Comments on: Exchange 2010 Management Console Initialization Failed

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:35:59 +0000

Thanks Pim. I was able to sync with the AD and it works fine. Also thanks to Paul for posting all this.

By: Pim

Pim — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:15:28 +0000

Hello Victor,

Just open command line on your server and fire command:
net time /set
Your Exchange servers need to be in sync with AD.
This helped me, may help you as well.

Regards,
Pim

P.S. : Thanks Cunningham for this wonderfull post. It saved my lot of time to find what went wrong

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:15:40 +0000

Hey Paul,
I’m getting a similar error that I can’t seem to find a solution to. I was hoping you could help.
“The following error occured while attempting to connect to the specified server “yada-yada”:
The attempt to connect to “yada-yada/Powershell” using Kerberos authentication failed. Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : Access denied. For more info…”
Any ideas? Would the Time Sync work for this as well?

By: Kathir

Kathir — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:56:01 +0000

This was helpful…Thank you very much………

By: Eric Weintraub

Eric Weintraub — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:15:13 +0000

OMG thank you so much, I was using a test lab with Hyper-V and didnt think to check the time.

By: sarbjit

sarbjit — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:34:17 +0000

this was helpful.
did a net time / set after turning off the Hyper-v time sync. It all worked.

Sarbjit

By: jabarca84

jabarca84 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:13:54 +0000

Hi Paul

Thanks. This solved my problem. Time sync problem.

Regards!!

By: S E

S E — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:45:51 +0000

It really was just a Time setting for the system. When running Exchange in a VM, if you sync the Time of the Guest OS to the ESXi host using VMtools, you need to make sure that the ESXi host time is consistent with the time on the host of the Active Directory too. Best way is to use NTP client on ESXi so they are surely synchronized. Otherwise disable time sync between the host and the guest and make sure everything is within a few minutes of each other. But NTP is really the smartest choice. Once the times are set, you might have to disable then re-enable the time sync in VMtools and all should be fine again.

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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:09:35 +0000

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By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:23:54 +0000

Hi Kevin, you can’t connect to a remote Exchange 2003 server/org with the EMC for Exchange 2010. I believe you will need to run the mailbox move requests via the Exchange Management Shell instead.