Topic Last Modified: 2010-01-28

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager monitors the Windows Application log on computers running Exchange 2010 and generates this alert when the events specified in the following Details table are logged.

To learn more about this alert, in Operations Manager, do one or more of the following:

From the Operations Console, double-click this alert, and then click the General tab. Review the description of the alert that includes the variables specific to your environment.
From the Operations Console, double-click this alert, and then click the Alert Context tab. Review the logged events that meet the criteria of this Operations Manager alert.

Details

Product Name	Exchange
Product Version	14.0 (Exchange 2010)
Event ID	12016
Event Source	MSExchangeTransport
Alert Type	Error
Rule Path	Microsoft Exchange Server/Exchange 2010/Common Components/Hub Transport and Edge Transport/Transport
Rule Name	The STARTTLS certificate has expired. The certificate must be renewed to resume mail flow.

Explanation

This Error event indicates that the certificate that was used for Transport Layer Security (TLS) for a specific connector on this computer has expired. The connector name is returned with the Error event.

User Action

To resolve this error, you must use the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet in the Shell to create a new TLS certificate for the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the connector on the computer that returned this Error event. For more information, see the following topic:

New-ExchangeCertificate

For More Information

If you are not already doing so, consider running the Exchange tools created to help you analyze and troubleshoot your Exchange environment. These tools can help make sure that your configuration aligns with Microsoft best practices. They can also help you identify and resolve performance issues, improve mail flow, and better manage disaster recovery scenarios. To run these tools, go to the Toolbox node of the Exchange Management Console. To learn more about these tools, see Managing Tools in the Toolbox.