Re: access folders on the M: drive

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From: Scott Harding - MS MVP (scrockel_at_**NO_SPAM**hotmail.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 12:52:59 -0700

Typically Domain Admins do NOT have the ability to open other mailboxes
without specifically changing this is Exchange System Manager and it is not
an obvious thing to do. So unless you specifically did this you do not have
the necessary permissions to open other mailboxes. This right is
specifically denied to the person who installed Exchange. But like Mark said
leave the M drive alone. That is the reason that MS removed the M drive from
showing up in Exchange 2k3 because people were backing it up and messing
with it and basically shooting themselves in the foot. Use Outlook to open
other mailboxes as necessary. This is not what the M drive was designed to
do. 

-- 
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server
"Mark Fugatt [MVP]" <news@4mcts.com> wrote in message
news:u033boNREHA.3728@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Mike
>
> First thing, leave the M: drive alone, you should not be playing around in
> it.
>
> Second thing, by default nobody has access to the users mailbox except the
> user, here is an option you might want to look at:
>
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/How_to_get_access_to_all_mailboxes_in_Exchange_2000_Server.html
>
> (url may wrap)
>
> -- 
> Mark Fugatt
> Exchange MVP
> http://www.exchangetrainer.com
> http://www.msexchange.org
> "mike" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:144e801c444d7$efe9c970$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >I recently move my exchange 2000 server to a new box.  I
> > am trying to open the users mailbox folders located on the
> > M: drive but I receive an access denied error.  logged on
> > as domain admin which has all the necessary authority.  I
> > fear something may have been lost in the mailbox moving
> > process.  How do I gain access to these folders?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
>
>

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