Exchange 2007 Installation installed in the same single forest domain as a 2003 Exchange server On completion and launching 2007 Exchange Management Console get this error message Active Directory Server <servername FQDN> is not available. error Message. A local error occurred. it was running command get-recipient -ResultSize '1000' -SortBy 'DisplayName' -RecipientType 'UserMailBox'

Hello, It could be something simple so I would suggest recreate the windows profile first... Delete the windows profile for the user which you are using to open EMC by login as an admin of the system, reboot the system and relogin and check Similar thread is here http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1267732&SiteID=17

To be fair tried that thread and did the removing profile thing to no avail

Try to clear the MMC views, start-> run MMC, in the console window, click file -> options, then go to the Disk Cleanup tab and click delete files. What happens if you create custom management console and open it? References on Exchange 2007 customizing console... Exchange 2007 console tips and tricks http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/20/429233.aspx Creating Custom Exchange 2007 Management Consoles http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/creating-custom-exchange-2007-management-consoles.html Do you get same error if you login with another account on the system orbyopening EMC with another accountusing Run-As? Check on another workstation by installing Exchange 2007 Management Tools. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555841 If none of this works then you may need to checkup the DC health with DCDiag...

Try to clear the MMC views, start-> run MMC, in the console window, click file -> options, then go to the Disk Cleanup tab and click delete files. No joy here What happens if you create custom management console and open it? same error message References on Exchange 2007 customizing console... Exchange 2007 console tips and tricks http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/20/429233.aspx Creating Custom Exchange 2007 Management Consoles http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/creating-custom-exchange-2007-management-consoles.html Do you get same error if you login with another account on the system orbyopening EMC with another accountusing Run-As? yes Check on another workstation by installing Exchange 2007 Management Tools. that cannot open the broken servers exchange http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555841 If none of this works then you may need to checkup the DC health with DCDiag... ran this and got a "failed test DFSREvent" been following a couple of threads about it haven't worked it out yet but I'll keep plugging away,

Hi Jetcard, This is a known issue and we have a hotfix for this: LDAP queries fail for large result sets after security update MS08-003 is applied on a Windows Server 2003-based computerhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/949876 Please install the hotfix and check the result. Thank you, Elvis