Microsoft KB Archive/257407

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Web publishing error message when creating Outlook team folders

Article ID: 257407

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO

• Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q257407

SYMPTOMS

You use the Microsoft Outlook 2000 Team Folders Wizard to create a team folder. When you publish files to the Web server, you experience one of the following symptoms:

• You are prompted for your user name and password.
• You receive the following error message:

  Web Publishing Error:
  Error: occurred during HTTP publishing of Web files. Select OK to try another destination to publish your files to or Cancel to exit the wizard.

CAUSE

This issue occurs if the permissions that are required to publish files to the team folder are configured incorrectly.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, perform the following steps on the computer that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS):

1. In Windows Explorer, locate the InetPub folder.
2. Right-click the folder, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Security tab, and then click Permissions.
4. Click Everyone, click Remove, and then click OK two times.
5. Repeat step 1 to step 4 for the Wwwroot folder. Additionally, if applicable, repeat step 1 to step 4 for the subfolder that you created in the Wwwroot folder to store team folder data.
6. Restart the server.
7. Assign appropriate permissions to users for the InetPub folder and for the Wwwroot folder. Additionally, if applicable, assign appropriate permissions to the subfolder that you created in the Wwwroot folder to store team folder data. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   187506 Required NTFS permissions and user rights for IIS 4.0

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to troubleshoot permissions issues when you use IIS or FrontPage Server Extensions, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

196308 Name and password are not accepted when opening Web

216705 How to set permissions on a FrontPage Web on IIS

224985 How to reset permissions on multiple virtual servers with FrontPage 98 Server Extensions

224147 How to reset permissions using FrontPage 98 Server Extensions

Additional query words: OL2000 XLCN

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