Description:
The Exchange services not able to restart and have the following event logsEvent ID: 10006
Source: MSExchange Mid-Tier Storage
Description: Active Manager Client experienced an AD timeout trying to lookup object '' in 00:01:00.
Event ID: 2142
Source: MSExchangeADTopology
Description: Process Microsoft.Exchange.Directory.TopologyService.exe (PID=) Forest Domain.com. Topology discovery failed, error details. No Minimal Required Number of Suitable Directory Servers Found in Forest Domain.com Site RNS and connected Sites..
Cause:
Misconfiguration of the Active Directory Global Catalog as we have two options in order to make the Active directory work properly with Exchange which is at the same AD site:
Option 1: Have one Global Catalog server for Each site
Option 2: Have all Active Directory servers a Global Catalog
So incase we have four AD in the same site we cannot have only three of them Global Catalog servers.
Resolution:
Make sure you have correct number of the Global Catalog servers at this site