Exchange Mailboxes Dead but Alive?

[Regulluz]

Hello all!

I have this issue with Exchange 2003, where it no longer gives me access to any mailbox, but the one configured in Outlook in the server as the administrator account. However, I cannot setup this or any other account in any other computer, nor see it in OWA. If I try OWA this comes up:

"You could not be logged on to Outlook Web Access. Ensure that your user name and password are correct, and then try again."

If I try to setup a mailbox in Outlook, same happens, and also tells me that it cannot open the mailbox because it doesn't exist. However, they are all shown and with mail in the Exchange snap in.

I have SBS2003 running Exchange only. They used to work, but seems like someone played with this. Do you recommend reinstalling Exchange or deleting the mailboxes and recreate them again. I'm not interested in the messages saved there at the moment.

Million thanks for reading!

-Regu

 

[Zelandakh]

This sounds like a permissions issue. Something like the access or read permissions have been removed for Self. Use PFDavAdmin to check and change.

 

[Regulluz]

Hello! Zelandakh!

I used PFDavAdmin and well, I was able to restore access the mailboxes using Outlook... or at least it seems from the Outlook Client installed in the server. I can now open mailboxes from within my Administrator mailbox. However, I still cannot get access to Outlook Web Access. The same things keeps coming up.

Any ideas?

Million thanks!

-Regu

 

[Zelandakh]

You have Outlook installed on the Exchange server?

Yes, I have an idea - uninstall it immediately. Then service pack 2 Exchange then service pack 2 Windows then windows update.

Why did you do that?

Is the problem the same from a workstation?

 

[Regulluz]

Yes. Outlook is installed in the server. It used to work fine anyways and OWA wouldn't work on the workstations either. I was able to setup IMAP accounts on workstations but then I had problem setting up SMTP server.

Anyays, I'll do the Service Pack and see how it goes.

Thanks!

-Regu

 

[xmsre]

Members of domain admins are explicitly denied "send as" and "receive as" permissions.

 

[RichardHuang]

If you don't care the messages on the server right now, why not just reload it? Then you have a brand new machine that you can trust...

 

[Regulluz]

Hello! Its been a long time.

Well, the problem lies with IIS. I don't know how to get it back, but I formatted the server, started from scratch, and wanted to redirect the IIS to a public URL. It affected everything including Exchange. When I set it back to the default settings, the policies were already altered, and that's when everything went bad.

How can I fix this? Do you have an idea?