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 –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!
thank you for this!! solved my problem
Glad to help Gna
thanks…Worked for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to know Moshtagh
Great procedure! Adding to my notes! — Thank you.
Thanks Philip
Thanks for the solution. Worked for me!
Thanks Matthew
Worked like a charm!!!
Thanks Peter.
Thanks a lots, this worked. Great help!!
Thanks GQ
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.
Thanks Chris.
Glad that it helped you Fernando.
Thanks a lot, it worked like a charm!
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.
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 ?