Some time you may need to put the exchange server in maintenance mode, in which one step is to put the servercomponents in inactive state and after the completion of the activity will have to remove the server from maintenance, in which one step is to use the following command in exchange powershell to make the servercomponents back in active state
Set-ServerComponentState <ServerName> -Component ServerWideOffline -State Active -Requester Maintenance
but some time the above command will not work and will still have some components in inactive state, even if try the above command again.
So in that case, you first have to identify requester and then use the command accordingly.
like in below command we are identifying the requester for AutoDiscoverProxy inactive state.
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$Requester = Get-ServerComponentstate -Identity ex1301 -Component AutoDiscoverProxy
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$Requester.LocalStates
Requester State Timestamp Component
--------- ----- --------- ---------
HealthApi Inactive 6/23/2022 9:49:25 AM AutoDiscoverProxy
Maintenance Active 6/23/2022 10:35:04 AM AutoDiscoverProxy
functional Active 6/23/2022 10:33:34 AM AutoDiscoverProxy
We can see that the HealthApi is the Requester for this component. so now we will use the following command.
Set-ServerComponentState Ex1301 -Component AutoDiscoverProxy -State Active -Requester HealthApi
after that, we can check the status of all server components again with following command.
Get-ServerComponentState <ServerName> | ft Component,State –Autosize
and the required components should be in active state.
