Microsoft KB Archive/309090

= XADM: Exchange Administrators Have More Permissions than Expected =

Article ID: 309090

Article Last Modified on 2/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q309090



SYMPTOMS
After you have delegated Exchange Administrator rights at the Administrative Group level to a user, the user with Exchange Administrator rights can change Client permission roles on a public folder that another user has created. The user with Exchange Administrator rights should get a &quot;permission denied&quot; error instead.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

301378 XGEN: How to Obtain the Latest Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack

After you install Service Pack 2, and after you have delegated Exchange Administrator rights at the Administrative Group level to a user, the user with Exchange Administrator rights should not be able change Client permission roles on a public folder that another user has created.

Instead, the user with Exchange Administrator rights should receive the following error message:

Unable to create the required MAPI profile. Please verify that you have sufficient permissions to write to the MAPISVC.INF file.

ID number: c103073a

Exchange System Manager



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 2.

Keywords: kbbug kbexchange2000sp2fix kbnofix KB309090

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