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Exchange public calender help

Hi,

A few users have been trying to access a shared calender with no success. When they try to access the calender they get an error that says "Unable to display the folder. The server mailbox cannot be opened because this address book is not a mail user." I have verified that the public folder exists in "public folders" within exchange system mananger 2003 and everyone has access rights to it.

Anyone have any ideas here?

Another note, I can actually view the calender from within exchange system manager.

JexPam

Is there a "HomePage" file specified in the Calendars properties? If so can all users access the path to file identified.

Are all the accounts in the same Microsoft Exchange Server organization? If not this is the root issue and there is no work around without some account moves.

Also Public Folders do not have a permissions inheritance. You will need to specify the access rights directly on the Calendar.

northcide

You CAN recursively set permissions on pub folders. right click on the pub folder, all tasks, manage settings. run through the wizard and as a test add one of those users as a full owner of the folder tree. See if that user can access the calendar.

AzagThothe

ASKER

I dont know if I'm looking in the wrong place. But I am accessing the public folders through Exchange System Manager.

Admin Group > Servers > SERVER > First Storage Group > Public Folder Store > Public Folders

When I right click properties on the folder in question, The only tabs I see are:

General, Replication, Limits, Exchange General, Email Addresses, Exchange Advanced, Details, Permissions, Member Of.

All the accounts appear to be within the same MS Exchange Server Organization.

northcide

nope -

Admin group > Folders > Public Folders

AzagThothe

ASKER

Ok when I go there, right click > all tasks. Manage settings is greyed out =(

northcide

your logged on as a full domain admin?

AzagThothe

ASKER

Manage Settings is greyed out, but if I click on the content tab in the right pane I can actually view the calender. I just need to be able to view it through outlook 03

AzagThothe

ASKER

Yes, I'm logged in as the domain Administrator account.

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Leon Fester

You should look for another account. If installed as per microsoft then your domain admin account will NOT have admin access to the Exchange Server. Check the Exchange Services in Control Panel and see what account is listed for starting the service.

Find or create an account that exists in the Exchange Services group. Once you've got access to the Exchange System, you should be able to manage your permissions from there.

Also, Read up on the isinteg.exe utility. You may have some corruption in your datastore

AzagThothe

ASKER

The domain admin account is a member of the following exchange groups:

Exchange Admins
Exchange Domain Servers
Exchange Services

AzagThothe

ASKER

When I view Advanced Security for Public Folders there are 2 entries of exchange admin, domain admin, enterprise admin, and admin that are being denied "special permissions". It says being inherited from parent object and is being applied to this object and subcontainers. It will not let me remove these deny permissions and when I edit them and grant full control it does not set when I click ok. I don't know what parent object public folders is inheriting permissions from. I can uncheck "allow inheritable permissions" to remove the deny permissions but this does not achieve the effect of opening up "manage settings on my public folders.

I'm getting frustrated with this =(