“An Error Caused A Change In The Current Set Of Domain Controllers” Error While Launching Exchange 2010 Management Console…

ByRajith Enchiparambil June 29, 2010

While working with Exchange 2010 at a customer site, I came across the error message below while launching the Exchange 2010 Management Console (EMC) and navigating to Recipient Configuration –> Mailbox. An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers. It was running the command “Get-Recipient –PropertySet ConsoleLargeSet –ResultSize ‘1000’ –SortBy DisplayName…

An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers. It was running the command “Get-Recipient –PropertySet ConsoleLargeSet –ResultSize ‘1000’ –SortBy DisplayName –RecipientType “UserMailbox”

AD guys confirmed that one or more domain controllers were decommissioned before I tried launching the EMC. Few GCs were online while I received the error as well. After searching on the internet and finding number of “fixes”, the one that worked for me was to delete the “Exchange Management Console” file from my profile.

The file is located in C:UsersUserAppDataRoamingMicrosoftMMC

After deleting the file, I was able to work with the EMC without any errors!

Rajith Enchiparambil

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GNA says:

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thank you for this!! solved my problem

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1. Rajith Jose Enchiparambil says:
  
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  Glad to help Gna
  
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Moshtagh says:

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thanks…Worked for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  Glad to know Moshtagh
  
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Phillip says:

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Great procedure! Adding to my notes! — Thank you.

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  Thanks Philip
  
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Matthew Moog says:

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Thanks for the solution. Worked for me!

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  Thanks Matthew
  
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Peter says:

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Worked like a charm!!!

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  Thanks Peter.
  
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GQ says:

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Thanks a lots, this worked. Great help!!

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Chris Barnes says:

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This has been bugging me for a while… with me thinking I had a serious problem w/ my Exchange server not reading information from AD correctly. This article was 100% accurate and solved my (non)issue.
Thanks.

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  Thanks Chris.
  
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Rajith Jose Enchiparambil says:

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Glad that it helped you Fernando.

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Fernando says:

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Thanks a lot, it worked like a charm!

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Anonymous says:

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this totally worked for me. I was in the middle of a Blackberry Enterprise Server migration, while issuing the "Get-MailboxDatabase | Add-ADPermission…" which had already been issued, when the command returned a warning and EMC>Recipient Configuration>Mailbox stopped working.

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M.Gamal says:

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I have faced this problem before but with Exchange 2007 Management console . some Googling I found the solutions – the same as yours – but unfortunately I still didn't know the cause !! . Do you ?

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