Symptoms:
Microsoft
Exchange Management Console and shell is taking too long time to open and
sometimes it takes forever.
Cause:
I’ve been
investigating what is happening during the Exchange Management Console or shell
startup that is causing this delay,
Thus I run
the Microsoft Network Monitor to sniff
the traffic and see what is going on,
I noticed a
traffic going to a public IP Address 79.140.95.131 whenever I open the Exchange
Management Console or Shell,
At the END
of the request you will see as circled below .crl which is an acronym for Certificate Revocation List
Seems the
feature of checking the certificate revocation list is the one causing the
delay as the console will wait till the server access the RL and check the
status
More
information about CRL can be found below
Resolution:
I removed
the check mark on both check for “Check for publisher’s certificate revocation”
& “Check for server certificate revocation” from Internet Explorer –>
Tools –> Internet Options –> Advanced tab,
The result is an average of 70 % improvement in the startup time
-
For the Exchange Management Console it improved from an Average of 12 seconds to 4,
- For the
Exchange Management Shell it improved from an Average of 14 seconds to 3.
Note: this
is a security feature and you should disable it only the machine where you are
using Exchange Consoles and not on the Exchange Servers themselves ! so Be Careful
1 comments:
Good information. I think it will be more relevant in Exchange 2013 as it has web based exchange administration console.
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