Well after 3 years of being a SysAdmin, I finally had to admit defeat and call Microsoft for tech support. I can't believe how mad I actually am over all of this. I never thought I'd see the day when the internet couldn't provide me with a path to a solution. After 20 hours of attempted solutions this weekend, I had to whip out the Software Assurance contract and use up our "one free incident".
I'm only writing this to clear my head of it and move on. My brain literally hurts.
Background.
Exchange 5.5 Store rolled to 2K, then rolled to 2K3 SP2 on different box over the past 5 years. So teh stores themselves are that old, just upgraded.
SOMEWHERE in all these moves the EFORMS REGISTRY folder (public folder, right click, show system folders) has lost it's DACL. I can't modify the permissions.
The ONLY thing I had to do with our new VoIP rollover was to place a custom .OFT form in the Organizational Forms Library so people could listen to their voicemails through Outlook.
Well I kept getting access denied when attempting publish. Then the Org forms page wouldn't even load because of access denied. Turns out IIS controls the permissions for the EXADMIN Virtual Directory and was trying to authenticate via SSL even though I had it turned off on that directory. Our deafult website houses OWA, EXADMIN, and another special site for Board members only. Naturally I needed to keep SSL enabled for OWA's sake. I got around that and thought I was on the right track, but the facking EFORMS REGISTRY key still listed the DACL as "anonymous missing". I used a KILLER tool called PfDavmin to check my public folder rights. If you're an Admin, GET THIS program. At least it confirmed my suspicions. The true irony is that EVERY SINGLE folder, system public, has a good DACL except for the EFORMS REGISTRY. Too bad that is the ONLY place I can stick this .OFT file to get people's voicemail working. The permissions are corrupt, and I can;t back them out. Even had the CTO get teh master domain admin account password out of the safe so I could try changing the permissions with that. HAHAHA, no dice
So I can't wait to see what the MS Exchange Guru that should be calling me today will do. I hope it's something rediculous, because if it's a checkbox I'm going to kill myself.
Thanks for listening gang...
I'm only writing this to clear my head of it and move on. My brain literally hurts.
Background.
Exchange 5.5 Store rolled to 2K, then rolled to 2K3 SP2 on different box over the past 5 years. So teh stores themselves are that old, just upgraded.
SOMEWHERE in all these moves the EFORMS REGISTRY folder (public folder, right click, show system folders) has lost it's DACL. I can't modify the permissions.
The ONLY thing I had to do with our new VoIP rollover was to place a custom .OFT form in the Organizational Forms Library so people could listen to their voicemails through Outlook.
Well I kept getting access denied when attempting publish. Then the Org forms page wouldn't even load because of access denied. Turns out IIS controls the permissions for the EXADMIN Virtual Directory and was trying to authenticate via SSL even though I had it turned off on that directory. Our deafult website houses OWA, EXADMIN, and another special site for Board members only. Naturally I needed to keep SSL enabled for OWA's sake. I got around that and thought I was on the right track, but the facking EFORMS REGISTRY key still listed the DACL as "anonymous missing". I used a KILLER tool called PfDavmin to check my public folder rights. If you're an Admin, GET THIS program. At least it confirmed my suspicions. The true irony is that EVERY SINGLE folder, system public, has a good DACL except for the EFORMS REGISTRY. Too bad that is the ONLY place I can stick this .OFT file to get people's voicemail working. The permissions are corrupt, and I can;t back them out. Even had the CTO get teh master domain admin account password out of the safe so I could try changing the permissions with that. HAHAHA, no dice
So I can't wait to see what the MS Exchange Guru that should be calling me today will do. I hope it's something rediculous, because if it's a checkbox I'm going to kill myself.
Thanks for listening gang...