Configuration refresh failed with the following error

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Configuration refresh failed with the following error

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We have Exchange 2019 DAG and notice this messages keep appearing in server manager Manageability. However all nodes are added in all servers area so can we ignore this message?

Configuration refresh failed with the following error: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The computed response packet size (519197) exceeds the maximum envelope size that is allowed (512000). <date> <time>

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Jarvis Sun-MSFT 10,286 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-10-13T07:59:26.5766667+00:00

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Anonymous

2024-01-25T16:45:32.23+00:00

This registry solution worked for me. I had a four node cluster, and as I applied it one by one on each cluster, one of the errors went away until I finished all and all errors like this went away when opening the Server Manager fresh. Thanks!

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Anonymous

2024-01-25T16:45:32.23+00:00

This registry solution worked for me. I had a four node cluster, and as I applied it one by one on each cluster, one of the errors went away until I finished all and all errors like this went away when opening the Server Manager fresh. Thanks!

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Jarvis Sun-MSFT 10,286 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @IT Engineer ,

Welcome to our Q&A forum!

By research, this error message is commonly encountered when attempting to add roles and features to a server.

To resolve this issue, you can try increasing the maximum envelope size of the WS-Management service. You can do this by modifying the registry settings of your server. Launch Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WSMAN\Client. Double-click on maxEnvelopeSize in the right pane, choose Decimal, and change the value to 8192. Then run the command below to check the result:

Get-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\MaxEnvelopeSizekb

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Tom Jensen 0 Reputation points

2023-10-26T16:27:18.4+00:00

worked in my case
Karel Grulich 0 Reputation points

2025-03-10T19:03:05.3666667+00:00

I know this is an old thread so am not sure if anyone will see this, but I have a question why "8192"?

The default is 500kb which is 512000 bytes

Why not 600KB which would be 614400 bytes

That should be enough as most error messages are related to packet size smaller than 600KB.
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Michael LaBonte 0 Reputation points

2026-02-27T21:22:06.0833333+00:00

@Karel Grulich The maximum size is 8192 - you could easily use a smaller size, but moving it to the largest size ensures not having the error anymore.
Johan 0 Reputation points

2026-03-11T08:09:46.4633333+00:00

Default value of maxenvl... is 500 (500kb)
New setting is 8192 (8192kb)

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