Re: Strange NDR

First let me say that I take no responsibility if this screws up your entire
system, I'm working from memory and you should try to get independent
confirmation of what I say. I'm serious about this, don't come wining to me
if everything goes bad and you loose everything.

Second, remember this phrase "It pays to be a partner" I had this same
problem and while it took a few messages I would never have solved it
without the MS private newsgroups for partners.

Also, I don't often look at the public groups so you may never hear from me
again, I just happen to be looking for some information which MS calls
"development" in nature and so won't provide on its private groups.

First you need to grant the administrator, or some other account, full
access to all mailboxes. By default administrator, and the admin groups, do
not have this in 2003.

Then you need to download and install the mdbvu32.exe utility from MS.
Make sure that there is an outlook profile for the mailbox requiring repair
on the PC being used. Do not do this on the Exchange server itself. Also
make sure it is either the only profile or Outlook is configured to prompt
for a profile. Outlook should not be running when you start this, when/if
you are prompted for a profile choose the one for the mailbox requiring
repair.

Run this utility logged in as the full access user, on the first window
leave NULL in the dropdown box and check MAPI_EXPLICIT_PROFILE, click OK.

On the next window "MDB Viewer Test Application" select MDB from the tool
bar and choose OpenMessageStore, select Mailbox-<user you want to repair>.

Again click on MDB and this time select Open Root Folder.
In the Child Folders: box double-click IPM_SUBTREE or Inbox, whichever is
there. I'm told this difference depends on if it was a new install or an
upgrade/migration. I have no way of confirming this.

A new window will open, in Child Folders: double-click Inbox.

In this new window in the Associated Messages in Fld: box you will need to
double-click each item one at a time to look into the Folders Properties box
for an entry, and this is where my memory is a bit fuzzy, starting with, I
think, "ELM_". I do remember that you have to scroll the box partway to the
right to see this. Highlight this entry then under Operations available;
select DeleteMessages, now click on the Call Function button.

One hint is that as you open new boxes they stack up, don't loose track and
always click close to move back to the previous box.

I hope this helps


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RC
rcohen_at_cominc_dot_net

The only thing I guaranty about my free advice is that it's mine and it's
free.





"Darren Scully" <dscully@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2AE3BDDA-BBC3-4828-A411-6326E201BB55@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Exchange 2003, Enterprise. Two users: Bob and Tom. Bob is the manager. Tom
is the assistant. Tom used to work for us and he had rights to add and
delete from Bob's calendar. Bob no longer works for us and I have deleted
everything there is about him, his email, his Active Directory account,
etc, etc. Whenever Bob sends out any Calendar invite, the system tries to
send a copy of it to Tom and then Bob gets a NDR. We can not figure out
where in AD, Exchange or Outlook that Bob is still sending a copy of
invites to Tom. This is weird and strange and I hope I have described it
right.


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