i spun up a new VM windows 2008 r8 server. I ran the exchange 2010 setup for the management tools only, no roles. When i finished the install and open the EMC, under Microsoft Exchange On-premises it states "initialization failed". My exchange environment has been running for more than 3 years now. All i'm trying to do is create a new server just for the Exchange Management Console to connect to my pre-existing Exchange 2010 environment. Any ideas on how this EMC can detect the Exchange enviro?

IIS and WWW publishing services have restarted. Registry value NodeStrutureSetting under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\AdminToolshas been deleted but not success. This is not the first server setup like this but i was not the one to do it. Any ideas?

Hi

Did you try a reboot and then try open the console again?

Im curious as to why you didnt install the management tools on your client OS instead of a brand new server?