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Bizarre Problem Effecting Only Some Mailboxes - 11.Aug.2008 9:52:47 AM

carpeoccasio

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Let me start by saying I'm new to Exchange 2007. We've been using Lotus Notes for years. I haven't worked with Exchange since version 5. We now have a new Exchange 2007 server and we are in the process of switching over from Notes. Everything is going well except a bizarre problem effecting administrators trying to open mailboxes. I realize that by default administrators are denied the ability to open other mailboxes. I applied the following command to give admins the right -

Get-MailboxDatabase -identity "SERVERNAME\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database" | Add-ADPermission -user USERNAME -AccessRights GenericAll

This worked on approximately two thirds of the mailboxes. As an admin I can open the inbox and other folders. However, for about one third of the mailboxes I get the following error when I try to open them -

Cannot display the folder. The inbox folder cannot be found.

In addition to applying rights to the first storage group I've also tried applying rights to the specific mailboxes with this command -

Add-MailboxPermission "USERS MAILBOX" -AccessRights FullAccess -user "USERNAME"

So far nothing gives me access to that small percentage of mailboxes. If I go to each workstation and share the individual folders that works, but I was looking to make it work the way it did for the other mailboxes. All the effected users are in the global address book. This situation applies to all our administrators and is quite frustrating.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

< Message edited by carpeoccasio -- 11.Aug.2008 10:02:59 AM >