Attempting to open Exchange Server 2010’s Exchange Management Console throws the error: “Initialization failed – The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified Exchange server ‘exchangeServer.FQDN’: The attempt to connect to http://exchange.domain.com/PowerShell using "Kerberos" authentication failed: Connecting to remote server failed…”

Problem

You attempt to open the Microsoft Exchange On-Premises node in the EMC (Exchange Management Console) but receive the following error:

Initialization failed

The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified Exchange server ‘exchangeServer.FQDN’:

The attempt to connect to http://exchange.domain.com/PowerShell using “Kerberos” authentication failed: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The system load quota of 1000 requests per 2 seconds has been exceeded. Send future requests at a slower rate or raise the system quota. The next request from this user will not be approved for at least 1381355264 milliseconds. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

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Solution

This was the first time I’ve seen this error and while the message is not exactly the same as the one I wrote about in a previous post:

Unable to open Exchange Server 2010’s Exchange Management Console with the error: “The attempt to connect to http://exchange.domain.com/PowerShell using “Kerberos” authentication failed: Connecting to remote server failed…”
http://terenceluk.blogspot.ca/2011/08/unable-to-open-exchange-server-2010s.html

The solution where I restarted the World Wide Web Publishing Service worked:

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3 Responses

  1. Thank you Terence, this worked like a charm for me, you saved my ass, appreciate your help much.