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Exchange 2010 Management Console "Initialization failed"

I'm migrating from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010. The installation of Exchange Server 2010 is almost complete but stopped me in Exchange Management Console with the error "Initialization Failed". No worries, so I logged in http://TechNet.Microsoft.com forums and search this error. I spent at least 30 to 60 minutes reading all the posts but no success finding solution to my problem. So I called Microsoft Professional Services where I will pay $259 + $15Tax per incident to address this issue.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices (Best Practices (Microsoft))Error "The following error occurred when searching for On-Premises Exchange Server:
[server#.Domain] Connecting to the remote server failed with the following error message:
The WinRM client cannot process the request. It cannot determine the content type of the HTTP response from the destination computer. The content type is absent or invalid. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting help topic"

To make the story short and correct this issue, follow this simple steps.

  1. In Windows Server 2008, InetPub, wwwroot folder, and rename web.config to web1.config. To rebuild the web server config.
  2. In Services, restart IIS Admin Service.
Check it, run Microsoft Exchange Management Console and it should work. You will not see the Initialization Failed error again. If you still having issue, please join this forum for discussion.

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  1. Initialization failed
    The following error occurred whilst searching for the on-premises Exchange Server:
    No Exchange servers are available in any Active Directory sites. You can't connect to remote Powershell on a computer that only has the Management Tools role installed. It was running the command 'Discover-ExchangeServer -UserWIA $true -SuppressError $true -CurrentVersion 'Version 14.1 (Build 218.15)".

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  2. Thanks alot for this. You've saved me a lot of time and trouble.

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