is an example:

[PS]C:\Windows\System32>Test-OutlookWebServices -identity:rajan@katwal.local -MailboxCredential (Get-Credential)