Calendar Permissions problem

[julianjp]

Hi,

We are running an Exchange 2000 server with about 50 users, the calendars of certain users have had permissions added for other users to update. However just recently, when users try to access these particular calendars, they now get the message that they do not have permission to view it. I have checked permissions, and they all check out ok, the users have been added as delegates, they have mailbox permissions and calendar permissions.
I even re-did all the permissions from scratch but still no joy.

One thing I had to do a while ago was to re-create the mailbox store and exmerge the users' data back in. So i was wondering whether this would be related.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you.

 

[jsd2003]

When you did the exmerge export, did you check the box in options "associated permissions"? Doing so will confuse the hell out of Exchange. Once it's exported in this manner, I'm not sure if it's possible to import properly.

Assuming everything was done perfectly, recreating the store should not have had an effect on permissions. In fact, I think that would have been the right thing to do.

Verify that nothing is touching your M drive. Not antivirus, not backup software. Nada. If you've got antivirus software running, make sure that it doesn't monitor all filesystems in "real-time" (specific separate setting in Symantec/Norton AV). If anything's been touching the M drive, you're going to need to rebuild again.

 

[AncientWookiee]

(This may not help you at all but...) I think I might have experienced the same problem. In my case, everyone from the server side had permissions to view eachothers calenders, setting meetings, making apointments, and veiwing calanders in the appointment scheduler was working fine. People were still complaining that they couldn't see eachothers calendar "Folder"s. I had to set it locally to enable them to go to (File-Open-Other User's Folder). I enabled this by right clicking on Calendar and choosing (Properties-Permissions) and setting them from there. After that the users didn't have any problems opening eachothers Calendars.

This also comes in handy when a user wants to open another user's Inbox while they are out of office. By following the same directions on the Inbox folder instead of the Calander folder you can access anyone's Inbox that gives you permission without setting up a new account on the machine. (Hope this helps someone.)