Address Book View Permissions Bug???

[Lee Wilmott]

Hello,

I hope someone out there can help me. We have two Exchange Servers both
running Exchange Service Pack 4 with NT Service Pack 6a.

I am trying to delete and re-organise our Address Book Views but I am having
difficulty because of lack of permissions. I have looked at TechNet
articles Q248398 and Q282184 amongst others.

These TechNet articles discuss changes made to Address Book View Permissions
behaviour after installation of MSExch Service Pack 4. The behaviour being
whether or not the Address Book View should inherit the permissions from the
Site Container.

The article states that if you modify the 'Heuristic' bit on the Address
Book View object then you can set whether or not permissions are inherited.

My problem is this, seeing as it is currently set to disallow permission
inheritance (ie. Heuristic bit is not set) and I have no explicit permission
on the Address Book View object then I do not have the adequate permissions
to change this bit, hence presumably permanently stuck!!!

This was not a problem until MSExch Service Pack 4 was installed. As far as
I am aware our MS Exchange Server basically has the default permissions, if
you don't add an explicit user to the Address Book View with 'Permissions
Admin' rights before installing MSExch SP 4 then you'll be stuck like I
am!!!

Does anyone else experience this problem, or know of a way that I can sort
this out?

PLEASE help!

Many thanks in advance.

Lee Wilmott
MCSE
APAK Systems Ltd

(Notice that TechNet Article Q248398 paragraph 5 states "Setting the
heuristic bit to 1 blocks the inheritance..." whereas TechNet Article
Q282184 paragraph 6 states "...if the bit is set to 1, the Address Book
Views object inherits permissions...". Q282184 is a later article so
presumably that is correct. Am I a complete lemon - am I reading this
correctly??)

[Tony]

I don't think your stuck. Try logging into Admin with the Service Account.

--
Tony Woods MCSE, CNA
Microserve.ca
Victoria, BC
Exchange FAQ - http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm

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