Configure admin rights to access Exchange 2003 mailbox
Learn how to configure administrator rights to grant permissions to an Exchange 2003 mailbox after receiving an "unable to log onto the server" error.
These details are definitely correct; I used them to do the Active Directory export. What am I missing?
You can expose the security page on Exchange Server through the registry modification called ShowSecurityPage as shown in Figure A.
Figure A: Exchange's Registry Editor displays the registry modification called ShowSecurityPage.
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Once you add this under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftExchangeExadmin and then right-click on Properties in Exchange System Manager (ESM), you will see the screen shown in Figure B.
Figure B: Permissions for administrator rights can be found in ESM under Properties -> Security.
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In Figure B, note that I do not have Deny ticked on the 'Send As' and 'Receive As' permissions for the administrative account.
Double check that your service account is a member of a group that has more restrictive rights as it relates to 'Send As' and 'Receive As' rights.
You'll also want to confirm that you typed in the appropriate port as well: port 389 or 390, depending on the implementation of the Active Directory Connector (ADC). You can use a Windows Support utility called LDP.EXE to attempt to connect to the target organization to see if you are getting similar errors.
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