I've been having issues with some of my Exchange servers being unable to open the Exchange Management Console. When attempting to make the initial connection to the Exchange Management service on the specified server the following error is given:
The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified Exchange server 'xxxxx':
The attempt to connect to <server FQDN>/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 124275504 milliseconds.
Thanks to
Jason Shave for his elegantly simple solution to this convuluted error:
The server had recently received a new SSL certificate using the Exchange 2010 certificate provisioning and assignment process in the GUI. Unfortunately the IIS service hadn't been restarted yet and the URL used for remote PowerShell was using a certificate which wasn't trusted or valid anymore.
A quick "IISRESET" on the server resulted in my fix.
You can see Jason's original post
here regarding this issue.